NEWLY PREPARED
ENEMY IN PACIFIC
(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyrioht.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, July 28. "Japan has consolidated its forces in the south-west Pacific anew since the Coral Sea and Midway battles, and Australians must conform with the requirements of a nation in deadly peril," declared the Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin,, " today.- ""•"'{■[" '■'■'[ V '-■-•• .-.
; "I tell the Australian nation in the coldest and most plain-terms that it can thank its fighting forces and "those of our Allies for the state of affairs that exists today in this Commonwealth, in which so many of our people can live without fearing an enemy in the night." Commenting on a Tokio report of sinkings in Australian waters, Mr. Curtin said, "What Tokio says in respect to the war is what an enemy would say. The Allied:Headquarters tell the public how ,the war is going." While Japan was its forces Australia had not been idle, but the Government would not be satisfied till it had achieved the absolute 'maximum.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1942, Page 5
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164NEWLY PREPARED Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1942, Page 5
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