Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1942 — Page 5
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How Singapore Looks to Japs
Burma:
U. S., British Fliers Smash 10 Jap Planes at Rangoon
RANGOON, Feb. 6 (U. P.).—American and British air squadrons broke up Japanese attempts to cross the Salween River defense line in force today and shot down 10 to 17 enemy bombers attacking Rangoon in a series of raids before and after dawn. A British night fighter brought down one enemy bomber and probably destroyed another. During daylight attacks, the defenders downed at lease 10 and probably five other Japanese planes, without loss, in|drome, turning back a group of 30 raiders.| On the Salween River front, The devastating attacks by [British bombers continued attacks American and British fighters were jon Japanese forces in the Pa-An reported unofficially to have in- |sector, north of Moulmein for the flicted the highest percentage of |sixth successive day. loss yet suffered by the Japanese | Dispatches have indicated that in fighting over Burma (apparent- {the Japanese crossed the river in ly about 50 per cent) but official small numbers at some points but figures were not yet available. were quickly attacked and that no There were no reported R. A. F. |big scale crossing had been succasualties in the raid on the air- [cessful in the vicinity of Pa-An.
Singapore:
ENEMY PLANES RAKING ISLAND §
2000 Trapped Men on Malayan Mainland Are
Rescued. by HAROLD GUARD
United Press Staff Correspondent SINGAPORE, Feb. 6 (U.P).— Battering air and artillery attacks along the Straits of Johore intensified the siege of Singapore today,! but British defenders were bolstered by the daring naval rescue of 2000 troops that had been isolated behind Japanese lines of the Malaya Peninsula. | On the seventh day of siege, Jap-| anese planes swept low across the] mile-wide strait to dive-bomb and machine gun British defense positions. British artillery resumed heavy bombardment of the Johore coast British fighter planes shot down one enemy craft and damaged three The civilian
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Russia:
Red Armies Are Reported Nearing Smolensk, Kharkov
LONDON, Feb. 6 (U. P.).—Russian troops driving through heavy snow were reported today to be nearing Smolensk, key city of the Moscow front, and Kharkov, the great industrial center of the Ukraine, despite steadily intensifying German resistance. Russia’s radio Kuibyshev and other sources described extensive Russian gains on both flanks of the German line before Smolensk, 230 miles southwest of Moscow, and indicated
enemy con
positions on
others. bomb island. Naval sources disclosed that patrol craft had carried out bold night journeys along the Malayan coast, pushing as far north as the Batu Pahat sector where a number of]
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imperial troops had been cut off. About 2000 soldiers were rescued and brought safely to Singapore to reinforce the island defenses. Mobilization of all available defense strength continued throughout the island.
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This is how Singapore Island looks to Jap forces swarming down to the tip of Malaya to attack the British base. Johore strait forms an unbridged, mile-wide moat between the mainland and the island's
PLAN TO INVADE EUROPE OTTAWA, Feb.6 (U.P.).—United States, British and Canadian staff officers in Britain have drawn plans for ultimate invasion of Germanoccupied Europe, Lieut. Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton, Canadian overseas
that the city was in increasing peril. The Russians appeared to have broken through German lines both north and south of Kharkov, German dispatches mentioned fierce fighting in the Byelgorod sector 38 miles north of Kharkov. South of Kharkov, the Russians reported continued advances after taking the town of Petropavlovka, 100 miles south of Kharkov and 63
miles east of Dnepropetrovsk, the site of the great Dnieper River dam. South of Leningrad, the Russians had advanced as far as strong
German entrenched lines, and it was reported that Russian artillery had heen brought up to pound these lines in preparation for a continued advance.
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BATAVIA, Feb. 6 (U. P.).—Japanese invasion forces have occupiede their important oil and coal center of Samarinda, on the east Borneo {coast 60 miles north of Balik Papan, a communique of the Netherlands Indies command announced today. | Netherlands troops were believed to have destroyed all installations | which the Japanese might have used. Samarinda, at the mouth of | the Kutai river, had a population {of 12,000 including 300 Europeans, {but ma non-essential civilians | hy planes was admitted.
{had been evacuated. Up to 120 Japanese bombin i e Japanese fighter planes, believed oo protected > many her (to be operating from an aircraft). taken part in two raids on the |carrier, today flew over wide areas Java base. Other Japanese planes, of Java, but no bombings were re- bombing and machine gunning, POE: took their attacks to within 190 The high command said the Jap-!miles of Batavia. anese lost two fighter planes and| Native youths and men in Java presumably two bombers in their|are clamoring to enlist in the said yesterday on Soerabaja, the|Netherlands air defense services. |
Libya: Heavy Toll Taken by R. A. F. In Raids on Axis in Libya
| CAIRO, Feb. 6 (U. P.).—British planes have destroyed many Axis | transport vehicles on the Libyan front and have killed many German and Italian troops in new attacks, a middle eastern command communique reported today. The communique said that there was no change in the land situation. “While there was no change in the land situation yesterday our air forces had a particularly suc-
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