SEA POWER VITAL
IN THE PACIFIC CONFLICT AIR FORCE AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT. ] TASK BEFORE THE ALLIES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 12. Referring to the Japanese invasion of the Philippines and Malaya, and now Borneo and Celebes in the Netherlands East Indies, “The Times” says: “The length of coastline to be defended is equivalent to the distance from Ireland to the Caucasus, and nothing can prevent the enemy from finding unguarded stretches in so extended a line. There is only one thing that can put a stop to this locust-like swarming over islands, and that is decisive sea power in the Pacific, of which, as everywhere in modern war, supremacy •in the air is an essential component. Till that is recovered, we can do no more than mitigate inevitable losses.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1942, Page 3
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