Week’s News Highlights
Dutch East Indies
Dutch East Indies {JP)—Gen
eral Wavell, commander of the
new allied Far East command ar
rived at the D lUii i.,-) ir.d e
and has already hrme’-cd a scrie
of dynamic counter blow attain-1
the Japanese invasion forces, mil
itary dispatches said- Dutch
troops are reported moving intc
action on the border of the king
dom of Sarawak, wftere Japanese
troops seized the capital of Kuch
ing, most northern territory,
Wavell’s second command
Lieut. Gen. George Brett, form
er cheif of the U. S. Army Air
Corps, arrived at the same time
to help direct the strategy.
A Dutch communique said 18
Japanese were killed in prelimi
nary skirmishes on the Sarawak
frontier with the loss of only one
Dutch soldier. Dutch Ind es sol
diers wqre.a so reported battling
hand to hand with the Japanese
mvaders near Lake Tondano on
the northwest tip of the Celebes
island,
A Tokyo broadcast said the
Japanese forces had captured
Kakas airdrome at Menado,
chief port on Minahassa penin
sula. Celebes island is across the I
Celebes sea from Borneo.
Simultaneously Dutch war
planes bombed Japanese-occu
pied Tarakan island off the coast
of Dutch north Borneo and a
Japanese'base for the southern
Philippines.
This base is presumably Da
vao, on Minanao island 600 miles
south of Manila, which the Jap
anese are believed to be using
for a jumping off place for the
invasion of the Dutch Indies.
A U.S Aimy bulletin said
three American bombers fighting
with the Dutch Indies forces at
tacked Japanese warships near
Tarakan and destroyed at least
two enemy lighters. The Ameri
can planes returned to an undis
closed base, undamaged, the
communique said.
Russia
Russia (.P)—Russian froop6
are reported advancing within a
bundled miles of Hitler’s winter
eadquarters at Smok>n<k. while
in the south the Red army forces
were pictured as storming the
outer gates of Kharkov, Russia’s
“Pittsburg.”
In the Ukraine the Soviet mil
itary dispatches said the collapse
of the German wing was knock
ed out. and said the whole front
vvas now in motion.
The Russians declared Hitler’s
reeling armies lost 200,000 killed
between Nov. 16 and Jan. 6 and
said 20,000 were slain in the re
cent fighting in the Doncth liver
industrial basin.
Soviet troops are described
now as battering heavily against
the German defense at Mozhaisk
where a Nazi garrison of 100,000
men still held out despite the
danger of being trapped by the
Russian pincers closing in the
iiurth and south.
German military quarters ack
nowledged the Russians had
broken the Mozhaisk lines, but
asserted them in a counter attack
which cost the Russians 300
dead.
North Africa
North Africa (-P)— The Bri
tish noted increasing axis aerial
activity but reported that the
advance Imperial troops are
driving forwaid in pursuit of
Rommel’s retreating army south
of Elagheila, 90 miles southwest
of the old battle sector of Aged
abia. .
Alaska’s 1942 license plates are
white with black numerals, as
are the states of Missouri, New
Mexico, Tennessee, Utah, Wyo
ming an Virginia. Hawaii’s are
white on black. Georgia is the
only state using three colors
red, white and blue.
Washington
Washington (A5)—Roosevelt
created a one-man control over
America’s vast war production
effort with ail power concent
rated in Donald M. Nelson as
generalissimo of supplies.
The surprise announcement
given out abont two hours
before Wendell L Wilkie was
was to go on the air with a de
mand that a one-man control be
set. up to end ’‘debating society”
methods. Nelson, 53, came to the
government as a dollar-a-year
man from a position as vice
president of Sears, Roebuck.
Washington (A>)—The office
of Production Management has
extended until February 2
the ban on sales of new passen
ger automobiles and trucks,
pending completion of details of
the rationing program.
Ottawa (.P)—The government
has announced that all enemy
aliens are to be removed from
the defense areas of British Col
umbia, where some 25,000 Jap
anese dwell. The only exception
vili be those holding police per
mits to remain.
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