Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1942 — Page 2
PAGE 2 — Jap Tanks, Dive Bombers Imperil Singapore Defenses
¢ By HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Correspondent SINGAPORE, Jan. 12. ZBritish Empire forces are being withdrawn to a new line north of Seremban, 30 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, before a ferocious Japanese tank-led offensive, a communique of the Malaya Command said today. Fighting was savage as the Japanese infantry, following close behind the tanks, pressed close on the retiring imperial troops and ments, and inflicting heavy losses. swarms of Japanese dive bombingto form their new line under Japp planes bombed and machine-gunned gn ace land and air attack. troop positions, roads and the rall- | y. new line, it was indicated, road. Le zs was based on the railroad between (Seremban, on the main Singa- pe Dickson and Seremban.
pore railroad, is in Negri Sembilan . Bomb Refugee Trains
state of the Federated Malay States, only 160 miles northwest of Singa-| j..anese ned a save pore. The communique implied that ate an on Pe ee cava |southward from the Kuala Lumpur
the Imperial Command had decided to abandon Kuala Lumpur, and the important Port Swettenham of the coast. Japen claimed its eccupation yesterday.)
Jap Fliers Raid Singapore Japanese planes opened a furi-
driving thick jungle to the north, Japanese planes in several waves + cked train Two ous attack today on the Singapore alias a ® Ay several Bony area and the communique said |dispatches said, by machine gun there had been “a number” of raids.| pullets. Apparently Japanese marksBritish fighter planes challenged the; manship was poor for no bombs raiders, with what result remained|struck the train to be ascertained. The battle had now approached Japanese planes heavily bombed a region where the country was the Ceremban areas yesterday, the comparatively open, not so suitable communique said, but it was as-| {Or surprise attacks by the Japanese, serted that only slight damage was (but it was better country for tank
done to road communications. Wwaifape. news came from the East
Fighting on the West Malaya Malaya front where natives were front was reported continuous and| giving effective co-eperation to the severe as the pen) troops sought!imperial troops.
Reds Break German Lines In Arctic, Central Fronts
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent KUIBYSHEV, Jan. 12—War dispatches said today that a Russian offensive had broken through German advance lines on the snow -swept Arctic coast and that the Red Army had pushed through the Axis second defense line in a drive to close a pincers on the Central front. Russian forces that captured Lyudinovo, on the Bryansk-Vyazma Railroad southwest of Moscow, were reported fighting to close a trap around large enemy units on the} Cenral front. {opened its drive on the Rybachi or Attacking territory which the Fishermen's Peninsula on the Arctic Germans and Finns had held for coast, the shore batteries of which six months, the Russian arctic army command the entrance to the i Finnish arctic port of Petsamo.
General Advances Claimed They drove through the German
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! dispatches said. A late dispatch from the Moscow {front asserted that the {had thrust forward 12 miles in the Malovaroslavets sector, north of Kaluga, and had driven the Ger-| mans from 30 villages. In a 60-miles advance from the) | Tikhvin sector of the Leningrad) (front, a special dispatch said, Rus-| sian shock troops captured the headquarters of one Gen. Schmidt and seized even his personal effects] in his wallpapered dugout. (The Vichy radio asserted that] the Russians had retaken Balaclava, scene of the historic charge of the sight Brigade in the Crimean war! {in 1854, and thus had regained pos‘session of the entire southern tip {of the peninsula. Balaclava is 10 miles south of Sevastopol.)
Break Nasis’ Second Line
A communique had announced earlier the Russian recapture of two key points on the Moscow front, Lyudinovo, a steel center 40 miles north of Bryansk, and Tikhonova Pustinya, a few miles north of Kaluga. In taking Lyudinove, the Russians had broken the so-called second
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ALLIES HELPING INDIES DEFENSE
U. S.-Made Planes Drive At Invaders; 6 Jap
Transports Sunk.
BATAVIA, N E. I, Jan. 12 (U.P). —Allied armed forces, including American-made bombers, struek heavy counter-blows against Japanese invaders of the East Indies today, bombing a Japanese cruiser and two enemy transports and shooting down four enemy planes over Celebes. A Japanese destroyer also was attacked. The new counter-blows brought the total of enemy transports hit to six, including two torpedoed and sunk by Dutch submarines in‘ the Gulf of Siam. Three Japanese warships have been attacked since the invasion of Celebes and oil-rich Tarakan island began and two cruisers were reported hit. The latest attacks were described in a communique that emphasized that “our allies are energetically taking part in the fight against the invaders.” Both American and!’ Australian airplanes were mentioned in the eocunter-attacks.
Report Bitter Fighting
Bitter fighting was reported progress against the Japanese sea- the House wing of the National borne and paracahute troops landed Capitol when Congress declared on the Dutch Islands in an effort| War on Japan, Germany and Italy.
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to seize the rich oil area of Tara- | This flag has been given to the
kan and Bali Papan, in East Borneo, | State of Indiana for preservation in
(Japanese imperial headquarters m|a museum. a Tokyvo radio hroadcast today an- Display Posters of 1918 nounced capture of the Celebes port Alex Arch of South Bend, Ind. {of Manado and surrender of Neth|erlands East Indies forces on the Who fired the first shot by the A. E. island of Tarakan. |F. in the First World War, also will The Tokyo communique said os participate in the flag-raising cerejective of the move against the mony.
rlands Indies was “ ture | ‘ [Nelnbrlanes ies aD are! Once the historic banner waves inaval and air bases of the enemy]. ; : ; br in the breeze on the east side of who have been hampering the ac-| . tivities of the Javanese vessels in (he Statehouse, the sale of defense ihe Philip ings and British North Ponds will get underway. Bond purBoies ve - ! (chasers will be given red, white and blue receipts signed .by the blond “Scorched Earth” Planned movie star and also her photograph. Dutch officials
said that all meas-| A display of British and Ameriures had been
taken to
can posters of both the First and apply Second World Wars has been ar-
they expressed hope that occasion. Later these posters, valued Dut ch defense forces could hold out at $100,000, will be exhibited on the | for a long time. stage at Cadle Tabernacle. They are The situation at Tarakan sdmit- the property of American Legion | tealy was serious although bitter re- | National Headquarters. {sistance was in progress.
