RADIO SETS LACKING
BRITISH WEAKNESS
(Rec. 2 p.m.) BATAVIA, Feb._ 16. . The Australian Broadcasting Commission's war correspondent, who has arrived at Batavia from . Singapore, says: "In the final stages of the attack the Japanese disrupted the British • communications. It was impossible to ' know what was happening in the im\mediate neighbourhood. "Despite Greece and Crete, where /the' same thing happened, there.were .' no mobile field wireless stations. Yards •of wire, strung between trees, could ■be destroyed by a single bomb, and the safety of whole battalions was eni dangered. "Whole parties were cut off from ;• their units, which had to withdraw j '. from untenable positions."
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 40, 17 February 1942, Page 6
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103RADIO SETS LACKING Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 40, 17 February 1942, Page 6
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