The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-18
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fused the commonwealth with
new optimism.
Although Macarthur had not
yet reached his new headquar'
tiers he took over command a,
once.
II was disclosed that MacAr-
thur, along with his wife, four
year-old Son and q dozen mem.
bers of his staff. made the flight
here through the aerial war zone
from Bataan in a United States
Army plane.
BY direct route the fligh'
would have been 1000 miles te
Darwin, nearest Australian base
With Macarthur were Major
Gen. r. K. Sutherland and Brig
Gen. Harold H. George.
REACH CANBERRA
Exchange Telegraph report
ed in q dispatch from Canberrs
that Macarthur arrived at Alice
Springs, road-rail junction Of the
defense highway from Darwin tc
South Australia, yesterday, and
was expected to confer with gov
eminent officials in Canberrs
soon.)
In the location of United
States fighting forces, which
have arrived at various ports
could not be disclosed, but they
were scattered to camps through.
out Australia as they moved ur
to battle zones.
In some camps they were
quartered along Australian
troops.
Official disclosure that the
Americans are here brought pro.
found relief to the Australians
who, of course. have known
it from the start.
1--WE have not known how te
treat you," one Austrian mer.
chant said. "We have seen your
boys-hundreds of them-in no.
tells, restaurants and stores, but
there had not been q line about
them In the papers.
NO PUBLICATION
I'VE were supposed not te
know you were here. Now tina,
it is being published. we car
make you our friends. We now
can begin to show how grateful
we are that the Americans are
here"
Lieut.. Col. Lloyd Lehrbas
Army press officer, said Mac.
Arthur's arrival in Australia die
not mean that American forces
are pulling out Of the Philip.
pines"
1--WE have been holding thu
japanese In the Philippines, .
Lehrbas said, land we intend tc
continue holding them in thu
Philippines"
General Brett predicted tina,
Austria could be held agains,
the largest scale Japanese at,
tack.
He declared that all possible
Jumping off points for such ar
invasion were being watched anc
said Australia was being sup
piled with as many aircraft q.
possible.
Curtin looked beyond the
smashing of any japanese at
tack and, in acclaiming MacAr.
thur and the American ground
and air forces here, foresaw ar
eventual Allied counter drive
from Australia's shores.
HOUR OF PERIL
The new command takes owe,
in an hour Of peril which wa.
accentuated by the Prime Min
ister's announcement today tina,
there will be no racing, organ.
lied sports or motion picture
performances for the duration O,
the emergency.
o.
An Australian broadcast
heard in New York by CHS
said the Australian Army woulc
retain its identity within tn,
Allied framework under an Aus.
tralian commander answerablt
to Macarthur.
Administrative details, it said
probably will be shaped by ar
Allied war council in the Aus
tralian-New Zealand area, with
Australian and American com,
manders of the separate branch.
es as members under MacAr.
thurs chairmanship.
o.
For the present, the only &C.
ton on the developing invasion
front reported by the RAAF
were aerial skirmishes by both
sides.
Allied aircraft which, In
the past, usually has meant
United States war; lanes were
participating-were said to have
scored hits yesterday on the Jap.
anese-held airdrome at Keeping
capital of Dutch Timor.
Air alarms were reported both
at Port Darwin, on the northern
Australian coast, and at Por,