PHASE OF DEFENCE
PASSING IN THE PACIFIC NEW ZEALAND PREMIER’S DECLARATION. VISIT TO MELBOURNE. (.By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, July 27. “The defensive phases in the Pacific warfare are passing, and forces are gathering for an offensive,” declared the New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, in Melbourne today. He said he believed this to be so in spite of the Japanese landing in Papua, “which our forces seem to have in hand.”
A Pacific offensive would contribute as much as a victory anywhere to the defeat of the Axis Powers, he continued. Without a victory in the Pacific there could not be a total overthrow of the Nazi or Fascist forces.
Mr Fraser is discussing matters of supply and liaison in Melbourne, and he will attend a meeting of the Australian War Advisory Council in Canberra on Thursday.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19420728.2.22
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1942, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
137PHASE OF DEFENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1942, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in