Evening star., 1941-12-10
Toxic Loudspeakers
Inform laps Of
Warship Sinkings
Report Preparedness
To Toke Over Control
OF Three Oceans
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Dec. 10 (official radio
pickup ).-Loudspeakers today shout
ed Japan's most tremendous news of
war successes so far-the sinking OF
two of Britain's mightiest capital
ships and the landing Of japanese
forces in the Philippine Islands-to
jubilant throngs OF war-stirred Jap
aneSe.
Announcing that Britains new 35,-
0O0-ton battleship Prince Of Wales
and battle cruiser Repulse had gone
down in the Pacific of Malaga under
bursts of japanese air. bombs, i'm
perial headquarters declared the
British Far Eastern feet has been
obliterated."
(The loss of the two ships was
acknowledged by Britain. but
there was no indication of other
losses to substantiate the Jap
anese claim that Britain's newly
massed naval strength in the Far
East had been nullified)
Japan already had claimed naval
supremacy of the Pacific after her
Sunday air smash against the United
States fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,
and imperial headquarters today pro-
claimed Japan prepared to seize con-
troll of both the air and water OF the
Pacific, Indian and Antarctic Oceans.
Troop Landings Reported.
In a virtual broadside of commun-
iuues which kept crowds gathered in
front OF radios and newspaper bull
letin boards. the Army and Navy
sections of the Imperial headquar-
ters:
Said japanese landing parties had
been set ashore successfully IN the
| Philippines north Of Manila in JONI
land-sea air operations against Phil
ippine resistance,
| Declared that previously-repo
occupation of the United States Pa
cific island Of Guam had been con,
firmed and that japanese military
and naval forces now were securel,
esta blished there.
japanese naval units were re.
ported officially also to have ap.
preached the mouth of Hong Kons
Bay and sunk an 820-ton British
naval tug. The announcement in.
dicated that the vessel was dolni
patrol duty.
Berlin news and radio an
nouncements quoted Japanese
naval authorities as saying they
had reason to believe that the
British battleship King George V.
new 35,0O0-ton sistership of the
Prince of Wales. also had been
sunk in the air-sea battle.
There was no confirmation of
this from any other quarter. how
ever, nor even any intimation
that she is in that part Of the
world
Against all these successes, tn
communicates said Japan had los
not one warship.
They acknowledged only that tw
transports had gone down and tw
others were damaged. with no 10,
of life on any of them, and that
planes were missing, 13 Army plan,
and So naval.
A terse announcement said the r,
pulse sank instantly and that Il
Prince of Wales, crippled and
flight from a first air assault. ",
destroyed in a second aerial attac
Hirohito Congratulates Admiral.
Wild excitement greeted the broac
cast, cut into all Japanese network
and Emperor Hirohito dispatched
message of congratulations to Ao
miral Isoroku Yamamoto. com
mander in chief of the combine
. fleets.
Capt. Hideo Hiraide, spokesman {
the naval press section. urge
restraint. however. He told a ma
tional rally that Japan had smashe
the main British and United State
naval forces in the Pacific. but mu,
be prepared to carry on the war fc
a decade.
Contrary to British and America
expectations, he declared, the qua
itative strength of the Japanese fe.
had risen tremendously since tn
: 1922 Washington Conference, wher
I he said. Britain and the Unite
I States forced on Japan an inferic
1 t5-5-3 naval ratio in hopes of pre-
: venting Japanese naval victory.
But the smash on Pearl Harbo
E he declared. has reversed the rati
= and the Japanese Navy will cor
S tlnue to let actions speak in provin
3 to the world the superiority of tn
Japanese Navy"
t The Privy Council met in a 1:
S minute plenary session with III
. Emperor, Prime Minister Gen. Hide]
j TOTO and other cabinet member
= present. "a radio report heard b
i c. B. S. in New York said an i'm
i portant foreign policy decision hs
= been discussed In Toxic and mist
|. be announced today
Heavy Fighting Continues
A Domei dispatch from Saigo
said heavy fighting We c--'1'-,rir
between Japanese and British fore,
near Kota Bharu IN norvne.n
laya.
Official japanese quarters. in d,
: nying what they called Unite
IL States claims of the sir,-ing # =
n japanese aircraft carrier of H.
e wali," suggested that United o,av
S observers might have seen a Unite
IS States vessel believed to be tt