BLOWS IN PACIFIC
NAVAL BATTLE PREDICTED NEW YORK, Nov. 24 “The invasion of the Gilbert Islands constitutes a threat to the Marshall Islands and presages a ; really decisive battle of the fleets, in > which the Imperial Navy is seeking to demonstrate its invincibility,” said the Tckic official radio. “In the present counter-offensive America is trying to advance in the Central Pacific by making the Gilberts a second Guadalcanal “The strategic significance of the counter-offensive is extremely great in view of the fact that the Gilbert Islands are adjacent to our mandated territory, the Marshall Islands. Indeed, the entire area of the socalled inner South Seas, on whose eastern side lies Jaluit Island, is the Navy’s immovable strategic sphere and its largest area of operations.
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Waikato Times, Volume 193, Issue 22204, 25 November 1943, Page 5
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124BLOWS IN PACIFIC Waikato Times, Volume 193, Issue 22204, 25 November 1943, Page 5
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