MORE PLANES NEEDED
IN MALAYAN FIGHTING CONCERN IN AUSTRALIA. BRITISH PRESS CAMPAIGN. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, December 17. Reports from Australia that defence weaknesses in Malaya have caused great concern to the Commonwealth are widely published in London papers, says the Press Association. These reports appear alongside the news of the fighting in Malaya. Correspondents in Aus- . tralia cabled extracts from Dr. Evatt’s speech, together with comments of other Australian Ministers as well as of the daily papers on the Malayan deficiencies and the immediate need for air reinforcements. The publication of the Australian criticism coincides with a British Press campaign which asks searching questions on the lack of air support in the Pacific. The Government has answered the demand by granting a debate in the Commons before Christmas, but it will be held in secret. The Australian envoy in London, Sir Earle Page, told the Associated Press that the British authorities had informed him that they were seeking to strengthen the air forces in every theatre of war, including Malaya.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1941, Page 5
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