LESSONS NOT LEARNED
MALAYAN CAMPAIGN GEN. PERCIVAL’S COMMENT (11 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 26. The lessons on the Malayan campaign had not been learned, said General A. E. Percival, in an interview at his home in Hertfordshire with a Reuter correspondent. “The same thing is happening again. The result is that the other Powers tend to become more aggressive. In modern times one has to organise one's country for war.” Recalling the Malayan campaign, General Percival said that many Indian troops had not seen a tank when the war began. There was at least one divisional commander who had not done so. The same applied to most Australian troops. Since completing his despatch, he had learned of an authentic Japanese document in American hands which showed Japanese superiority in strength in Malaya even greater than he estimated. They probably had 200,000 troops there.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22572, 27 February 1948, Page 5
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