QUEBEC DECISIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1943, Page 4

QUEBEC DECISIONS

OF UTMOST MILITARY IMPORTANCE BEARING ON STRATEGY IN PACIFIC. STATEMENT BY BRITISH MINISTER. LONDON. August 23. In Quebec, the British Minister of information, Mr Brenden Bracken, stated that decisions of the utmost military importance had been reached at the Allied conference. A luncheon that day, Mr Bracken said, had been not social, but military It had been held to decide important questions of strategy in the Pacific. Mr Churchill, President Roosevelt and Mr Harry Hopkins were present. Mi’ Bracken said that in days to come Quebec would be famous on account of the Allied discussions that had lately taken place. It is rumoured that Mr Churchill is to enjoy a little fishing in Canada at the conclusion of the conference. PLANS ADOPTED PROMISING I‘TERRIFIC” RESULTS. ACCORDING TO “NEW YORK ’ TIMES.” (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 23. Pacific war plans promising “terrific” results have been decided at Quebec, says the “New York Times.” Messrs Churchill and Roosevelt worked until three o'clock this morning on plans providing for a great acceleration of the war against Japan. Three major drives believed to be embodied in these plans are:— A campaign against Burma, to reopen the Burma Road, enabling the Allies to establish and supply large bases for operation against, the Japanese forces in China and against the Japanese mainland. An Allied drive towards Japan from New Guinea, along the island chains through the Philippines and the Netherlands East Indies. A simultaneous drive frofn the Aleutians, in which the Allied navies would play a major role. It has been announced that Dr. Soong has already discussed with Mr Churchill and President Roosevelt plans for the war against Japan. According to the Tokio radio, the Allies on Sunday attempted to land on Kolombangara Island, eight miles r orth-west of New Georgia, in the Central Solomons. The radio claims that the attempt was “heavily repulsed." The main, objective of an Allied landing on Kolombangara would be the enemy air base at Vila, on the south coast. This base is being pounded by Allied bombers from airfields further south in the Solomons chain, principally from Munda, in New Georgia and from Henderson Fidld. in Guadalcanal.