Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1942 — Page 2

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HINESE OPEN THA INVASION

River, of Indian defense amount importance forces, estimated in t 70,000 troops, pushed |,

Burma, toward the gateway 3, but | it may be solved at|

y ‘a meeting of Chi-|

neralissimo Chiang Kai-

| Mahatma Gandhi at Cal-|

- pincers invasion "close Java the Japanese C3 assar, but the Dutch were

a Fears Attack. 3 invasion attempt at the

| Australian governtensified its total mobiliza-

v. H, J, Van Mook! §

States is rushing all orcements to the v i Pacific. British reported scoring air barine hits on two or three ers and a destroyer in the ean, in a three-day bat-

tle| to save an allied savoy. Two}

merchant ships were lost. A. F. Bombs ghazi

The R. A. F. bombed Benghazi in Lora and Tripoli as British patrols wide area of the Libyan po re without meeting the enemy. ussia, the Red Army smashed e German defensive line, ntly on the central front,

th enemy defenders in the Vyazma

and was battling to in in through

on the road to olensk. London, the mini of eco- ¢ warfare renewed warnings of lent German invasion, ase Nazis were concenuction of gliders and for an over-water

Feb. 18 (U. P.).—Air apore up to Feb. 3, ns and injured 3955, nounced officially today. European civilian casualties b. 14 were 15 killed or died unded and 73 miss-

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Older Churches Downtown Take Lead in Ancient

Services. (Continued from Page One)

Palm Sunday is observed’ by passing out palms, the traditional token of honor to ancient heroes. The palms that are left are saved, to be burned the next year in the observance of Ash Wednesday. The two churches have long stood near the center of Indianapolis, becoming almost lost from sight in the swift building up of the City’s commercial buildings. Christ Church was originally founded by the Rev. J. B. Britton, on July 4, 1837. -It-was received into the Epistopal diocese Nov. 20, 1838. The original church was sold and moved and the present structure was built in 1857. The chimes of Christ Church, which serve alternately to play hymns of rejoicing for happy feasts of the church, and threnodies during times such, as these, are played every noon by Fredrick Weber, assistant organist. The Rev. Powell has been rector of the church since the summer of 1931. Goes Back to 1850 The first St. John’s church was built in 1850 on the present site. That church faced Georgia St. The present building has been standing since 1867, and until‘ the erection .of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, was known as the “pro-Cathedral” of the diocese of Vincennes. Father Sheridan is pastor of St.

| John’s.

Both churches offer services every

: day at noon throughout Lent.

* All“ Saints’ Cathedral, 16th St. and Central Ave., will hold services throughout Lent several days a week. The Rev. Robert C. Kuebler, pas-

‘| tor of the Friedens Evangelical and

Reformed Church, will = conduct services at 7:45 o'clock tonight, and the choir, der the direction of Harry Micha Mich lis, will sing.

| SINGAPORE CALLED

‘CITY OF PRISONERS’

TOKYO, | Feb. 18 (Japanese

| broadcasts recorded by U. P. in {New York and San Francisco).—

d and sea forces have ) e occupation of Singapore, which (“has been turned into a city of war prisoners,” Domei

Japanese ; fleet

Sixty thousand imperials—15,000

of | British, 13,000 Australian and 32,000 fc | Indians—have been interned.

Japan celebrated the fall of

s | Singapore officially today. Premier . | Tojo warned that the war “has only

begun” and said the nation must “bend all its efforts with Italy and Germany until all our enemies are

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the seeds of their future undoing.

posed an Achilles heel to the united

§ |nations.

Operate Over 6000 Miles

To sum up the present Japanese position: They are operating over about 6000 miles from Burma to their own mandated islands. They are heavily committed in

% |China, which they have not been

able to subdue in four and 8 half

f | years,

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Yank Flier Meets Her ‘At Airport in Kunming. (Continued from Page One)

best looking. She really had what it takes. . Ed suggested showing them | the control room but I thought they’d rather have tea at our barracks. They only had a half hour so Ed growls, “Well, make up your minds.” The smart one with me decided on the tea and Ed drove like mad to the barracks. “I thought the ladies might want (to freshen up first so 1 brought some towels and soap. My ritzi Chinese doll asked me to hold her hand-bag while she washed her hands. We were getting along fine and brother, she sure did have. what it takes. I felt like I was getting: my first real break in this war. “Then we sauntered back to the others and some Chinese air officer asked my new Chinese lady friend: ‘Would you care for some tea now, madame?’ And the , way he said madame, knocked me right between the eyes. I took a deep breath and looked at Ed and Ed looked at me. We both felt kinda sick for a couple of minutes. “But Mme. Chiang Kai-shek just seemed to be having a wonderful time. She even told the Chinese colonel, ‘Lieut. Mickelson and Lieut. Leibolt have taken splendid care of us.

