GREAT SEA BATTLES

Evening Star, Issue 25173, 12 May 1944, Page 3

GREAT SEA BATTLES

COMING CLASH WITH JAPANESE NAVY BRITISH FLEET TO MOVE EAST AFTER GERMANY DEFEATED (Rec. noon.) LONDON, May 11. " We are eating away against the Japanese strongholds now, and are doing a fine joib, but that is not the way the Pacific war will be won," said Admiral Sir William James, Chief of Naval Information. " After the defeat of Germany we shall move the Fleet to the East. With the combined vast resources of the British and American navies I cannot see how the Pacific war will not be won sooner than many people think. It will be a great maritime war.. There will be battle fleet action similar to the last war. It will also be a great aircraft carrier war." A message from Washington states: " Only half- the United States army's f round forces will bo needed to defeat apan after Germany's collapse," asserted Mr Harold Moulton, head ot Brookings Institute, which conducts fact finding inquiries for United States busi.ness concerns. He told the Senate's Post-war Planning Committee that he based his estimate of the ground forces needed to beat Japan on the assumption that the United States armed forces would total 11,000,000. He added that he believed that Germany's collapse would come at the end of this year and that " the war in the Orient will be over in 1945."