JAPANESE WAR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 150, 28 June 1943, Page 5

JAPANESE WAR

NEW FLANS OF ALLIES HOLDING POL'CV ENDED Rc»cd 6 p.m. New York, June 26. There is in high Allied quarters, a new sense of importance of the Japanese war, says Joseph Harsch Ln the Christian Science Monitor. Ahis ' change has come partly from a basic transfunnation of the European situa- , tion, paitly from a growing feeling of danger of letting Japan go unchallenged too long. i Out of this combination has emerg- ; ed a strategic plan lor the Far East 1 which does not challenge the priority of Germany as the enemy to be first defeated, but which elevates Japan almost lo parity with Germany as an enemy wnich must be vigorously challenged at an early date. Harsch says that it is now possible to approach the Japanese problem with the weapons which are now available or will become available < within the next six months. What is coming may still be long delayed, out it is definitely no longer a picture ol merely having a holding front from Attu around the long Pacific arc to India. U.S. AIR_ACTIVITY Reed. 7 p.m. Rugby, June 26. The United States Navy Department says:—On June 24 Wildcat lighters strafed a Japanese barge . south-east of Vangunu Island, in tne New Georgian group, and yesterday four Japanese bombers unsuccessfully attacked a United States light surface unit in the Solomons. Also on June . 24, Liberators. Mitchells and Venturas attacked Japanese installations on Kiska, but due to poor visibility results could not be observed. United States patrols killed 15 more Japanese on Attu. —8.0.W.