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No. 35
This map is scaled to 500 miles per inch. The East Indies- are under terrific
attack. The Japs drove hardto gain footholds in the Indies before reinforcements
could be brought up. When Singapore fell idto the hands of the enemy Sunday, 60,000
British citizens and soldiers were captured. Singapore, population 1, 500,000 con
trolled the trade route from the British Isles thru the Mediterranean to India, Aus
tralia and New Zealand. In capturing the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, its south
ern tip, the Japs have acquired the source of three-fourths of the tin and three
fifths of the rubber used in the United States, according to World Almanac. The
Malay States are the greatest source of tin in the world and rubber trees practical
ly sover the Malay States. _
Port Darwin, Australia, is now subject
to air raids by the Japs. One,on Thurs
day, waged by 100 Jap planes lasted more
than an hour but were routed by anti-air
craft fire and less than 30 Australian
and American bombers.
At the time this is written, Java and
Darwin are the last major bases remaining
in Allied possession in the South Pacific.
The Japs have complacently re-named
Singapore already. We811 bet its name
is again Singapore before many moons have
waned. They've named it Krilon meaning
"Light of the South."
The TJ. S. Destroyer Shaw,which the Japs
claimed they sunk at Pearl Harbor,is re
ported by the Navy to have arrived at a
west coast port under its own power.
Australia is the largest continental
island on the earth. It i8 almost as
large as the United States. Australia
has an area of 2,974,581 square miles;the
area of continental United States is 3,
o26,789 square miles. However, Australia'!
population is about the same as New York
City.
The passing of another prominent sour
i dough is marked with the death of Hubbard
Hunt Clark r„t his home in Hope, on Feb
ruary 1. He was buried in the Clark
family burial ground at Hope on February
3. Mrs. Warren N. Nutter read the fun
eral service and recited The Lord's Pray
er.
Mr. Clark came to Hope in 1913. He
is survived by his wife and two sons,
Earl and Carl, all of whom were with him
when death came. Four grandchildren
survive him.
Thruout the years, Mr. Clark engaged
in mining and was also a valued employee
of the Bureau of Public Roads.
Jack Shields' big Keystone drill at
Mile 58 was this week shipped to Norman
Stinnes who will operate it in placer
mining in the Cache Creek field not far
from Talkeetna. Mr. Shields and Denney
McCart uprooted the huge machine and de
livered it at the railroad siding.
Moose Pass depot has been moved to
Mile 18 to be camped in in shifts by the
i workers on the new bridge.