Week’s News Round-up
By Associated Press
OVER THE WEEKEND
Knox To Hawaii
Honolulu— Secretary of the
Navy Knox arrived at Honolulu
to make personal investigation.
Washington— The navy an
nounces patrol planes scored
bomb bits on Japanese battleship
of the Kongo class off Lujson.
Chicago— General Robert
Wood announced dissolution of
the American First Committee,
and urged followers to support
the nation’8 war effort.
Dutch East Indies—Nether
land’s subs sank four Japanese
troop transports "off southern
Thailand.
Tokyo— Headquarters here
obliquely conceded the American
forces were still holJing out at
Wake island when they said 8
American planes were shot down
in aerial attacks on Wake.
Tokyo—Reports from here
say the battleship Arizona was
lost in action at Hawaii.
Hongkong—Japanese troops
captured Kowlon on the main
land facing Hongkong, still hold
ing out.
Shanghai—Dispatch here said
Honolulu had undergone 6 air
raid 9 hours after Secretary
Knox arrived.
MONDAY
Knox Reports
Washington—Knox reported
the battleship Arizona and 5
other warships were lost in the
fyarl Harbor air raid, and 91
Officer's and 263$ enlisted men
hnown dead. The known Japan
ese loses, Knox said, included 3
submarines and 41 planes. After
Knox reported to the President
after his return from his 5-day
trip he told press Conference that
besides the Arizo.ia the other
ships destroyed included the old
target ship Utah, 3 destroyers
(Cassin, Downes a id bhaw) the
mine layer Oglala. Damaged ves
sels included the o'd battleship
Oklahoma, which capsized bul
can be prepaired, but that “th(
entire balance of the fleet, its
aircraft carriers, heavy cruisers,
light cruisers, destroyers and sub
marines were all uninjured, and
are at sea seeking to contact the
enemy.”
He said ‘‘the Japanese failed
in their effort to knock us out be
fore the war began.”
Knox said flatly “the U. S.
services were not on the alert a
garnst a surprise air attack.”
A formal investigation, he said,
will be instituted by the Presi
dent immediately, but in the
meantime he said no changes in
command would be made.
He also revealed that the Jap
anese used 2-men submarines.
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Bill of Rights
Washington—Roosevelt told
his countrymen on the anniver
sary of the Bill of Rights that
they are faced now with an at
tempt to cancel out ‘‘the great
upsurge of human liberty” em
bodied in that document, and to
impose again “absolute authority
of a despotic rule”, but he de
clared “we will not under any
threat of in the face of any dan
ger surrender the guarantees of
liberty that our forefathers fram
ed for us in our Bill of Rights.”
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