” ” ” “WELL, WE HAD to drive them back to their plane and of course that (lonely fellow in the long, black coat and muffler—the one we didn’t have room for, who got all our dust as we drove off—of course he was waiting. Ed and I hadn't been able to see his face so how were we to guess that he was Generalissimo of all China! “Bay, we sure put our necks out that time. “But let me tell you, Mme. Chiang is a knockout all right. ‘And I've still got that towel she -used.' . I'm going to take it home to Fergus Falls with me some day, no kidding.”

FRESH JAP TROOPS

BLAST MACARTHUR

(Continued from Page One)

the Japanese aerial and artillery assaults against General MacArthur's outnumbered forces and the arrival of still more Japanese troops in Subic Bay. There were strong indications that the Japanese were about to go “all out” in their attempts to drive General MacArthur from Luzon and back into Corregidor fortress. For the second day, General MacArthur reported, Japanese fliers bombed helpless women and children in an undefended refugee camp at Cabcaben on the southeast coast of Bataan Peninsula. . The Japanese, according to the best estimates available in Washington, have between 400,000 and 450,000 men in action on the fronts stretching for more than 4000 miles from the Philippines to the Indian ocean, but not including China, More than 200,000 of these troops, including. some of the best shock troops of the Japanese war

machine, are in the Philippines.

So long as the fighting rages on Bataan peninsula the Japanese cannot divert many men or weapons for their big fhrust at the Burma Road, at Sumatra and Java 1500 and 2000 miles: to the southwest across the China Sea.

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They are engaged in a thajor operation in Burma. They are trying to overwhelm Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes and Java. A large part of their fotces are involved in Manila.

Sticking Neck Out?

Under the circumstances, an attempted invasion of Australia and India might be equivalent to sticking her neck out. H. J. Van Mook, lieutenant governor of the Dutch Indies, observed in Sydney today that a large scale invasion of Australia would mean such a drain on Japanese forces and shipping that he does not think they will

try it.

The Indian Ocean naturally offers a tempting prospect to Japan. - Her naval forces now have unimpeded access to it past Singapore through the Strait of Malacca. The line of supplies from Britain and the

4 | United States flows past Capetown

Ashes of the palms used in Palm Sunday services last year are blessed by the Rev. Fr. Bernard Sheridan, pastor of St. John’s Catholic Church. The ashes, symbolizing humility and repentance, were put on the forehead of Catholics who went to churches throughout the city as a 40-day period of fasting, abstinence and ‘devotions preceding Easter was Yhened wiih Ash Wednesday,

to Suez, the Persian gulf, India and Japanese submarines undoubtedly soon will be operating in the Indian Ocean. To occupy Madagascar, with

Today's War Moyes.

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst . If Australian fears of a Japanese invasion are realized, and if Japan tries to attack India and push across the Indian Ocean to Madagascar, a suggested possibility, the ambitious Nipponese may be sowing

" There is a limit to Japan's ability to stretch out = her resources over about one-third of the globe. Japan already is spread rather thin, in an attempt to do everything at once before the might of the United States and Britain. make thems ? |selves felt. If this extension is continued too far, Japan will have ex-

Vichy’s connivance, as’ a base of operations closer to the Middle East shipping lanes would be a more ambitious project. S To take Madagascar ,and hold sway over the Indian Ocean would require considerable use of the Japanese -fleet .and. air .force.. It is a question whether Ja has enough to spare for that and still dominate the western Pacific. It would require a lage Jupanese force, continuously in operation, to. break off the United States established ‘to New ‘Zealand and Australia. oh Whittle Them Down If the Pacific fleet is weakened too much for Indian Ocean operations, the United States Navy has a chance to whittle down the Japanese outposts in the western Pacific one by one in a steady process of reconquest. The Navy's raid on the Marshall and Gilbert islands suggested the ‘pattern. / If Hitler tries to drive through to Suez and Japan across the Indian Ocean to meet him, Japan’s

rear might be exposed to the United States.

FDR WORKS ON SPEECH

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt began work today on the important address he will make to the nation Monday night. The White House said Mr. Roosevelt kept his schedule, for today virtually clear except for a noon conference with Undersecretary of

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