MR CURTIN CONCERNED

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXII, Issue 15239, 4 January 1943, Page 2

MR CURTIN CONCERNED

THE PACIFIC SITUATION. United Press Assn— By Electric Telegi aph—Copy right. SYDNEY, January 1. From 400 to 500. more warplanes in the South-west Pacific would quicken tremendously the Allied offensive against Japan. An appeal for the immediate diversion of a greater proportion of the United Nation’s naval, air and land strengths to the Pacific war zone is believed to lie behind the public statement by the Australian Prime Minister, Afr Curtin, in which he pointed out the dangers of allowing Japan to consolidate her new empire. Recently. the flow of urgentlyneeded supplies to this theatre was reported unofficially to have diminished steadily. The Prime Minister’s statement was made when he was pressed for comment on the plea by tbe American magazine, United States Nows, for “an attack now with all possible resources to prevent Japan entrenching herself to fight a long, defensive war.” The United News added that behind the Japanese present programme of industrial expansion, was a well-laid plan for another war still to come. America should supply mer and machines to launch aii offensive both for this war and the war to come. Failure to do so was to allow Japan to buy cheaply the time needed to oppose the United Nations in a long. costly war.