ATTACK SOON?

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 56, 7 March 1942, Page 8

ATTACK SOON?

AUSTRALIA'S PERIL

"We Must Act Like Lightning

And Smash : It! ,,

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SYDNEY. March 6. mn^rV he T ri f k , of being called a scaremonger, I declare that an attack is n? MZ ery <* uickl y- It is a matter of not months," said the t£ me 2" G , en f ral Officer Commanding the Australian troops in Malaya Major-General Gordon Bennett, in aA interview in Sydney to-day. "It is our duty," he said, "to tackle our problems feverishly. We must act like lightning and smash into it , "

General Bennett, who is very fami♦i? r Vlth Ja P an ese tactics, has given the Australian Government valuable information. He said the enemy was using exactly the same methods jnjava as were employed in Malaya These of course," he said, "were w ll from thei r German masters, who used them in the war on Holland, Belgium and Norwav. We are bound to assume that the Japanese will employ them in their attack on Australia. I have not the slightest doubt that any Japanese attempt to land in Australia will be defeated."

Japanese bombers made heaw attacks on Bulolo and Lae, in New Guinea, to-dav.

A. proclamation issued in Canberra to-day calls upon all men up to 60 years of age to register. Former calling-up covered single men and widowers up to the age of 45 and married men to 35 years. To-day's proclamation brings in men between the ages of 45 and 60 years.