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Dutch Airmen Hit TransportReported Sumatra ’Chutist Attack Declared BasedJ On ErrorBATAVIA. N. E. I., Dec. 29.—^ —The , Dutch army air force has resumed the Indies' interrupted onc-a-day toll of Japanese shipping by scoring a direct hit on a trans-portioff the harbor of Miri in Sara* wak,! it was announced today.Aneta news agency/ which released the communique, said it had no confirmation of Manila radio reports that 12 more Japanese troopships had been sunk by Dutch planes off Davao in the Philippines. But the communique did credit the squadron of American-built Martin bombers which raided Miri with shooting down “probably’' two Japr^se fighter planes.Though the communique gave a detailed account of the Japanese attack on the airport at Medan on Sumatra yesterday, in which 30 persons were killed* 70 wounded and the airdrome was damaged, there was no further official word on the Japanese parachute troops which were reported to have been landed simultaneously within 10 miles of Medan.’Chutist Report ErroneousObservers saw this official silence as an indication the Japanese, in their last effort to effect a landing on Indies territory, had not been able to do so in sufficient force to constitute a serious threat.(Quoting a Batavia communique as its authority. NNC announced that “the reports of a Japanese parachute landing on Medan in Sumatra are based on a misunder-19 Survivors Rescued 4! From Torpedoed mmt |SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29—lt;IHS) —All but two men aboard the torpedoed Matson freighter Manini were accounted for today after the g 12th naval district announced that | 19 more survivors were rescued | near the island of Oahu. ‘jThe Manini was sent to the tom of the Pacific Dec. 17, the vie- ' tim of a Japanese submarine at^ j tack. /Twelve men who endured nine \ harrowing days in two open life* „ boats were picked up Saturday. I?While not disclosing details of the rescue, the navy said all the ; rescued men, including CapL George Sidon of San Francisco,were safe.One nf New York’s Fifth avenue bookstores reports’ that its steady , best-seller is not the latest novel but Frazer’s “Golden Bough.”standing from the Japanese air raid on this town/1)It was learned however, that the Japanese had followed up the Sumatra attack by dropping leaflets over the northern part of the island. Crudely lettered in English and Malayan, they were said to btf) similar to those dropped on Singa- -pore on Christmas day and read:“Stand up hand in hand with one accord. Burn to death the white devils with the blazing, sacred lire of victory/' ,Stuffed Ornngti Brand fed PaactiM Tiny Baby WafermaloitfBROTHERTON'S FOO* MARKETWaxhmalon end *our*oard StrMto
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Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Tue, Dec 30, 1941
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