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LONDON, ‘March 10 [(U.
lied themselves with th Japanese, » military revealed today.
aiding Japan was made when the British sloop Hindustant surprised a landing party at the mouth of the
Rangoon river, March 6, {and cap-|
tured one of the big fla -batiomed ‘boats. In if was one Japanese officer and 55 Burmese soldiers. e other boats scattered and esca; Later they were machine-gunngd by R. A, PF, fliers but they had landed their troops. com= thentator sid it was boats. also had been I native troops. The commentator was ble to state to what extent the Japanese
were using Burmese atives or whether they were “raising three Burmese armies” as y have claimed. He said there probaly, Were many malcontents, whom he d bed as “traitors,” left over the insurrections of 1931. { in
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Sinks or Disables One- Third Of Enemy -Cruisers, Plane Carriers.
"WASHINGTON, March 10 (U.P). —United States naval and air forces,
|they have taken in the Pacific, were said by naval experts to have sunk or damaged about one-third of the cruisers and aircraft carriers Japan
possessed at the start of the war. The heavy losses in aircraft car«
vital to the support of Japan’s seaborne invasions, are likely to prove
ture plans, they said. Since the start of the war 82
Japanese warships, auxiliary vessels and transports have been sunk by American forces against the actual loss of only eight American naval vessels and three transports in the Pacific. Subs Sink 2 Jap Ships
The U. 8. fleet has suffered damage to about 15 warships, mostly destroyers, in the Pacific sea war while naval communiques show damage to 56 enemy ships. A naval communique late yesterday revealed that American submarines within a week had sunk two Japanese vessels—a heavy destroyer and a big tanker—and “definitely crippled” an aircraft carrier The bag brought to 138 the number of Japanese naval vessels sunk or damaged by American forces in
Java:
Dutch Admit Armistice. at Bandoeng Asked to Avoid Massacre of Civilians
the Pacific, including 16 sunk by submarines, and 83 ships sunk, damaged or put out of action by American naval forces alone.
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dren, were trapped, It was not known here whether the small United fitates force and the British and Australian forces fighting with the Netherlands East Indies army had heen affected by the armistice. Tragic Story Related The Dutch office's told a tragic story of Japanese aerial superiority which led to the Bandoeng armistice plea. “Battalion after battalion broke under the strain, shocked and demoralized by the bombing,” one
They estimated that the Japanese had landed another 50,000 men in
MELBOURNE, Australia, March (U. P.)~—Netherlands officers, arriving from Java, confirmed today that the Dutch forces had asked
an armistice in the Bandoeng area where some troops and practically the . entire European population, including many women and chil-
60,000 men,
to avoid a massacre of the civilians trapped in the city after a heavy bombing last Friday. All Ports Are Closed The officers confirmed that all important ports of Java had been closed and that Japanese cruisers and submarines were lying off the south coast port of Tjilatjap, last hope for escape, to prevent vessels from leaving or entering. Tjilatjap, they said, was in flames after a bombing by 100 Japanese planes. Batavia, capital of the Netherlands East Indies, was declared an open city, the officers said, and was undamaged by fighting. The Dutch officers said Japanese troops were treating Europeans roughly and natives relatively well.
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Philippines:
Cruiser Shells Important Port;
MacArthur Waits Nazi-Style Drive
WASHINGTON, March 10 (U. P.).—A Japanese cruiser has shelled the important por: of Cebu, 300
i miles soutly of Manila and second
city of the Philippines, in an ap-
4 | parent effort to tighten the in-
vaders’ control of ea communications preparatory to a new offensive against Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s forces, it was revealed today. Cebu, city of 145,000 population
ments of supplies and reinforcements and to Sulu. sea, south of Negros and Cebu. . A foreboding calm hung over the Bataan jungle battlefront, the war department said, where Gen. MacArthur's men braced themselves for a “Nazi-style” . Japanese offensive that may be more savage than any they have met and crushed in their 13 weeks of amazing resist-
Java last Saturday and that they had now three divisions, or up to near Soerabaja, the naval base at the east end of Java. The officers said that the Dutch asked the Bandoeng armistice only
Heavy Blows to Cfuisers
The Japanese fleet has suffered particularly heavy blows to its cruiser and aircraft carrier strength —20 cruisers sunk or damaged and one aircraft carrier sunk, another “probably sunk” and two others damaged. On Dec. 7 the Japanese, according to navy department information, had eight aircraft carriers in service and 10 under construction. The Japanese fleet at that time was believed to have had 46 cruisers and 10 being built, compared with 37 American cruisers and 54 being built. The United States had seven aircraft carriers and 10 more under
dealing eight blows for every one|
“Iriers and cruisers, both categories | |_A*
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Against Trapped Army.
LONDON, March 10 (U. PJ
trated Smolensk to burn Nazi wares
| houses filled with food, clothing and smmunition, dispatches’ said
BATTLESHIPS : AIRCRAFT CARRIERS CRUISERS DESTROYERS SUBMARINES
14 45 69
3 12 86 320 340
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the Lovat river for operation” against the (Nazi 16th army at: Staraya’ a Moscow reports said. Letters found on German ers reported that the food sit of the trapped Germans was ois ing desperate. ya
2 Big Attacks in South The Germans themselves admit-
TOTALS 134
396 259
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ted that the Russians had. started
A showdown appeared near in the Vichy poker game today, in view of unconfirmed reports that France had turned over 40 new warships to Germany. These, according to unverified charges by Russia, were incompleted when France collapsed, and apparently have been placed in service since the armistice.