Out of] Canvass Indiana Employers. [i e Dutch oil production which in
1938 totaled 8.300.000 tons. Tarakan | Miss Lombard will be assisted in | prov ided 750,000 tons of such high|bond selling by a committee from {quality that it could be pumped the Civic Theater headed by Mrs. {directly into ships. Kurt Pantzer.
The Japanese had landed men on | Tarakan Island, off the northeast] The Defense Bond Savings Swf
coast of Borneo, and at three places today began a canvass of Indiana in the Minahassa area of northeast-| employers with a plan for payroll ern Celebes. | allotments toward #purchase of de-
be The Dutch commander in Tara- fense bonds and stamps. Employers {kan Island had said, as he awaited! 1 th the Japanese attack, that the enemy |later will submit the plan to their
would find nothing but charred oil| employees. plants and wells and “dead Dutch-| You Will be expected to allot 10 men.” yh cent of your salaries to the purPeril U. S. Supply Route chase of bonds,” Boyd Fisher, rep- | resentative of the Treasury DeThe blow had come just when. tment, told a group of employers Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, new ‘and volunteer workers at the ClayUnited Nations commander in chief pool Saturday. in the Far Pacific, was preparing to Judge A. J. Stevenson of the Intake up his headquarters in Java. diana Appellate Court heads the Military authorities were inter-| sneakers’ bureau of the Defense ested in the developments of Japa- | Bonds Sales Campaign in Indiana.
nese plans in their new drive partly Mr. Pulliam announced his apbecause of the threat to American | | pointment vesterday.
South Seas communications. It was said that if*the Japanise! 3000 TAKE FIELD IN RED GROSS DRIVE
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it might be necessary for American ships to go around Australia at the cost of one week's sailing time.
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MONDAY, JAN. 12, 1942
JAPS STEP UP LUZON ATTACK
Blast MacArthur Lines as U. S. and Natives Offset
First Assault. (Continued from Page One)
| Hawaii and Australia—but inflict‘|ed only slight damage.
3. The Japanese were engaged in three major offensive: Reduction of Gen. MaeArthur’s forces in the an attack on the
anese offensive toward Singapore. American planes and fighting men were in the thick of it. The Dutch reported that American warships shortly may be expected to shoot their way into action in defense of the East Indies. Blast Jap Battleship
4 The news included a second major assault by forces of heavy American bombing planes upon the major forces which Japan has as-
sembled at the base she has established at Davao, 500 miles south of Manila, on the southern Philippines Island of Mindanao. The American bombers attacked a large Japanese fleet concentration in Malalag Bay, setting a Japanese battleship afire. This appeared to be the fourth enemy battleship blasted by American airmen since start of hostilities, but it was possible that it was the same one on which American heavy bombers scored three direct hits six days ago in the Davao area. If four battleships have been hit, the U. S. has damaged about onethird of Japan’s known eapital ship strength. Because of poor visibility, the bombers were unable to report the full results of their attack against a Japanese fleet, including the battleship, six cruisers, two destroyers, eight transports and 10 smaller vessels. An anti-aircraft battery ashore was hit in the attack. All the American planes returned to their base undamaged.
More U. 8. Planes Busy
American bombers also attacked a Japanese cruiser and two large transports in the Celebes sea,
Increasing intervention of the American air arm in the Far East was emphasized by reports from Rangoon that 26 Japanese planes were destroyed in attacks by American and British planes on Japanese air bases in Malaya, From Singapore came hints that American planes will come to the aid of that increasingly endangered British fortress. The Japanese shelling of Tutuila apparently was of the nuisance type, or may have been designed to tést American defensive strength in that key outpost of the island chain to Australia-New Zealand.
On the War
(Continued from Page One) go through a long war with the prived Britain and the United States
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more cautiously. It is imperative for her to get her hands on the resources of the Indies and do it soon, so that “scorched earth” damage can be repaired and they can be exploited to enable Japan to settle down for a long war. 80 Japan “shot the works” in a well-conceived plan to deliver telling body blows in the first round of the fight. So far they are succeeding. Despite the wide range of their operations, there is no sign that they have spread themselves too thin. There is no ground for optimistic hope that they have shot their bolt and will, begin to lose steam. If Japan takes Singapore. the Allied task of defending the Indies will be made vastiy more difficult. The loss of its naval and air base facilities will be keenly felt, Sumatra, separated from Singapore by a narrow straight, would be open to furious assault by land-based planes and by parachute and water-borne troops. Even so, the Indies would be no pushover for the Japanese. The Duteh have built up their defenses strongly. They have a large and well-trained Army and an efficient Navy and air force. The latter has given an excellent account of itself in current operations in the south China Sea. This second phase of the war might extend into the unpredictable future. If the Japanese win it in a reasonable time, however, the United Nation will face a much more formidable foe. The Japanese already have coal. In the Indies they would find all the oil they need, plus rubber, tin and other important supplies. Japan still would be short of iron ore and some other basic metals but probably not enough to hamstring her war effort. Moreover, by taking the Indies, she will have de-
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