TWO WEEKS AT MOST
ESTIMATE OF JAVA'S
LIFE
SYDNEY, March 5. "I give Java two weeks of life at the most." This view was expressed by the "Daily Telegraph's" war correspondent, Mr. Tom Fairhall, who has returned to Sydney. Mr. Fairhall declared: "The Dutch will fight on to the end. They may he able to retreat to the hills and turn parts of the country into 'Little Philippines.' [ Their grand airmen will fly their obsolete planes till they cannot take them off the ground." "The Allied command in Java achieved little. According to Dr. Van Mook (the Lieutenant-Governor-Gene-ral of the Netherlands East Indies), the complicated command was superimposed on the Dutch, command, and
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1942, Page 7
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113TWO WEEKS AT MOST Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1942, Page 7
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