BRITISH SATISFACTION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 10 April 1945, Page 5

BRITISH SATISFACTION

U.S. CHIEFS IN PACIFIC New York, Apl. 7. A high British official said the appointments of General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz as combined commanders in the Pacific, were entire* satisfactory to Britain, reports the "HeraldTribune” Washington correspondent. The climactic campaign against Japan proper will be directed by American strategy and command, but this does not affect the British determination to send every available man, ship and plane to the Pacific after European victory. The present Allied strategy also calls for Admiral Mountbatten to continue as Commahder-in-Chief of SouthEast Asia with Malaya, Sumatra, Java. Thailand and probably Indo-£hina and Borneo, included in the command. It is not anticipated that a Supreme Allied Command of the Pacific, as in west Europe, will be established. It is thought that if Russia declares war against Japan, the Russians will retain command of her own Pacific forces, converting the war into a three-front affair with the Russians operating from Siberia, and the Americans moving in from the Philippines and Central Pacific and the British mopping up in South-East Asia and the Netherlands Indies.