INVASION RISKS
FEDERAL PREMIER’S STATEMENT. SUPPORTED BY ARMY MINISTER (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, June 15. The invasion risks to Australia are less today than at any period since Japan entered the war, said the Minister of the Army, Mr Forde, supporting the recent statement by the Prime Minister, Mr Curtin. He based this belief, he said, on reports he had received from his military adviseis on strategy in the South-West Pacific area, and on observations on his recent tour of northern defences.
"I believe that if the Japanese were to set foot in Australia, they would be thrown back into the sea, ’ declared Mr Forde, but he added a warning that the continuation of this favourable position depended largely on an all-out war effort by Australians,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1943, Page 3
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126INVASION RISKS Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1943, Page 3
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