BOTH REINFORCED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1943, Page 5

BOTH REINFORCED

MACARTHUR & HALSEY

<By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Rec. 12.30 p.m.)' SYDNEY, January 23. Constantine Brown, the Washington "Star" columnist, says that General Mac Arthur, as well as Admiral Halsey, has received recent reinforcements, but that these are merely sufficient for a continuation of the "offensive defensive." This strategy, presumably, will continue until the Axis is smashed in Europe. Meantime, American war observers are awaiting the news of one of the South Pacific's "characteristically brief but brilliant" flare-ups. Further Japanese attacks on the American-held Solomons are being generally prophesied. "We shall defeat Japan when the air hand from China, and naval hand from the Pacific, reach out and take her by the throat," said Mr. R. G. Menzies. "When that time comes Japan's nerveless fingers will fall weakly away from Malaya, from the Phillipines, from the Netherlands East Indies, and their gropings towards Australia will cease. "Burma must be recaptured, the gateway to China reopened, and an attack on a grand scale developed as near possible to China—Japan's frontier."