OFFENSIVE ACTION URGED
Policy Of Retirements Condemned (Rec. 1.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 18. A policy of constant retirements to “prepared positions” could lead to the Allies losing the war, declared Dr. H. Van Mook, Lieutenant-Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies at a press conference with Australian and American journalists to-day. The democracies, he added, must cease thinking in terms of defence but rather must they search out the enemy and fight him. If Java fell Japan would probably turn northward against Russia and India, but Australia, he emphasised, could depend upon it that they would be dealt with later. Dr. Van Mook assured pressmen that the Netherlands East Indies would resist the Japanese to the last man. They would fight on even if the position seemed hopeless and even if help did not come. They were accustomed to the possibility that they might have to fight alone.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22201, 19 February 1942, Page 5
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147OFFENSIVE ACTION URGED Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22201, 19 February 1942, Page 5
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