THE ORIGINAL PLAN
DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA
(Special P.A. Correspondent.) (Rec. 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 3. When General MaeArthur arrived in Australia a year ago the existing military plan for defence of Australia against the forces of Japan was to make a stand behind the "Brisbane Line." The Commonwealth's Labour Minister, Mr. E. J. Ward, has now revealed that this line ran diagonally from just north of Brisbane to a point just north of Adelaide. On March 17 last General MacArthur said that the Australian war strategy had been drastically revised after he had taken command of the South-west Pacific front. The defence plan at the time of his arrival had conceived that the islands to the north of Australia would be overrun and lost, and that Darwin and North Queensland would be also overrun. Provision had been made for organised resistance behind a line drawn south-west from Brisbane.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 103, 3 May 1943, Page 5
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