THREE-YEAR ESTIMATE
DURATION OF WAR IN
THE PACIFIC
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) •SYDNEY, March 31.
"It is a grim, momentous, and grievous truth that nothing has emerged more clearly from our recent fighting in the Pacific than that the war for Australia, "the East Indies, and New Zealand will be not only completely exacting, but long. It stretches without possible deviation for three years —probably four—and beyond." This estimate of the duration of the Pacific war was made by Sir Keith Murdoch, chairman of directors of the Melbourne "Herald" Company, who added that the severely critical Australian phase of the war, with the Japanese pressing through the islands, must in itself be a long affair. "Events, too, have proved that this phase of the war is merely initiatory, and cannot be decisive," he said. "The Japanese have established almost 40 bases in the South-west Pacific area alone. Many of them have two or three aerodromes. In a trice they could be filled with aeroplanes from inner supply depots; storm troops placed not so far away could appear at them, and their capacity would be great indeed."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 77, 1 April 1943, Page 5
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188THREE-YEAR ESTIMATE Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 77, 1 April 1943, Page 5
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