DOMINIONS’ SHARE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21384, 20 April 1944, Page 4

DOMINIONS’ SHARE

SOUTH PACIFIC WAR GREATER THAN AMERICA TRIBUTE TO A.I.F. MEN (10.30 a.m.) NEW YORY, April 19. “Australians and New Zealanders have contributed a greater percentage of men to the armed services' and, perhaps, more effort per capita than the United States,” lays Mr. Hijmson Baldwin in-an article in the ; New York Times. “The recent decision ill Australia to cut the army strength should hot be interpreted As a slackening of Australia’s war effort. Although Australia may have been saved primarily by the United States forces, the Australian ground forces ■bore the brunt of all the early fighting in New Guinea and are still ■carrying a large share, probably the major -share of the ground burden thefe. The Australian military forces Under General Sir Thomas Blarney have done splendid service in; New Guinea.” .Mr. Baldwin said that at least one of . the stories published in America saddling Rear Admiral Crutchley with the loss of -four cruisers off Guadalcanar -on August 8, 1942, was partially unjust as, at the time of the loss, Admiral V: A. C. Crutchley was attending -a conference many miles from the scene of the action.