DUTCH ASSURANCE
FIGHT TO LAST MAN
(Rec. 9 a.m.)
SYDNEY, Feb. 18
The policy of constant retirements to "prepared positions" could lead to the Allies losing the war, declared Dr. H. Van Mook, Lieutenant-Governor-Gen-eral of the Dutch East Indies, at a Press conference with Australian and American journalists today.
The democracies, he added, must cease to think in terms of defence; rather must they search out the enemy and fight him.
If Java fell, Japan would probably turn northward against Russia and India, but Australia, he emphasised, could depend upon it that it would be dealt with later.
Dr. Van Mook assured the Pressmen that the Netherlands East Indies would resist the Japanese to the last man, and would fight on, even if the position seemed hopeless and even if help did hot come.
They had accepted the possibility that they might have to fight alone.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 7
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