Britain Loses Kota Bharu Air Base in Malaya Campaign
Singapore dateline reports British forces appeared to lose Kota Bharu the northern Malaya air base as Japanese landings pressed near the Thailand frontier. Communique says Japanese tanks trapped and destroyed Kedah area. British reorgained south of Kota Bharu with light casualties. Details note Japanese drives at Kuantan and heavy fighting across a wide zone. Dutch air units join British Empire forces as they contest Japan's air assault and reinforce the eastern fleet in the China Sea. Singapore alarms and Butterworth air battle are mentioned with raiders downed.
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Singapore
Kota Bharu
Malaya
Thailand
Kuantan
Here
Kedah
Netherlands East Indies
Asia
Japan
Britain
China Sea
Butterworth
Penang Island
Axis Nationals Arrested in U S Hearings Planned
Attorney General Francis Biddle announced 2,803 Axis nationals have been detained by the federal government. Among them 1,291 Japanese, 865 Germans and 147 Italians, with many to be held in concentration camps supervised by the Army. Naturalization filings by German and Italian immigrants will be suspended for the war. A board will conduct informal hearings on dangerous cases, reporting to Biddle, who will make final decisions. Some detainees may gain freedom or receive permanent paroles.
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Washington
Francis Biddle
Army
Biddle
Axia
Hawaiian Islands
United States
FBI
Justice
War Departments
Forts
Montana
North
Dakota
New Mexico
Leo T. Crowley
Federal Deposits Insurance Corp
Justice Department
Seattle
U S Writers Barred In Berlin Ruling
Berlin reporting correspondents were barred from an official press conference and ordered home by German officials. In Washington the FBI detained Kurt Sell, a DNB correspondent, with credentials seized. A New York report said DNB reporters there had also been seized. A motorist in England had vandalized telephone booth coin boxes.
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Berlin
Mineister
Paul Schmidt
Foreign Office Press Department
United States
Schmidt
Frederick C. Oechsner
Joseph W. Grigg
The
United Press
Hugo Speck
International’ News ‘Service
Louis Lochner
Associated Press
Alex, Small
Chicago Tribune
John Dickson
Mutual Broadcasting System
Washington
U.P
Federal
Bureau of Investigation
Kurt Sell
DNB
FBI
Sell
New York
England
Supply Routes To Asia In Pacific War Broadcast
United Press report from San Francisco claims the Japanese blitzkrieg has cut U.S. supply routes to Asia and that Japan is prepared to concentrate on a East Asia sphere. The broadcast alleges Langley sunk in the Gulf of Davao and a British patrol boat in Hong Kong harbor, with other claims of carrier losses and Hong Kong riots.
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San Francisco
United Press
Pacific
United States
Asia
Japan
East-Asia
Sno Naval
San
Langley
Gulf of Davao
Philippine’ Islands
Hong Kong
Enterprise
Pearl Harbor
Hong -Kong
Hong Konng
Flashlight profiteering urged in war coast reports
Washington reports urge civilians to report flashlight bulb and battery profiteering in coastal areas as air raids loom. A two hour guard on Arizona highways surveys bridges over the Colorado River, with Boulder Dam crossing under federal guard. Price Chief Henderson set war emergency price levels for flashlights and related goods.
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Washington
U.P
Phoenix
Arizona
Highway Department
Colorado
California
Boulder Dam
Office of Price Adation
Leon Henderson
United States
Henderson
OPA
Arizona Officers Get FBI Training For War Time Duties
Northern Arizona law enforcement officers attend a FBI school in Phoenix for wartime emergency duties. Eighty two officers participate as the course continues this week. A Tucson session for southern Arizona offices was postponed to February 9.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Tucson
Tucson Couple Safe in Honolulu Navy Officer
Mr and Mrs Thomas F Knight survived the Japanese attack Sunday on the Hawaiian Islands without injury. Knight, a U S destroyer officer and University of Arizona graduate, was married in September and headed to Honolulu with his wife Mrs F W Sharman of 11216 North Cherry Avenue serving as her mother.
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Thomas F. Knight
Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Nurses Ready to Serve Again in World War II
New York City unit of the Women's Overseas Service League, 250 members strong, notified President Roosevelt that they are ready to go abroad again. The national organization lists 2,100 members. In a separate note, Ireland produced the greatest quantity of food in its history.
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New York
Roosevelt
New York City
Women’s Overseas Service League
Last American steamship service to Lisbon halted
New York, Dec. 10. The last American steamship service to Europe, the American Expert lines' New York Lisbon run, has been discontinued, the company said today. Lisbon is the steamship outlet for Americans and refugees fleeing Europe, with Portuguese and Spanish ships continuing to make uncharged voyages to bring refugees.
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New York
Europe
New York-Lisbon
Lisbon
Nations declare war on Japan count rises to eighteen
The Associated Press reports eighteen nations are at war with Japan including the United States, England, Canada, France, Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Mexico and Cuba among others. China has declared war on Germany and Italy. Diplomatic ties with Japan broken by Mexico and Colombia.
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Japan
United States
England
Netherlands
East Indies
Costa Rica
Canada
China
Haifa
el Salvador
Honduras
France
Dominican “Republic
Nicaragua
Guatemala
Australia
New Zealand
Panaima
Union of South Africa
Cuba
Mexico
Columbia
Germany
Italy
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