Grim Warning Against Complacency

Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 207, 31 August 1942, Page 5

Grim Warning Against Complacency

DON’T UNDEiviuSi’XMATE JAPAN’S STRENGTH Beceiveil buvuay, a.su p.ui. Aijiiijijuuj.tiUi, Auy. i>o. “If we are uut caieirn we wm prou ■.uly suiter a uapusui 01 lire on our soil boxore t no oust iu us is brougut to tue surxaoe." bars grim warning was stveu uy tne iututsier of tlie Aral} .rvrr. xoruej wneu he hit out strongly against complacency, ”\ve nave oeen getting things too easily in Australia, vve are too sanguine ox success. No goou purpose can be served by talking glibly in Australia about opening a second front. Our job is to lnofutain the front already opened in the north and it is going to be no easy task.” Japan had resources of maupowoi equal to Germany, said Air. fordo. She also had under control in the con quered territories , labour resources vastly exceeding those available to Germany. Her material resources were virtually inexhaustible. Japan could throw into action an army as large and almost as well equipped as the German army providing she could control her lines of communication. However the Allied position in the South Pacific had substantially improved due to the assistance of the United States and Britain, increased home production, the expan sion of the defence forces and the return of the A.I.F.