BRITISH MISSION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1943, Page 3

BRITISH MISSION

ACCOMPANIED BY AMERICAN OFFICERS TO STUDY WAR PROBLEMS IN PACIFIC. MAXIMUM CO-OPERATION AGAINST JAPAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Maximum British co-operation with the United States in future operations against the Japanese is now being planned,”, said the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, in announcing last night that a special British Military, Naval and Air Mission, headed by Major-General J.S. Lethbridge, is to arrive shortly in New Zealand en route to Australia. Mr Fraser said that General Lethbridge and his staff were engaged in the study of all problems of tactics, weapons, supply, transport, communications and medical services connected with the war against Japan other than future operational planning. The Mission had already spent some weeks in the United States. That the British Government is taking these measures in full consultation and agreement with the United States, New Zealand. Australia and India, Mr Fraser observed, is the best augury for full and effective co-operation against the Japanese, as soon as the world situation permits. The mission is composed of officers of all three British fighting services. The senior naval member is RearAdmiral F. H. W. Goolden. and the senior air member is Air Commodore L. L. Mac Lean. The United Kingdom Army contingent includes Brigadiers H. Barlett (Royal Corps of Signals) and McAlevey, R.A.M.C. Representatives from both the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force are included. The mission is accompanied by Captain Blick, of the United States Navy, Colonels Robins and De Ware, of the United States Army, and Colonel Moore, of the United States Army Air Force.