HALTING JAPAN
AUSTRALIA’S GREAT IMPORTANCE “Whatever objective stands' first in Tokio’s plans. Japan cannot afford to have a powerful offensive force operating against her from Australia. The occupation of Port Darwin in the north and of Albany and Fremantle in the west would be, if not absolutely essential, at least of the first importance to Japan’s power of holding the
East Indies and to any further aggresion. While American and British seapower can use those harbours the flag of the Rising Sun has no security on any ocean. It would be sanguine to suppose that air attack has done more than delay Japanese operations or that the hard fighting in Burma has thwarted the plan. The population liable to conscription upon which the Japanese High Command can call, some 75,000,000, makes possible the employment of huge armies and ruthless sacrifice of troops.”—Daily Telegraph, London.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 65, Issue 5492, 1 July 1942, Page 6
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