HOLD ON SINGAPORE
MR CHURCHILL CONFIDENT JAPANESE STRATEGIC AIMS. DISCUSSED BY MILITARY SPOKESMAN. LONDON, December 31. An Army spokesman in Singapore yesterday declared that the Japanese grand strategy seemed to be aimed at isolating Singapore. The chief prize for Japan in this campaign was the Netherlands East Indies, and for that reason Singapore must and would be kept going, because once Singapore fell the Netherlands East Indies would fall. There was little indication at present of Japanese preparations for an attempt to land in Sumatra. There were few available craft, except fish-, ing-boats, while no signs of troop- J carrying aircraft in north Malaya had ■ been seen. In Ottawa today Mr Churchill, at a Press conference, expressed his confidence that Singapore will be held.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1942, Page 3
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124HOLD ON SINGAPORE Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1942, Page 3
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