LONG PACIFIC WAR

Grey River Argus, 26 September 1944, Page 5

LONG PACIFIC WAR

Australia’s Part ANOTHER BIG LOAN LAUNCHED. (Rec. 11.30) CANBERRA, Sept. 25. “The war in the Pacific has still to become an all-out effort and no Allied leader sees an early conclusion of it,” said the Prime Minister, Mr J. Curtin, in a broadcast to-night, when he opened a second Victory Loan of one hundred and sixty million pounds. “The time required for the final ending of the global . war will not be short. I make no bones about that. When the forces of our Allies reach the massive proportions which Mr Churchill and Mr Roosevelt have agreed shall be used in the Pacific against Japan, the strains and the stresses upon this country will be double or treble what they have been. I have told Mr Churchill and Mr Roosevelt of the part which Australia’s fighting forces, on sea, and on land, and in the air will perform, and that has been .accepted. Our fighting forces will go forward, as they have gone forward since the day the war started. The march towards victory will be as stern as was the retreat in the dark days.”