The Archive · 1941

Third Army in Pacific

The necessity of stopping Japanese aggression is causing us to collect an army in the Pacific, The army is getting ready to strike anywhere when the moment arrives. Though our military forces have so far only been exploited in small bodies, they have gained some glorious victories and won successes which cannot be surpassed by any army.

Of these. our first campaign in Libya. the Abyssinian campaign and he conquest of Syria were all carried out brilliantly against an army numerically far superior and equally well equipped.

"Today our forces are reaching a high standard of motorizstion all over the world. and tanks are arriving in good increasing numbers.—Reuter

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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