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Show i Eplanation Gen. Sir Thomas Blarney, commander com-mander of Allied land forces in the Southwest Pacific, says that it was strengthening of our naval force, both in warships and landing land-ing craft, which made the as-sualt as-sualt on the Japanese base at Lae possible. Incidentally, it is the weakening weaken-ing of Japanese strength, in these particulars, that has weakened weak-ened the entire Japanese position in the same area. The island empire will collapse when Japanese Jap-anese sea power fails and there are Indications that it is already severely strained. |