WAR'S DURATION

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 161, 10 July 1945, Page 5

WAR'S DURATION

TOWARD END OF 1946

Mac Arthur Quoted By British Air-Vice-Marshal

v> a ™ 6SS "Association—Copyright -ttec. 11.30 a.m. LONDON, July 9. to England by air after ArthnW 01 £ ith Gen eral Macm w the P h J lip P ines ' Air-Vice-rw™i H. v. Satterly said that SfJlSEfl Mac Arthur thought that, th^ g t fr . om a military standpoint th . e Far East would b e over toward the end of 1946. tr.3 e J lera i Mac Arthur is an exw£! y - fine . man and th e most uopressive. American I have met," said Air-Vice-Marshal Satterly. "He ™} v appreciates the desirability of full British and American co-opera-

Air-Vice-Marshal Satterly, who was accompanied by Air-Vice-Marshal A. C. Sharp, arrived in a Liberator, marmed by a picked K-A.F crew. It was the first British aircraft to fly to Manila since the Japanese invasion. The Liberator lett Britain a month ago on a routine flight to India and was sent on to the Philippines to pick up Air-Vice-Marshals Satterly and Sharp. It covered a distance of 25,000 miles and encountered such terrific rainstorms that the paint was beaten off the plane.