BIGGEST JAP MOVE EXPECTED
Against Australia
(By Telegraph - Press Assn.—t opyrigbt.) (Special Austnilinn Correspondent.) SYDNEY, January 2!).
Enemy troops are being assembled :.t strategic points. I’olitieial correspondents state that tlie Commonwealth Government believes that a large-scale Japanese attack on Australia is brewing in tlie north.
"Japan is again preparing to move southward in Hie Pacific, this time on a scale far beyond the ear-.ter attempts.” states the political correspondent <>f Ibe Sydney "Sun." "lie|Hirls indicate that the Japanese are building up fiirinidalilo transport forces. "Heraiisc of the Jap: dominance of the northern walers, it would take the enemy hut little time to rush the m-ees-vary naval protection southward when preparations are completed for jumping off. Enemy aerodromes are being completed ill strategic positions to enable It>ng<’r-r;i ng(j <u*rinl rnids on tlm Ailu’u oulposts. "’the Federal Ministry is being kept closely in touch with developiiients tn the explosive situation, and there is a feeling that this time Japan will attempt. to overcome her earlier mistakes by moving in what she hopes will be overwhelming force.”
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 107, 30 January 1943, Page 5
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174BIGGEST JAP MOVE EXPECTED Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 107, 30 January 1943, Page 5
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