HUON PENINSULA
AVAILABLE AS ALLIED SPRINGBOARD Recd. 7 p.m. New York, 30. “The Allies will soon have the whole of the Huon Peninsula, New Guinea, as a springboard for the final assault on New Britain and Rabaul," says the New York Times. “Thanks to oui domination of the air, each step we take by land and sea is longer than the last. The Japanese find that their own tactics of infiltration > and outflanking, applied so successfully in the conquest of their new empire, is now turned against them. They are being rapidly dislodged from strong positions on a scale which steadily widens the Held of their reverses. Strongholds which formerly would have taken months merely to reach are suddenly invested or attacked from the rear by sea-borne troops, supported and supplied from the air.”
The London Evening Standard says: “The war in the Far East has reached a psychological turning point, yet we are still a long way from Tokio, whether by land or sea. It is only an offensive which carries us to the Japanese homeland that will destroy Japanese morale finally and forever."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 233, 2 October 1943, Page 5
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