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ENEMY PLANS

VIEW OF SIR THOMAS BLAMEY MENACE TO AUSTRALIA. SECOND FRONT DEMANDS IN EUROPE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, May 1. General Sir Thomas Blarney, commander of the Allied ground forces in the southwest Pacific, stated that the Japanese had reinforced their positions north-east of Australia. The menaced areas were Darwin and Port Moresby, as these Allied outposts directly faced the Japanese bases extending from Dutch Timor to Rabaul in New Britain.

“The increased activity of the enemy means that he has some further plan,” General Blarney said. “It might be to seize our outposts or to cut our supply lines with America. But we are building up our forces in these areas, and they are now in a much better position than they have ever been to meet the Japs.”

Japan’s immediate hope was to complete the encirclement of China, but it was not clear yet how this would affect moves in other directions, he added.

General Blarney expressed the opinion that the advocacy of a second front in Europe was wrongly based. “The Allied leaders are determined to establish such a front when we are certain it will not be wasted and when we will make a good job of it,” he said.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1942, Page 3

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ENEMY PLANS Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1942, Page 3

ENEMY PLANS Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1942, Page 3

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