Evening star., 1941-12-14
The Score

What damage the japanese did at
Hawaii We still do not know in detail.
They sent planes estimated in number
BY observers at from so to $50 in six
attacks on the island of Oahu. which is
the chief island in the Hawaiian group
the Pacific fortress guarding continental
United States from Oriental menace. The
invaders, whose planes apparently were
brought to the Hawaiian vicinity on air
plane carriers. attacked Pearl Harbor,
the Hawaiian naval base; Hickam
Field, the Army air base, and the city of
Honolulu. Japan boasted that her men
had sunk three American battleships and
an aircraft carrier and damaged other
battleships and six cruisers. The White
House admitted that "one old battleship"
had been lost with a number of lesser
vessels. Secretary of the Navy Knox
was sent to Hawaii to bring back re-
port on exactly what happened. The
country wondered whether the Navy was
asleep in Hawaii. The White House put
the Hawaii casualties at 5000, 500 of
them dead. IT.
After the Hawaii attack, made known
Dy the Wnlte House Sunday at 2:25 pm,
Japan declared war. After
War the Hawaii attack, also, the
Beoins two japanese negotiators,
Ambassador Nomura and
Saburo Kurusu, went to the State De-
partment for a final talk They pre-
sented a document explaining Japan's
rejection of the American basis for peace
in the Orient. The note infuriated Sec
retary of State Hull who scolded his
visitors in downright Tennessee noun
tain language.
Before war was declared Japan at
tackled Hong Kong British and Guam,
Wake and Midway (American. Japan
bombed Singapore. Japan on Wednes-
day drove a fierce blow home against
the British, and the Americans, by sink
ing in an air raid with torpedoes the
British dreadnaught Prince of Wales, on
which Roosevelt and Churchill met last
August, and the British battle cruiser
Repulse. The ships went down off
Malaga, 100 miles north of Singapore, in
China Sea.
United States Army airmen sank the
japanese battleship Haruna in bomb
ing attack off the Philippines, and the
United States naval airmen crippled,
perhaps sunk, the japanese battleship
Kongo. Marines defending Wake Island
sank Japanese cruiser and japanese
destroyer, and japanese transport ap-
preaching the Philippines was sunk.
Japan on the opening day sank an
American Army cruiser carrying lumber,
1900 miles west of the California coast.
Japan captured the Kota Bahru air.
port in Malaga and sought toehold on
several portions of the island
luzon of Luzon, Philippines. Thai
Attack land surrendered to Japan
q. after days token fighting |
and then signed a treaty of belligerent |
alliance with Japan. Japan claimed |
Guam and Midway Islands, but the War
Department announced Friday that the |
American flag still waves over Midway |
and Wake and perhaps it waves over !
Guam China, with more than four !
years of experience in fighting against |
Japan, sent an army to the border of |
Japanese dominated Indo-China and |
moved other forces toward Burma to aid |
the defense of that British colony, which |
lies adjacent to Thailand on the west
BY the weeks end the world was we'll |
divided into two warning groups, with
few neutrals left.
The allies of the United States are
these: Great Britain, Australia, Belgium, |
Bolivia, Canada, China. Costa Rica, |
Cuba, Czecho- Slovakia, Dominican Re |
public, Ell Salvador, Free France, Greece, |
Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Neither
lands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, |
Poland, Union of South Africa, Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics.
The allies of Japan against the United
States are these: Germany, Italy, Slo-
vakia, Rumania, Bulgaria.
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