CRUSHING OF JAPAN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 98, 29 April 1942, Page 4

CRUSHING OF JAPAN

EARL JELLICOE’S WARNING SEA POWER KEY TO VICTORY. The fact that the formation of a powerful British fleet in the Far East mid been advocated by the late Eari Jeliicoe following his world tour alter the Great War was mentioned recently by Commodore W. E. Parry, wno has been succeeded by Commodore Sir Atwell H. Labe as Chief of the. Naval Staff and First Member of thei Naval Board. Tne period of Commodore Parry's Joan from the Royal Navy has expired. Commodore Parry said Lord Jeliicoe had also suggested that Japan would strike with little warning, unlortu-' nately, Lord Jellicoe’s proposals had] been checkmated by the Washington I Naval Conference and the war-weari-ness of the Allies. Commodore Parry said His own Commander-in-Chiei, when he was stationed in the Far East in 1933 had expressed -the view that lx war came in wiorth China waters the British ships would be caught like rats in a trap. Japan realised that. Japan's strength in the past and at present, said Commodore Parry, was eased on sea power, and the Allies problem was to break that. The inclusion of New Zealand in a South Pacific naval command was important, tor sea power was the key to victory. He knew that the Dominion would; rise to the occasion in the great parti that lay ahead, as had his ship's company in the Achilles.