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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 204, 30 August 1943, Page 5

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WAR IN THE PACIFIC “AMERICA MUST WADE IN AND TEAR JAPAN APART” (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Recd. 6 p.m. New York, Aug. 27. “We must carry the war to Japan. We must wade in and tear her apart. Japan is our mortal foe.” This declarlion was made by Lieut.Genera! Dewitt at an Aleutians base after he returned from an inspection of Attu. He added: ‘Japan has had a year to pour concrete into the gun positions which cover all the beach landings. She is training armies ot conquered people. She is pillaging the richest empire in the. world to make guns to fight us. “To-day we have only Japan to fight. If we wait for Japan to organise the countries she has over-run we will be fighting the heaviest man-powered nation in the world.

“We must not give Japan a chance to instil her doctrines into the conquered peoples. We must not let her dip deeper into the rich treasures she has won. Urging the need for dose bember bases, General Dewitt said bombing could not be successfully done by planes based 750 miles from their target. One bomber base within 250 miles was worth five 750 miles away. Also referring to the war in the North Pacific, Vice-Admiral Greensladv, Commandant of the San Francisco Naval District, said that Paramushir could become Japan's Sicily. He expressed the opinion that Japan’s industry and transport wore not geared up sufficiently to maintain a balance with the Allied gain in material forces. The war, he added, was far from won. but when it was a special penalty must be devised fit for a nation that “thinks, acts, kills, and dies on masse like the monstrous man who very nearly had us in his grasp.”