REGARDLESS OF COST

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22009, 10 April 1943, Page 5

REGARDLESS OF COST

ATTACKS BY JAPANESE (United Press Assn.— tiec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, April 9 The big aerial battle, in which 37 Japanese planes were shot down over Guadalcanar, was the climax to two days of exceptional activity by both sides. “This large-scale Japanese raid on Guadalcanar shipping aparently is an indication of tne enemy’s dogged determination to continue attempts to harass and punish the American forces in the Pacific regardless of cost,” comments the Washington correspondent of the New York Times. “In spite of the loss of many hundreds of planes and tremendous losses of shipping and troops in both Admiral Halsey’s and General MacArthur's territories, the Japanese are continually reinforcing their 3ir strength and boring in for attempted blows, which thus far have ended disastrously. “After the fall of Guadalcanar the Japanese seemed deficient in bomber strength, but the latest raid indicates that this arm also has been reinforced. The Secretary of War, Mr H. L. Stimson, and the Secretary of the Navy, Colonel W. F. Knox, recently gave warning of the growing Japanese strength in the Pacific, but the result of this raid shows that the American forces also have been strengthened.”