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AS GARRISON

MacARTHUR'S FORCE

Hint Of Future Developments

In The Pacific

S N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 12.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Sep. 26. General Mac Arthur's South-west Pacific command will probably, within six months, be reduced to the status of a garrison holding recaptured territories, while drives from other directions aim at the East Indies and the Philippines, writes Lewis Sebring in the New York Herald-Tribune. The realisation of this impending situation undoubtedly prompted General MacArthur's statement implying that his ideas of Pacific strategy would not govern future operations. The correspondent points out that virtually the entire operational activity of General Mac Arthur's command is now concentrated in the north-east of Australia, while American forces are consolidating positions in the Solomons. Obviously all these forces must converge on New Britain, Bougainville and New Ireland. The recently created Central Pacific Command, under LieutenantGeneral Richardson, at Hawaii, gives a hint of where the land forces for the area north of New Guinea might come from. Mr. Sebring suggests that it might take a considerable time for General Mac Arthur to clean up New Guinea. Beyond that is where the rub comes in, he states. General Mac Arthur would like to push on to the Philippines, but it is conceivable that by that time plans would call for some other to undertake this assignment. "Other" might be Lord Louis Mountbatten moving eastwards from India, or American naval forces moving west through the Pacific. In either case it seems almost certain that General Mac Arthur's command would end at the Equator on the north and slightly past the western tip of New Guinea on the west. How this will effect the continued use of Australia as a great Allied base remains a question, but with the South-west Pacific command being confined to these limits its use as sucn would seem virtually ended. "TREACHERY" IN FRANCE FEARS OF MARCEL DEAT Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 26. "There is a vast army of French terrorists ready to take up arms when the Allied signal is given," said Marcel Deat, President of the National Popular party, addressing French Fascists.

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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 27 September 1943, Page 5

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AS GARRISON Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 27 September 1943, Page 5

AS GARRISON Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 27 September 1943, Page 5

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