“CARELESS TALK”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20824, 1 July 1942, Page 3

“ CARELESS TALK”

TOO MUCH IN N.Z. U.S. ADMIRAL’S HINT NATION IN FRONT LINE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, lids-day. “New Zealand is in a hot spot;” suicl Vice-Admiral Ghormley. Com-mander-in-Chief in the South Pacific area, at a press conference in Auckland yesterday. “It is imperative lor the public to understand that, and to guard against giving away information in idle talk that may be of assistance to the enemy,” he said. There was too much careless talk about .the things that people saw and heard. If they would look at a general picture of the war instead of merely at the local picture they would understand this. in describing New Zealand as a hot spot, Rear-Admiral Ghormley said he was not referring to any particular development or recent happening. but .to lend point to the geo-' graphical fact that the Dominion isin the front-line area of the Pacific theatre of war. Rear-Admiral Ghormley would offer no comment in regard to -a story published in the Christian Science Monitor on May 8 stating that he would have supreme command over all land, sea and air forces of .the four Allies in a vast South Pacific area where .the Japanese are expected to attempt to cut the Australian-New Zealand-Ameri-can communication lines. Regarding many other questions submitted, Admiral Ghormley had nothing to say for publication.