AMERICANS ARRIVE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 65, 18 March 1942, Page 5

AMERICANS ARRIVE

ARMY UNITS IN AUSTRALIA “CONSIDERABLE NUMBERS” REPORTED (Ey Telegraph—Brest Association—Copyright.) (Recd. 9.30 p.m.) Washington, March 16. Mr. Henry Stimson, Secretary of War, announced that United States Army units, including air and ground troops in considerable numbers, are now in Australia. No information as to lhe strength and designation of lhe units nor their location is at present available for publication.

SUPREME STRATEGY ' IWiJOi AunDiii'. UnliLO ALLltu li\ v u 1 s iviLt t IN ncW lurvK (Recd. 9.30) New lork, March 16. uritisn, Russian, umnese alia Netnenands envoys joinea rresiaeiu Roosevelt in calling lor unity in tnv war against the Axis al a meeting in New York attended by many diplomats. Mr. Roosevelt sent the following message to the meeting: "The supreme strategy of the victors must be for the United Nations to remain united in purpose, sympathy and determination. The supreme achievement of enemy propaganda would be to create disunity. Those who cry for divided effort in an indivisible war are serving as obliging messengers of Axis propaganda." M. Litvinov declared that Russian successes had been such that th f ’

former Hitler army which entered Soviet territory drunk with victory no longer existed. He said it was obvious that if Russian strength wax increased or the German forces could be split by a diversion elsewhere ft would be possible to drive the Nazis to the German frontier, Berlin, and beyond. Lord Halifax warned that the spring and summer of 1942 "are surely going to put free men everywhere to such a test of courage and endurance as will match the darkest days of 1918. We have lost much and may lose more.” But, he pointed out, Britain and America are building up a formidable mass of aerial and naval power while' the enemy has pretty well reached lhe peak of his military and industrial strength. The Chinese representative, Hushih. said the entry of Britain and America into the war meant that a great Chinese dream had come true. Great faith was tardily but at last vindiM. Loudon pledged that the Dutch would continue fighting. ‘‘‘No peace and no armistice’ is the slogan of every true Dutchman, wherever he live, on this earth.”