IMMINENT THREAT OF INVASION

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

IMMINENT THREAT OF INVASION

POST WANTED FOR BENNETT SYDNEY SEN'S DEMAND. Reed. 11.35 p.m.) Sydney, March 17. Directing attention to tne imminent the eat of an invasion in the north, the Sydney Sun, in an editorial, demands the appointment of Major-General Gordon Bennett to a post where he can deal first-hand with the Japanese with the same unquestioned authority he possessed in Malaya. The editorial emphasises MajorGeneral Bennett's exceptional fitness [ for the task “instead of which he is i being obliged to sit in an armchair preparing ollicial reports for a cumbersome military organisation.” BACK FROM FAR EAJf MOST OF R.A.A.F. PERSONNEL (Recd. 11.5 p.m.) Canberra, March 17. The majority of R.A.A.F. personnel serving in the Far East have returned to Australia, Mr. A. S. Drakeford, Air Minister, announced to-day. He added that they would be absorbed into the home squadrons so that their active service experience would be as widely distributed as possible. Most of the men had operated right through the Malayan campaign and the early stages of the Sumatra and Java hostilities, and their morale was very high.