PHILIPPINES FALL PREDICTED
AUSTRALIAN MINISTER OPTIMISTIC BRISBANE, Sept. 18. A prediction that the Philippines would fall soon was made by the Minister for the Army (Mr F. M. Forde), at the opening of the Cairncross graving dock. .. , Though not so large as the dock nearly completed in Sydney, the new Brisbane dock is the largest dry dock now available to the Allied forces in the Southern Hemisphere. Constructed at a cost of £1,000,000. the dock becomes the properly of under agreement with the Commonwealth Government, which provided £425,000 towards the work. Mr Forde said the dock was opened in good time, for the part it was designed to play in the great naval and military operations which would end in the complete defeat; of ese The United States Navy, the Royal Australian Navy, and important detachments of. the.British Navy would fight side by side in the navalbattles ■that would take place north of Aus tralia. . --
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24366, 19 September 1944, Page 3
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