DOOM SEALED

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 21981, 9 March 1943, Page 4

DOOM SEALED

JAPANESE fIVNQSTERS

NEW WOVE PROBABLE

ATTACKS ON AIR BASES (United Press Assn. —El*a. Tel. Copyright) (Received Marca 9, 3.15 p.m.) New York. March 8 The Japanese, in keeping with their character as military gangsters may again attempt, and even more desperately. to stave off their inevitable eventual defeat in the Pacific, says the New York Times. Irrespective of the'* cost they may try to capture all bases from which Allied air attacks can be launched. This would even mean a drive against Australia and the entire China coastal area and the Siberia. “The Japanese concentrations to the north of Australia and the Japanese drives in China, therefore, cannot be overlooked,” the paper says. “To survive Japan must take these bases to safeguard her vaunted invulnerability. A decision must be taken this year—but we do not doubt the outcome.” The New York Times says that if Japanese air power is waning, as it appears to be, then Japan’s doom is sealed. ‘‘There are indications that the war lords’ dream of victory are fading even 'n their own warped minis,” it adds. “Tokio has not dared to announce the wiping out of the Japanese convoy in the Bismarck Sea last week, but the Far Eastern grapevine can be depended on to spread the news. It will raise the spectre of Allied air armadas over ‘the land of the gods,’ and will fill the primitive Japanese mind with terror of the unknown.” Japan's Serious Mistake The London Timer stresses that if » flood of Japanese aggression has been halted it has not yet been turned back. “The Allies have a huge task ahead but they are not likely to repeat their original under-estimate of the Japanese fighting capacity,” says the paper. “The Japanese, however, made an even more serious mistake m launching the war. ' What they failed to measure was the Allied capacity for recovery. They are new committed to a long war against outlast” Whom they cannot hope to