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Show British Navy In Pacific The British Navy has assembled assem-bled a sizeable force of battleships, battle-ships, carriers, cruisers, destroyers destroy-ers and other vessels in the Pacific Pa-cific and, recently, British warships war-ships joined with our Third Fleet in delivering damaging blows to the Japanese on land. This serves effective notice on the Japanese that there is no prospect of division between the two great English-speaking na-toins na-toins and that oolh are determined deter-mined to push the war against Japan to a vistorious conclusion. conclu-sion. While the full strength of the British fleet in the Pacific is not known, it includes some of the best vessels in the Royal Navy. In addition, the British have a fleet ni the East Indies, which, presumably, will take part in an amphibious defensive against Singapoore after the monsoon season ends in October. This fleet likewise includes units of all types and together the tow fleets makes up the bulk of modern British naval power. Both are being reinforced steadily. The present inactivity of British Brit-ish warships should effectively answer the propaganda which is being spread by Tokyo and, which, unfortunately, is repeated by some anti-British Americans. The allegatoin that the British would not go into war against Japan but would leave the U-nited U-nited States to fight the Japanese alone, overlooks the enormous damage that Japan has done to British interest in the Far East. In fact, the British had, and have, at the hands of the Japanese receved injuries and indignities that far surpass those experienced experi-enced by the United States. |