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...manpower, equipment and shipping, the U.S. would strive there to hold a last corner of the southwest Pacific, to build up its forces for counterattack. The U.S. and MacArthur would have to move fast. This week, on the day that Douglas MacArthur arrived, a Japanese Fleet moved southward from Java toward Australia's long and vulnerable eastern coast...
...enough to make a real difference in the battle for Australia. The Army's communiqué spoke only of "considerable numbers," gave no exact information as to strength. But if the Japs should enter Australia this week, they would find, on a slightly larger scale, the story of Java, where a few U.S. bombers had too little fighter protection, where a few hundred artillerymen were the sole ground troops...
...lies only 240 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa, athwart the United Nations' sea lane around the Cape of Good Hope to the Persian Gulf, to India and Australia. If Japan had Madagascar, the Axis would threaten the whole Indian Ocean. Madagascar is 3,800 miles from Java and 7,200 from Tokyo-not as far as Australia is from...
...Japan's successes have taken a 7% slice out of the U.S. cinema industry's already shaky foreign market; in normal times, gross film rentals from Japan, China, the East Indies and Straits Settlements amount to almost $6,000,000 (Java alone: $1,500,000). In Australia and New Zealand, 14% more of the industry's foreign revenue is at stake...
Thirteen to Seven. The Navy bleakly told how much of the Fleet did not remain. In the battle of Java the Japanese destroyed 13 Allied warships: five cruisers, seven destroyers, an armed sloop...