FORTIFIED LINES
IN INTERIOR OF JAVA
PROBLEM FOR ENEMY
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
(Rec. 9.30 a.m.)' j BANDOENG, February 26.
In the interior of Java there are fortified positions which look as though they would be very difficult to overcome, writes H. R. Knickerbocker, the "Chicago Sun" correspondent in Java,
Experts who have just arrived in Java from the Malay Peninsula say that nowhere else have the Japanese had to. face such carefully and scientifically arranged defences.
There are lines and complexes of lines, vast quantities of barbed wire, and deep tank pits.
Above all tower formidable volcanoes, black and forbidding. It is over these mountains that the Japanese will have to come for their ultimate battle.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1942, Page 5
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