Organisation Under Way

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 6, 8 January 1942, Page 7

Organisation Under Way

1 , LONDON, January 7. The first news of the British Fleet in the Far East for some time comes in an official message from Singapore today. This says that ViceAdmiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, Commander-in- ; Chief of the Eastern Fleet, has left Singapore to his fleet so that, in the words of the announcement, "the Allies may gain sea supremacy in the Far East as soon as possible." On the Malayan front it is now known that the Japanese, supported by armoured fighting vehicles, nave made some penetration of the Imperial line in Lower Perak. There-has been considerable air activity in this area. On the east coast of Malaya, British forces in Pahang, the east coast region, are still withdrawing according to plan. In London it is authoritatively enemy troops which landed at the ■||^^^^hPlmP|"%^>,' "■"?■ w^^^k covered with mangroves and lank HH^^Hjj^HHßK^i^-^^B^ Still further south, Japanese attempts to outflank the Imperial lines in the S^^^H^^NC^^HHHPIIPIIN cessfully held. In London today, .Sir Earle Page, Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Laytc Australia's special envoy to Britain, said: "We must preserve Singapore and London was to find a workable S( . , ■ _f * , „ tion of the difficulties of contmu [our position in the Far East at all consultat ion between Australia ; costs." Britain about the general conduct He added that one of his duties in the war. . .

London was to find a workable solution of the difficulties of continuous consultation between Australia and Britain about the general conduct of the war. . .