PACIFIC STRATEGY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24855, 3 March 1942, Page 4

PACIFIC STRATEGY

DOMINION MINISTERS IN AUSTRALIA FUTURE CONDUCT OF WAR (P.A.) Mar. 2.Referring this afternoon to the visit of the Minister of Supply, Mr D. G. Sullivan, and Mr J. G. Coates, a member of the War Cabinet, to Australia, the Prime Minister, Mr ■ Fraser, said they had attended meetings, of the Commonwealth Advisory War Council and the War Cabinet, both at Canberra, and Melbourne, and had been discuss-' ing matters of first-rank importance in ' connection with strategy ip the Pacific. They were in continuous communication with the New Zealand War Cabinet. Discussions had taken place, Mr Fraser said, on how to make Allied action in the Pacific as effective as possible both in regard to the defence of New Zealand and Australia, as well as in regard to the organisation of the Allied forces for regaining what had been lost. NEW ARRANGEMENTS OUTCOME OF DISCUSSIONS MELBOURNE, Mar. 1. Ministers who attended the Wap Council said it can be assumed that, following communications with New Zealand, there will be consultations with the United States and British Governments, both of which have direct interests in the arrangements to be made now that the Japanese ad- , vances have made out of sate the A.B.D.A. and Anzac area arrangements reached in the early stages of, the Pa- , cific war. The War Council is bent on obtaining the best strategic machinery possible for the efficient working of the South Pacific war effort of the United Nations.