MAN-SIZED JOB

Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22459, 21 September 1944, Page 5

MAN-SIZED JOB

(DISPOSING OF THE JAPANESE (Received Sept. 21, 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 20 Mr H. Forrestal, Secretary to the Navy, addressing the American Legion Convention in Chicago, advocated—(l) Universal compulsory military training, combined with civic educational instruction; (2) the retention of a strong navy with air power; (3) national security based on constant vigilance in world problems, the maintenance of scientific research cn basic materials, and the care that economy is not the sole criterion of what is expended on the army and navy. Mr Forrestal concluded: “With the end of the European war in sight there is a man-sized job of disposing o l the Japanese.” He added: “The complete surrender and occupation of Germany must go doubly* for Japan, because the energetic, warlike Japanese cannot be restrained by a written agreement.”

An Admiralty communique says: The frigate H.M.S. Stayner, .in company with light coastal forces, attacked and sank a force of three Eboats encountered 23 miles north of Dunkirk. When the first E-boat was sunk by repeated hits from the Stayner’s guns the other two E-boats attempted to escape northward at speed. They were intercepted and sunk in an action fought at such close range that some of the guns could not be brought to bear.