“TOO ROUNDABOUT”
Offensive From Australia <Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) ’ ’(Special Australian Correspondent.)
Received October 7, 7.5 p.m. SYDNEY, October 7.. “It is difficult to quarrel with this analysis” says the Sydney Telegraph, commenting editorially on Lt.-Colonel Wildman's assessment that the only realistic approach to Japan is via Burma and Chinn and that an offensive from Australia is too roundabout. "The huddiec concentration of life and industry in Japan’s tinv island offers highly vulnerable targets’,” says the paper. “Our problem is to find bases to keep up a sustained attack on these targets.” “Australia is too far away. To gain bases near Japan by an offensive from Australia would presuppose the war lasting many years. The quickest approach is that which Colonel Wildman describes. There are signs that the opening of this attack (a drive to push the Japanese out of Burma, open the Burma Road and resume the flow of war material to China) may not now be long delayed.”
The New Zealander. J. 11. MacDonald, who captained the team which played for England in the Services Rugby international against Wales last season, has gained his “wings” and been appointed a pilot officer in the R.A.F.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 11, 8 October 1943, Page 5
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