“EVIL BRILLIANCY.”

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 87, 23 January 1942, Page 3

“EVIL BRILLIANCY.”

JAPANS SUDDEN ATTACKS COUNTER-MOVES SUGGESTED LONDON, Dec. 29. Speculating how the “evil brilliancy of the Japanese blitzkreig can be cured,” Mr J. L. Garvin asks in the “Observer” whether if Russia assumes military responsibility for the Caucasus' thereby liberating Imperial forces, we can attack by land across India, Burma and Thailand, or whether by keeping the Burma Road open we can supply Chiang Kai-shek with sufficient aeroplanes and guns to take the offensive.

“But the quintessential thing,” he says, “is sufficient British ancl American air reinforcements, which should before long wrest mastery of the allover Malaya from the Japanese, as we cannot secure mastery of the surrounding seas.” The aviation correspondent of the “Sunday Times” stresses the gravity of a situation in which 100 Japanese transports are able in immunity to disembark troops into the Philippines, because Allied reconnaissance aeroplanes are not available. “Their presence should have revealed the fleet before it sailed after which a few squadrons of torpedo-bombers protected by fighters, could have created havoc "among the transports, he observes.