NORTH AUSTRALIAN FORCES

Grey River Argus, 1 June 1943, Page 5

NORTH AUSTRALIAN FORCES

MacArthur’s Tour

SYDNEY, May 31. (General MacArthur has just, completed a surprise tour of the jungle training camps scattered through the bush country of Northern Australia. To make an extensive survey as possible of the Allied troops in training, he flew hundreds of miles by bombers. The first known of h;s arrival was when he announced himself to the commanding officers. He wished to see the routine training and not specially prepared exercises. He lived with the troops in the field, and accompanied an artillery, unit on manoeuvres. During the tour, General MacArthur visited the Australian headquarters of Lieut.-General Robert Eichelberger, who commanded the American troops at Buna. He saw soldiers in al nost every arm or the service preparin'? for the coming battles in the Southern Pacific. He paid particular attention to infantry training, based on the' lessons of tne fighting in New Guinea.