Late News GET FIGHTING MAD Heavy Job Ahead In South Pacific

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 284, 29 August 1942, Page 8

Late News GET FIGHTING MAD Heavy Job Ahead In South Pacific

POSSIBLE LONG WAR (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received August 29, 1.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 28. “We .must get fighting mad. It is a matter of kill or be killed,” declared Sir Earle Page, the newest member of the Australian War Cabinet, today. The view that this might prove to be a 10 years’ war, for which he had been criticized, was realistic, he said. “We must fight as a nation on land and sea and in the air, on the farms and in the workshops, morning, noon and night. We must match the Japanese cult of a Bushido with a crusading determination to blot the Japanese off the map in the Southern Pacific.” * While the United Nations’ production is outstripping the Axis, he warned that it would lie a mistake to dismiss Japan’s shipping position too lightly. Though her losses had been heavy, she had seized 500.000 tons of Allied shipping since entering the war. New Guinea is still not a stranglehold. and if they are finally completely repulsed in the Solomons and their supply lines to New Guinea were menaced it will be a very precarious hold indeed. The enemy landing at Milne Bay is symptomatic as much of the rising tempo of the Pacific war as of Japan’s steady purpose to reduce Port Moresby before continuing the drive south. * The major Allied successes recently encourage observers here to the hopeful view that the Japanese may have stuck out his neck just a' little too far. However, long and arduous fighting by land, air, and sea is recognized to be in prospect.