ARMY MINISTER REPLIES TO CRITICS OF BRITAIN
Recall of Part of A.I.F. Suggested by Churchill
EVENTS IN THE PHILIPPINES AND ELSEWHERE
BOMBING ATTACKS ON RABAUL MAINTAINED
LONDON, April 23. Mr Forde, the Australia Army Minister, replying to people who had criticised Britain for not doing more to help the Commonwealth, said Mr Churchill himself had suggested that some portion of the Australian Imperial Force should be recalled to Australia. That movement would have been impossible but for the might of the British Navy. The Rabaul wharves were again the main target of Allied, bombers yesterday. In the Philippines, a communique states intermittent attacks by enemy dive-bombers diminished yesterday. In Panay the defenders are resisting Japanese attacks on the south coast of the island. Fighting continues in Cebu. Japanese seaplanes are attacking northern districts in Mindanao. Australian and Dutch forces are still fighting m Dutch Timor. They have been resisting for the last two months despite enemy reports of their surrender,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1942, Page 3
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