“NO STRATEGIC CHANGE”
POSITION IN AUSTRALIA (Special Australian. Correspondent—NA.P.A.) (Recd. 11.10 n.m.) Sydney, Feb. 19. Lieut.-General Krueger is in Australia. It is stated here that his-appoint-ment will create no strategic change in the South-west Pacific Command area. A spokesman at General MacArthur's headquarters to-day described the formation of the American Sixth Army as “an administrative step of no especial operative significance.” He added that the troops concerned are only those already In the area.
While no official announcement has yet been made, it is understood that General Sir Thomas Blarney's position as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied land forces in the South-west Pacific is not affected.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 42, 20 February 1943, Page 5
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