JAPANESE THREAT
NORTH OF AUSTRALIA FORCE OF 2,000 AIRCRAFT & 200,000 MEN. OBSERVATIONS BY ARMY MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Japanese have prepared landing strips sufficient for 2,000 planes on islands north of Australia, where they are reported to have concentrated 200,000 men. The Minister for the Army (Mr Forde) stated this on his return from Western Australia. To accommodate 2..000 planes, the Japanese would need about a hundred airfields or landing strips. Asked whether an enemy attack on Western Australia was considered likely, Mr Forde said; “We must reasonably assume that an attack on either north-west or northeast Australia is a distinct possibility and plan accordingly. It is only by being ready to meetVny eventuality that we can hope to repel whatever attack the enemy may make upon us. One thing is certain—the Japanese are not going to stay still.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1943, Page 3
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