WAR AGAINST JAPAN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25172, 12 March 1943, Page 3

WAR AGAINST JAPAN

LONG ROAD TO VICTORY NEW YORK, Mar. 10. “America, not Australia and New Zealand, must bear the brunt of the war against Jgpan,” says Mr Hallett Abend, an expert on Far Eastern affairs. “ The valiant dominioris have virtually exhausted, their man-power resources. They cannot be expected to increase materially the size of their armies. The dominions have been at war since September, 1939, and we will have to put into the field almost 11,000,000 men before we have made a man-power sacrifice equal to what Australia made before Pearl Harbour.” Mr Abend sees the Chinese Army as the only hope of important man-power assistance against Japan. “China will furnish an unlimited reservoir of fighting men once the United Nations make contact with her on the continent of Asia,” says Mr Abend, who stresses the difficulty of getting, to China the thousands of planes which will be necessary to bomb Japan effectively. “We must steel our hearts to the sacrifices which a long war will demand,” he declares. “There is no short, easy road to victory in the Far-East.”