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Tuesday Afternoon, March 3, 1942IF NOT, why not become)utch, AlliesAttack Invaders■ ♦Quezon Greets M’Arthur_ t'(continued from page one). - ► *v?.een under siege for many weeks,fut indicated that the Japanese Vere attempting to extend their ccupation of the southern Philippines.On the American home front, he Navy announced that the US estroyer Jacob Jones was sunk .y an enemy submarine before .awn Feb. 28 off Cape May, NJ, nd that only 11 men of the de-troyer’s crew survived. The nor-Informed London quarters, owever, said the defendersrill faced a formidable taskIthough they were fightingextremelv well.”!Waves of Japanese bombers, J ;cor?ed by fighters, heavily DUnded Bandoer.g f_r an hour id a half, with only a bare hand-i\ of Allied planes available to ~ght off the attack.Even antiaircraft fire, it was ‘cknowledged, failed to beat off le raiders. Aneta, the Dutch news agency,ild two persons were known riled, but full casualty figures'ere not immediately forthcom-.OLD FOE IN BtRMAWhile the Dutch declared the iree invasion columns had been •mpoiariJy halted, it seemed clear lat with the indicated dwindling f Allied'aerial strength the posi-on was still supremely critical. On the Burma front, British nd imperial Indian troops now nder direction of Gen. Sir Archi-ald P. Wavell, who was shifted *om Java to lead the joint Bur-la-India defense, were reported olding firmly along the Sittang wer line.A full-scale new Japanese as-ault was believed in the offing,owever, after eight days of vir-4jal stalemate.One note of optimism sounded ut of the general darkness of theava situation.It can be stated without reser-ation that the situation remainsrell in hand on all fronts,an uthorized Dutch spokesman saidite tonight, Java time.A bulletin from NEI headquar-?rs said Allied troops, “showing plendid offensive spirit,” were ighting in close contact with the ivaders and that the Japanese ad made no advance since Sun-ay in any of the three landingreas of Java.The communique said a Dutch ubmarine had sunk a big enemyanker off the coast of the em-attled island.JNEMY SHELLS •HILIPPINE PORTSSo far, it was announced, there /as no evidence that the invaders Hd managed to land any rein-rcements.In the Philippines, a bulletin rom Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s eadquarters said, Japanese war-ips were shelling ports on threelands in the archineiago and nding troops from four transports lt Zamboanga, on the southwest ip of Mindarao island, 600 miles outh of Manila.t Gen. MacArthur reported a con-inued lull in ground and air ae-ivity on Bataan peninsula, whereunerican and Filipino troops have|,4.A.’. .... .J r A. • .A/.V. . a « ■ '• * .* *----(NEA Telephoto)Gen. Douglas MacArthur (right) is greeted by President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine commonwealth in this US Army SignalCorps photo taken shortly before the Japs attacked.mal wartime complement is about 145 officers and men.Unconfirmed advices to Londonreported that a huge new Japanese invasion armada of 70 or 80ships was bearing down uponJava, under violent assault by relays of United States and Alliedbombers. f Possibly referring to this new danger, the Dutch command said United Nations bombers scored direct hits on two Japanese troop transports of 10,000 and 8,000 tons off the Java coast.REINFORCEMENTS NECESSARYDefense forces were further credited with wiping out ten Japanese navy “Sero” fighting planesand their crews in a machine-gunning attack against “an enemy-occupied airfield”—presumably on Java.In London, an official of the Netherlands government-in-exile painted a gloomy outlook of the struggle, declaring -Java “cannot hold out much longer” unless reinforcements arrived.“We have suffered terrible losses, and the chances of reinforcements are slight,” he said, adding that Japanese strategy was aimed at driving straight across middle Java to cut the island and its defense forces in two.The official said the Dutch Indies government had moved from Batavia, the capital, to the inland mountain city of Bandoeng.Authoritative quarters in the Indies had said yesterday that “the action is proceeding satisfactorily.”The three main Japanese spearheads, totalling 60,000 to 80,000 •troops, were reported stopped in their tracks. One column driving from beachheads on Indramajoe bay was said to be stalled 30 miles from Bandoeng; a second force had advanced 16 miles inland from Rembang to a region 85 miles west of the big Soerabaja naval base; and a third column in the Bantam district of westernmost Java, 60 miles from Batavia, evidently never penetrated far inland.JAPS CLAIM ADVANCEA Tokyo broadcast said the vanguard of Japanese forces which invaded Java at dawn already hadadvanced within sight of Bandoeng, Dutch military headquar-j ters city.Bandoeng is in western Java, about halfway across the 150-mile-wide island.While the picture of land fighting remained obscure, the gravity of the situation was outlined starkly by the Dutch acknowledgement that they had begun to apply a “scorched earth” policy of destruction to the capital city of Batavia itself. NEI officials said there was no immediate threat to the city but that demolition had been started “in order to take no risks.”Dispatches reaching London said Allied bombers were raining havoc on the new Japanese invasion fleet 50 to 60 miles north of Java and that United