Vast prolefield of the East

29th : the Voice of the 29th Battalion, Volume 1, Issue 9, 18 July 1943, Unnumbered Page

Vast prolefield of the East

The Rod Army has won victories of 0. j kind unequalled in the history of warfare, Millions of Axis troops have boon killed* • Stupendous quantities of war materials have been captured. . YET DESPITE THIS, HITLER AND HIS ALLIES REMAIN IMMENSELY STRONG THE OPENING ?F AN ANGLO-AMERICAN OFFENSIVE ON THE CONTINENT WILL SPELL THEIR FINAL DOOM® In the Pacific there is room for sober : confidence, but none for complacency. The i Japanese have been checked in Nev; Guinea and the Solomons, and the tide is beginning to turn. » They have been beaten in battles by the U.S. Navy. While. Japan retains possession of tho vast territories stretching. through Hon& ! Kong through the East Indies to the S.VL Pacific, there can bo no grounds for com*' j j pie.coney in Australia, Now Zealand, or anv •• ' other Allied country. * -1 Here again, tho full weight of the ! ’o'ppros’iSor has been borne almost entirely i by one country — China. For six years she ■ has grappled almost unarmed against one of i the cruellest and most bestial of foes, THERE IS xi GREAT DEAL OF HARD FIGHTING : AND HARD WORKING TO BE DONE BEFORE A COJ- * PLSTE AND VICTORIOUS PEACE IS WON* “■ '