ATTACK ON AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 56, 7 March 1942, Page 7

ATTACK ON AUSTRALIA

GENERAL'S WARNING

(Rec. 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 6. "At the risk of being called a scaremonger, I declare that, an attack is coming very quickly. It is a matter of weeks, not months," declared the former G.O.C. the Australian troops in Malaya, Major-General Gordon Bennett, in an interview here. "Today it is our duty to tackle our problems feverishly. We must act like lightning and smash into it."

Major-General Bennett, who is most familiar with the Japanese tactics, has given the Australian Government valuable information. He said that the enemy was using exactly the same methods in Java as were employed in Malaya. "These, of course, were taken from their German masters, who used them in the war on Holland, Belgium, and Norway," he said. "We are bound to assume that the Japanese will employ them in an attack on Australia." A proclamation issued in Canberra today calls upon all men up to 60 years of, age to' register. Former callups have covered single men and widowers to the age of 45, and married men up to 35. . Today's proclamation brings in men between the ages of 45 and 60.