Nations warships also had gone into action.These dispatches said the invaders were expected to begin unloading fresh troops along Java’s 620-mile coastal beaches within afew hours.Imperial Tokyo headquarters,summarizing the results of lastweek-end’s flaming battles in the Java sea, asserted that 23 Allied warships had been sunk, including six cruisers, eight destroyers, seven submarines, a gunboat and a minesweeper.US CRUISER REPORTED SUNKThe 9,050-ton United States cruiser Houston was listed among the ships sent to the bottom.As for Japanese losses, Tokyo acknowledged only that a single minesweeper had been sunk and a destroyer slightly damaged.By contrast, the Dutch have announced the sinking or heavy damaging of 27 Japanese warships and transports in the Java sea fighting, with a loss of two Allied cruisers and two destroyers.On land, an NEI spokesman declared merely that “hard blowshave been inflicted on the enemy.”Dutch commanders were incharge, with British General Sir Archibald P. Wavell transferred from head of the United Nation'southwest Pacific command to his old post as India’s commander in chief to meet the grave threat of the Japanese penetration of Bur-Wage and Hour LawDiscussed at MeetProvisions of the wage and hour law and how it applies to the lumber industry were discussed at length last night by Robert T. Amis, Birmingham, regional wage and hour director, addressing a meeting at the1 Harrison countycourthouse in Gulfport.Lumbermen from various sections of the Coast attended. This was one of a series of educational meetings Mr. Amis has been conducting in Mississippi since mid-February.Bay St. Louis—MAY H. EDWARDSLEAVE FOR INDUCTIONThe following boys left this morning for Camp Shelby for induction: George J. Toca Jr., Roy Baxter Jr., Noah Travirca, Daniel Necaise, Angel Joseph Ladner, Monroe Rmalda Garcia, Troy Rut-lis Page and Leo Eliot Garcia.John Mollere of the Sea Coast Echo staff is back at his desk after a week’s illness.H. B. Weston left last night -for Greensboro, NC, on a business trip.The Civilian Defense council has scheduled the next mass meeting for March 16. The work of enrolling volunteer workers is well under way and will continue through Thursday.MRS. CUNNINGHAM DIESNews has been received here of the death at Washington, DC, of Mrs. Annie Cunningham. Mrs. Cunningham spent two years here recently and though a native of this section she lived a great partof her life abroad and came herein search of health. She was a cousin of Mrs. Paula Jenks of tins city.BRITISH KICKING OUT DRILL BOOKLondon, March 3— (TP) —The British army is tossing most of the time-honored drill book and manual of arms out of the window and devoting more time tn teaching soldiers'how to fight and kill, officials disclosed today. Under the orders of Sir James Grigg, Britain's new war secretary, recruits henceforth will betaught only essentials from the oldmanuals intended to instill discipline and quick response to orders—squad drill and rifle handling, for instance.Brit-thatBRITISH FOOD SITUATION BETTERLondon, March 3—(TP)—A ish spokesman, reporting Britain’s loss of food through ship sinkings had not been “really substantial,” asserted today that the nation’s essential food stocks at the end of 1941 were 30 per cent higher than at the end of 1940.the Japanese may soon attempt a landing on Australia, and drastic new measures to meet it include a labor draft. Thousands of men are liable for duty under the draft on army terms and at army pay.Lieut. Gov. Hubertus J. van Mook of the Netherlands East Indies was quoted in a London Daily Mail dispatch as bitterly criticizing the Allied command in the Pacific.“This,” he declared, “has been a war of lost chances”—among them the opportunity of the United States for striking Japan with even meager forces five weeks ago” when six unprotected lines of communication had been opened to the south.”US Armv and Naw leaders spoke of offensive efforts yesterday, but experts estimated “the business of carrying the war to the enemy” may yet be from six to 12 months away.Admiral Ernest J. King, commander in chief of the US Fleet, declared naval units “are carrying on with the basic idea to ‘do more than your best with what vou’vegot’.”With securing of sea communication lines, it was said, the Army could be swung into the world offensive on a major scale.In connection with General Wa-iveil’s reassignment, London quarters said dominion status probably would be offered India to supplant the government now vested in the crown, a concession intended toi encourage suppoit for the war ef-ma, which was herself an eastern ! fort from her 400,000,000 people.■Isection of India until almost five years ago.Japanese fliers loosed machine-gun and cannon fire at airdromes and grounded planes at Wyndham, on the Australian coast 300 miles southwest of Darwin, and bombed Broome. 400 miles farther southwest. The Royal Australian AirForce said there was some damage at both towns, but no casualties.Commonwealth leader* believeSmall forces of Japanese infantry seeking to cut the Rangoon-Mandalay lailway were trapped and annihilated yesterday by British motorized patrols charging across heat-cracked paddy fields, a dispatch from the, British linesnorth of Pegu said.Elephant convoys aided mot-or trucks in moving Japanese supplies up to the east bank of the Sittang river.lt;i
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