PREMIER'S ANSWER
SIR E. PAGE’S CRITICISM "UNSOUND & MISLEADING” ' ‘ ' CANBERRA, March 14. “The statements' by Sir Efu'le, Page were unsound and misleading, said the Prime Minister, Mr. J-. Curtin. Sir Earle Page,' who was appointed to me Australian Advisory War Council three weeks ago, criticised the High Command for the conduct of the Kokoda trail and Buna-Gona campaigns'in New ‘Guinea. He said that the Allies had suffered heqyy casualties because of faulty tactics. MrV Curtin replied that such an opinion was not based on a complete knowledge of the facts. In no campaign in this war had there been such an unbroken run of successes at so little cost as in' New Guinea. The" Prime Minister said lie had nothing to add to his recent statement in Parliament on the satisfaction of the Government with the organisation of 'the High Command and the manner "in'which General Sir Thomas Blarney had' discharged the duty of commander-in-chief.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21354, 15 March 1944, Page 4
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