Week’s News Highlights
Pacific Front
ViaC^P)—Allied warships arc
reported shelling Japan’s inva
sion armies swarming down the
Malay jungle coast 60 miles north
of Singapore. The United anti
axis nations were further hear
tened by Roosevelt’s disclosure
that ‘ the Yanks are coming,”
and that vanguards of the
American Exiditiooary forces are
already in action or en route to
the far flung battle zones in the
Philippines.
A war bulletin said MacArth
ur’s valiaDt American-Philipine
defense forces had driven back
the invaders with heavy losses
* in particulary savage fighting”
on Baten peninsula.
The communique said the Jap
anese troops gained ‘‘some ini
tial successes” in infiltrations
during f ontal attack near the
center of their line but the coun
ter attacking U. S. army forces
hurled them back and recaptur
ed all the lost ground. The com
munique said ‘‘enemy losses were
heavy and our casualties rela
tively moderate.”
In the far north main battle
sector on upper Luzon is
land the War department said a
guerdla band of MacArthur’s
forces staged a suprise raid on a
Japanese airfield at Tugeugaro,
killing 110 enemy troops and
putting 300 others to flight. Con
cidentally, the Russian news
paper Red Star estimated about
6000 American and 32,000 Fili
pino native troops are opposing
the 100,000 Japanese on Luzon.
An offi 'ial Tokyo broadcast
asserted that allied warships en
tered the critical battle of Singa
pore even as Japan’s navy minis
ter Vice-Adnrral Shimada boast
ed that the Japanese had ‘vir
tually command of the Pacific
from Malaya to the West coast
of the U. S.” On the same exult
ant note Premier Tojo asserted
Japan planned “increasingly vig
orous operations” in the Pacific
and would continue fighting
until the U. S. and Britain “are
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brought to their knees.”
Japan’s dispatches said the
battle flages of the Rising Sun
are advancing southward along
the Malayan West coast “in
spite of gunfire of enemy ships
in the Strait of Malacca which
lies between the Malay peninsula
and the Dutch East Indies island
of Sumatra
Russia
London (A1)—The Russian
command announced the capture
of Mozhaist. This was the first
word of the situation there. 57
miles west of Moscow, since th<
army paper Red Star announced
earlier that Red troops were
fighting the Germans in the
streets, with the city in flames.
Some hundred thousand crack
German troops were reported in
the Mozhaisk salient, with three
divisions defending the city it
self.
Missionaries Slain
A Chunking army communi
que said that Japanese slew all
American missionaries on Nainan
island after the outbreak of war
in the Pacific. It mentioned the
names of Rev. and Mrs. D. A.
Thomas ami Miss M. Burkwnll,
nurse, among those slain.
Robiason*Zivlc Bout
New York (^)—Ray Robin
son, Harlem’s skinny negro slug
ger with less than two year’s
professional experience, stopped
veteran Fritzie Zivic in ten
rounds and won a shot at the
welterweight championship. Ro
binson weighed in at 141 3-4 and
Zivic, 148.
After dropping Zivic with a
long overhand right hand smash
in the ninth, Ray came back
with a two-fisted explosion in the
tenth.
Basketball
Basketball scores: Washington
60, Oregon 34; Southern Califor
nia 58, California 46.
Washington
Washington (JP) — The Presi
dent assured his press conference
that the U. S. is contributing to
the war against the axis in al
most every part of the globe. He
said he could not be specific, hut
told reporters to look at a map of
the world and said they could as
sume we are doing something
there.
The remarks were of a type t»
givo reassurance to China and
Australia, where some uneasiness
is reported over the possibility
that American supplies might go
more to the battle against Hitler
than to the fight against Japan.
Washington (^P) — The War
and Navy departments announ
ced support of the “principle”
claimed by interested legislators
in the purposed legislation re
quiring enlisted men in the arm
ed services to al ot $15 monthly
to the pay of dependents, wives
and children, with the govern
ment matching or bettering that
with an additional allowance.
Such a system was adopted six
months after the U. S. entered
the World War in 1917.
Columbus (.-P)—Colonel Kress
Muhlenberg was found innocent
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