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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1948.
Gordon Bennett
Bennett Defends
Sir Robert Brooke-Popham
"QUIET RETIRING AND EFFICIENT”
Canberra, Feb. 5.
Lieutenant General Gordon Bennett, the Australian commander who escaped from Malaya after the Japanese victory in 1942, today de- fended Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, whose des- patches on the Malayan campaign were published à fortnight ago. Writing for the "Fortnightly Observer," General
Bennett said: "Brooke-Popham was not a showman. On the contrary, he was quiet, re- tiring and efficient.
"War correspondents
criticised him rather
severely, duc, in my opinion, to the fact that he made no attempt to impress them. "Like so many British lenders, effect of warning the United States
Fices in Penri Harbour.
"Air cover was refused Phillips (Vice Admiral T. Phillips who
he looked on war errespondents as superfluous. At press confer ences, he gave the impression that he was tired and incking in virile went down with the Prince of energy. In fact, he had an excel-Wales) small but powerful naval lent grip of his task and worked squadron because the northern hard and efficiently, though not Malayan aerodromes were unten- spectacularly.".
able or badly damaged,
General Bennett said: "The Commander-in-Chief staff of the
of the Far Eastern theatre was
German Methods
"A fighter squadron arrived to
very small and unlike other Br-see the Prince of Wales minking. Ush staffs in World War II which It the planes could reach the
were at were extremely cumbersome.
place where the ships tacked after the attack, they could have reached there in time to save the ships,"
"He had three principal staff officers, one from each of the ser- vices. Apart from these, he had practically no staff.
Inferior Planes
"The plane shortag, was serious, but more serious still Was the !quality of cur planes in comparl- son with the efficient and superior Japanese planes."
General Bennett disagreed with that section of the report claiming that the fighting was under con- ditions with which the British
| Empire had very little experience and that the lack of tanks was a serious handicap.
He stated that the Japanese used initration methods adopted by
Writing on the decision to can- the Germans in the early Euro- cel the "Operation Matador" planpean fighting.
to move the 11 Indian Division "All these methods adopted by forward into Stans to deat with the Japanese in Malaya were, at any attempted Japanese landing. least in part, responsible for the General Bennett said this was failures in batile", he said. wise, as the "operation was doon- ed to failure,”
"Une division. In size. and quality, could not possibly have prevented the landings", General Benpelt said.
"On Dec. 8, 1941, our Air Force reported two Japanese convoys. Unili it Wbs certain, without doubi, that the fleet was destined for Malaya, Air Chief Marshat Brooke-Popham was unable to at
tack.
"Weak"
"I was weak, however, to send
Pacifism
"Subsequent operations in the Pacific islands showed little scope for tanks in jungle country. The were Japanese tanks in Malaya easily dealt with,
"The Commander-in-Chief could well have placed at the front of all the reasons for the defeat the lack of preparedness of our Em- pire for war and the development, during the peace years, of a paci- dst attitude.
Heuter,
"This made our leaders passive a single Catalina to shadow the and destroyed aggressiveness, a fleet. The plane wus probably trait essential in war leaders." destroyed. A light, or at least two planes, may have enabled the news. urgently needed, to reach the Commander-in-Chief."
N.Y. Stock Market
New York, Feb. 6. Chilled by another nosedive of major
General Bennett continued: "The need for news of the destina- tion of the Japanese feel was ab kmportant that the Commander- In-Chief would have been justiñed in sending out as powerful a re commodities, the stock market reached t connaissance unit with a covering new hottem, though late bidding for a unt as he could spare.
lowes technical romeback reduced early "Had the enemy attacked this ranging to two or more polate. unil, a casus belli would
Transfers weco 1,209,040 shares. In ad- dition
tumbling commodities, Well arlsen ut once, possibly some street still was pessimistic about tance, hours before the Japanese intend poulble further anti-Inflation moves by ed. Maybe it would have had the the Government, and foreign situations.,
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An announcement i ex- pected within the next few days.
Other members of the. Cominform are Russla, Po- land, Rumania, Hungary. Yugoslavia. Czechoslovakia, France and Italy-Reuter.
444.
Missing Plane Hope Fades
The
Miami, Florida, Feb. 5.
Linited Sinter Const Guard here said today that the all night vigil for a renewal of 805 messages belleved possibly to have come from survivora of the British South American Alr. wayn Tudor-4
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