However, regardless of the reported existence and surrender of the new ships, if Vichy complies completely |
with Hitler's demands to turn over French naval units still in Vichy hands, the axis would be brought close to naval parity with the United States and Britain, as shown by the above chart. This chart does not include the new vessels already reported turned over to the nazis.
signed to knock the invaders from the springboard they might use for a thrust toward the oil flelds ‘of the Caucasus. } The German radio said the main Russian attack. was being delivered with * tanks, artillery and 90,000 troops somewhere along the ‘50-mile
construction.
Allies Weld Resources for War Output
By DAVID M. NICHOL
Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times
and The Chicago Daily News. Inc.
WASHINGTON, March 10.—Activity in Washington indicated progress today in the gigantic job of welding the manpower and resources of the united nations into a single weapon against the axis and its Japanese ally. Closer co-operation and the fuller use ‘of potential capacities was the key. The program was highlighted by a two-hour conference late yesterday between the president and John G. Winant, U, S. ambassador in London, and by the announcement at the state department of the personnel of a- new advisory mission to India. Emerging from the long conference in the executive offices last night, Mr. Winant said that the principal reason for his visit here was an effort to improve co-opera-tion between the two governments.
losing its backing in England.
“trust : Churchill, trusts the British people.” Somewhat paralleling England's experience in the blitz, Ambassador Winant said the “production, efficiency and drive” of the British
a result of the far eastern setbacks. The British, he added have ‘“confidence” in the Russians. At the same time Mr. Winant disposed of reports that he might not return to his post in London, Shortly before Mr. Winant’s White House conference, the state department announced the India mission’s personnel in a form which left little doubt that their chief job is one of building India into a new and powerful arsenal for the fighting in the Far East.
Mr. Winant discounted reports that the Churchill government is
“The British. people,” he said, and: Churchill
had been increased considerably as
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appropriations’ committee by Edministrator.
allies. INDIA STATEMENT DELAYED
liament. day.
secretary of war, will head the mis-
Its ‘purpose becomes even clearer in the light of recent testimony before a subcommittee of the house
ward R. Stettinius Jr, lend-lease ad-
He told the committee that since United States’ entry into the war congress had appropriated money directly to the army and navy for the military requirements of the
LONDON, March 10 (U, P.).— Sir Stafford Cripps, government leader, told the house of commons today that Prime Minister Winston Churchill will make a statement
on India at the next sitting of parIt had been expected to-
front between Taganrog and Stalino. The second Russian attack in the south, according to the Germans, was around Kharkov, where heavy fighting was raging. In the Donets area for the first time this year “general mud” has made an appearance. At night the temperature in that area falls below zero, but by day. the warm sun thaws the frozen ground. Roads are.turning into bogs.
Delay Spring Offensive?
‘A dispatch passed by German censors from the Berlin corres spondent of the Stockholm news paper Dagens Nyheter said the German spring offensive cannot be expected before May or June. The factors involved in the delay were said to.be a shortage of tanks; the loss of some advanced striking bases, such as Yukhnov, and the reduced effectiveness of some—such as Rzhev, Kharkov and Staraya Russa—and Russian control of! seve eral important railway ‘systems, which has reduced German mobility 70 per cent.
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in the heart of the Philippine|20°e:
archipelago, is a central point of the Visayas isiands, It dominates| Last Tuesday Japanese naval
ssages vital to Japan’ _| vessels including a cruiser and fhe Ya pe Japar’s Tove. several destroyers shelled scattered
points in the Philippines, including Cebu city and Argao on Cebu island. Military officials said Lieut. Gen. Gomoyuki Yamashita, fresh from his conquests of Malaya and Singapore, presumably would unleash a full-scale assault in the Philippines at the earliest opportunity. Yamashita, sent to replace Lieut. Gen. Masaharu Homma who is reported to have committed harakiri to escape disgrace because of his military failures, undoubtedly bore instructions from Japanese leaders in Tokyo to crush Gen. MacArthur at all costs. Uses Prussian Tactics “He is a hard-driving commander, as Prussian as he is Japanese in his| tactics, and you can be sure that | he is now busily reorganizing Japan’s 200,000 or more troops in the Philippines for what may well be Gen. MacArthur’s supreme hour,” one official said. War department quarters believe that Yamashita would launch his attempted “knockout” with: 1. Heavy emphasis on German methods learned when he visited Germany a year ago to study Nazi warfare and became an ardent champion of “blitz” warfare. 2. Greater use of planes against Gen, MacArthur's little army, which possesses only a handful of P-40 fighters. Yamashita in 1840 became director general of the Japanese army’s air corps.
NAME 2 WHO SANK CRUISER _ WASHINGTON, March 10 (U. P)~—Maj. Henry T. Elrod of Thomasville, Ga., and Capt. Frank Cunningham Tharin of Washingjton were identified by the navy today as the two marine aviators who sank a Japanese cruiser off
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