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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1941
Page
1
A Japanese force landed on Wake Island today, with the Navy reporting enemy units of unspecified strength arriving this morning. The Marines and island laborers beat off air attacks, marking the 13th assault on Wake since hostilities began, but the fate of the Devil Dogs resisting the landing member was not disclosed.
Japanese submarines sank the Union Oil Montebello and shelled the Richfield Larry Doheny off California. Survivors landed on the coast. Doheny reached port after gunfire. Detonations and gunfire were reported near Santa Cruz. Navy and Army bombers may have sunk two subs sighted near the shore.
Ottawa reports Canadian and British troops stubbornly defend three positions in Hong Kong while suffering heavy casualties. Brigadier J. K. Lawson is believed killed and Col. Patrick Hennessy killed by shell fire. two Canadian counterattacks failed as Japanese reinforcements arrive and press a continuous attack.
Tokyo reports a large Japanese air assault on Rangoon today targeting the airdrome hangars wharves railway station government offices and barracks. Several British fighters were shot down and some planes destroyed on the ground. The Japanese wing returned unscathed after the destruction witnessed.
President Roosevelt convened the United States-British war council at the White House with Churchill present. They expressed utmost confidence in defeating the war, noting unity of action in the Pacific and a focus on external knockouts of Germany.
President Roosevelt accepted a three point program from a labor industry conference aimed at uninterrupted wartime production. The plan bars strikes and lockouts, requires peaceful dispute settlement, and creates a war labor board to handle issues.
The Roosevelt commission investigating the Pearl Harbor attack has reached Honolulu. Chief Justice Owen J. Roberts leads the group and will report to the President in Washington after completing its inquiry.
Cairo dispatch reports imperial columns halting the Axis line of retreat on the Gulf of Sirte south of Bengasi. British air power claims a shattering blow with 64 Axis planes destroyed and 17 shot down in air combat, 37 on the ground at Jedabiya. Rommel may be forced to stand and fight at Bengasi.
Dewitt Mackenzie notes Churchill's Atlantic voyage as a bold wartime gesture aimed at uniting the Allies. The Washington meeting strengthens Allied morale at a critical moment and signals decisive coordination of military and production efforts. The Pacific battle remains risky with Far East bases in danger.
German troops were reported moving through western occupied France toward the Spanish frontier. The dispatch followed Hitler’s Sunday proclamation after assuming command of the German land forces that the front from Norway to the Spanish border must be consolidated.
Indications spread that Hitler could launch a desperate offensive to compensate for Russian losses as Allied leaders coordinate strategy. Reports say Vichy France refused full Axis entry, Sweden blocked troop passage to Finland, and top German generals were dismissed or offered resignations amid debates over a Spain to France thrust.
Moscow reports Red Army troops regain ground along the defense arc and occupy the railway junction of Gorbachevo, about 150 miles southwest of the capital, as fighting drives Germans back in the Red attack.
Soviet forces push forward under blizzard conditions driving German troops back toward the Volkhov river southeast of Leningrad. Advances extend fifty miles west of Tikhvin and 110 miles east of Leningrad as supply lines reopen and food shipments improve in Leningrad.
Franz Weisblatt reports from Lingayen on December 23 that American planes and tanks push back Japanese invaders near Santo Tomas as US and Filipino forces defend along a line north of Agoo and San Fernando. Japanese transport losses are hinted at, with 3 000 to 5 000 men feared sunk. civilians are wounded by air raids as battle rages.
British submarines destroyed six Axis transports in the Mediterranean. One large supply ship, damaged earlier by a torpedo, was beached with Axis sailors attempting salvage when it was torpedoed and destroyed.
Federal grand jury indicts Laura Ingalls of New York, 32, famed female pilot, for failing to register as a foreign agent. The charge alleges she served as a publicity agent for Baron Ulrich Von Gienanth, second secretary of the German em...
Army headquarters announced sharp fighting remained in northern Luzon with no change in positions since yesterday when Japan landed strong forces at Santo Tomas about 125 miles from Manila. Observers say American Filipino troops north of Damortis checked Japanese advance southward. Reports to 9 pm not sufficient for a special communique.
The Tucson Daily Citizen urges Americans to buy defense bonds and stamps to help defeat Japan. Citizens are asked to contribute regularly, with bonds as low as $18.75 and stamps from 10 cents, available at banks post offices and some retailers.
Allied reports say heavy fighting raged along the Lingayen Gulf plain with Japanese invaders very active in the air while American airmen reportedly hammered them from above. Independent accounts claim a bombing and naval gunfire defense near Santo Tomas and Damortis.
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