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Show rsons by overwhelming assaults on the land. BLOCKADE DOOMS JAP OUTPOSTS , The plight of the Japanese forces forc-es in the Southwest Pacific is adequately ade-quately described in a special statement issued by Gen. MacAr-thur, MacAr-thur, who says the enemy is "cut off and surrounded in New Guinea, Guin-ea, New Britain, New Ireland and the Solomons." This result is due, in part, to the destruction of hundreds of enemy vessels. Some of the Japanese ships have been bombed, others sunk by gunfire and our submarines subma-rines have contributed many heavy hea-vy blows against enemy shipping. The situation in the Southwest Pacific is due, in large degree, to the rapid expansion of the U. S. Navy. Whereas the enemy had ample naval superiority in the early days of the war to protect vital shipping, the American fleet has successfully assumed control of decisive waters. This imeans that neither supplies nor reinforcements rein-forcements can be gotten through in sufficient volume to succor isolated iso-lated Japanese garrisons. In this situation, there is little necessity for any large scale land operations against the ' trapped foe. Left alone, enemy soldiers will be compelled eventually to starve or surrender. The process of isolating and starving costs fewer American lives than an effort ef-fort to crush the beleaguered gar- |