AMERICAN FORCES
IMMEDIATE DESPATCH TO MALAYA AND EAST INDIES Urged by Dr. Van Mook NECESSITY OF SAFEGUARDING THESE TERRITORIES AS BASES FROM WHICH TO COUNTER-ATTACK (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 22. Dr Van Mook (Lieutenant-Governor of the Netherlands East Indies), broadcasting, urged the immediate despatch of United States naval, air and land forces to the East Indies and Malaya, declaring., that the capture of these territories would mean the isolation* of Australia and the loss of the best bases for counter-attacking the Japanese. He said: “The East Indies and Malaya constitute a wall between the Pacific and the Indian oceans. Once it is lost to the enemy, Japan will be able to close the Burma Road and also to threaten communications with the Middle East and Russia, through the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.’’
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1942, Page 4
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141AMERICAN FORCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1942, Page 4
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