CONTROL OF SEA
VITAL TO BRITAIN
Lesson Of Japanese Loss Of Communications N.Z. Press Association —Copyright Rec. 10 a.m. LONDON, June 22. "Japan is now in the same position as we would have been if we had failed to keep control of the sea," said the First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham, in a speech at Edinburgh. • - • He said it was only by severing sea communications that the enemy could have hoped to win. Merchant shipping became the direct objective of the heaviest attacks. Britishers had an underlying knowledge of the meaning of sea power, but it took the, war to convince them that it was the basis of their existence. Japan, like Britain, depended on sea communications. For a short timeafter Pearl Harbour they wielded unrestricted sea power, but the Allies, slowly but surely, wrested it from them. "We are deploying pur forces eastward," he added. "Although much hard and bitter fighting lies ahead the end is sure and Japan will be forced into unconditional surrender." .
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 147, 23 June 1945, Page 5
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