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JAPS TAKE SARAWAK CAPITAL, 475 MILES FROM SINGAPORE(Continued from page 1))tnounced the capture of Ipoh,Malayan tin mining center 290miles north of Singapore, andKuching, capital of Sarawak.Imperial headquarters also asserted that 10 American ships totalling 70,000 tons have been sunk by Japanese submarines off Hawaii and the United States mainland up to December 25, whilo eight others totalling another 70,-000 tons were damaged.The situation on Japan's multiple fronts as claimed in a series of communiques broadcast by the news agency Domei:Philippines—Heavy air raids on Manila’s docks and harbor objectives, on the nearby United States naval base of Cavite. Intensive fighting raged on all ground fronts in Luzon with the Japanese less than 100 miles from Manila in the drive southward from Lingayea gulf.Push Southward.•Malaya — Japanese troops are pushing southward in pursuit of the retreating British, after capturing Ipoh whose fall opens to the Japanese advance for the first time modern roads and methods of transportation for ar**power drive toward Singapore.Borneo—Kuching fell after a four-day assault and the Japanese thereby gained oil and other precious natural ‘resources while the British lost important air bases.” The Japanese navy operating off shore downed ID planes and destroyed two submarines while losing one destroyer and one minesweeper.China—Japanese troops crossing swollen Milo river occupied four key points In northeastern Hunan province, including Kewiyi, about 50 miles north of Changsha, provincial capital,Meanwhile Masayuki Tanl, head of the government information bureau, said negotiations were under way at Kuibyshev, Russia, for an extension of Japan's fishing rights in Russian coastal waters, ,Tht agreement expires Dec. 31.Premier General Hidek! To jo will fly tomorrow to the grand shrines of Ise, 250 mile3 southwest of Tokyo, to report to the sun goddess, Amaterasu O Mi Kami, on the outbreak of the East Asia wE and to pray for victory.
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Joplin, Missouri, US
Tue, Dec 30, 1941
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