The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-11
1000 SURVIVORS
 IN SEA DISASTER
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 Survivors said that Rspuise's crew scrambled ogl the decks when ordered to abandon ship and Slid down the side Co drop into the seq. They were picked iip py destrcy- CTS from lie rafta and brought to Singapore,
 Cecil Brown, correspondent for Columbia Broadcegting SysteTEl, was among those roscued from Repuise. Capt. William c. Tennant, cofns manding oflcer Of the Eepulse, was rescued.
 The commanIqae reported that British .defenSes il1 northern Ma. lave are holding firmly against Japanese attacks and that "there appears to be no change in the enc eEny's plans"
 British headquarters, reporting on Japanese operations against the Philippines, said that lt appeared that the Japanese have divided their main etfort between Manila, subjected @ repeated air attacks, and northern Ltison where troop landings have been made.
 The situation isl northern Mas laya, sad the ccsnmunique, "ge- mains the same!"
 1t was admitted that heavy scale JapaneSe afr attacks on northern Malaya Airdfonas has rendered some Of them temporarily tinseFvs iceabie."
 No further Japanese efforts Co land in the Kuantan afea, north Of Singapore were reported and no enemy ships were sighted in that region by air recornalssance.
 The coininunique again reported that 2,OO0 survivors of the Sunken Prince of Wales and Repuise have reached Singapore and that seven Japanese planes were dOwned in the attack.
 WAR BULLETINS
 Batavia, Dec. ii - (U.PJ = The report that Australian bosnb0rs have attacked c Japanese aiF baae on the Island of Pobra, between tho Celebes and the Japanese island cs Paiau.
 PObrs is southeast of the Phiiip. pines.
 Tihe Australian bombers were based on the Netherlands East ms dies Island of Ainbon, the AiiOta 10. port revealed.
 one Australian plane failed to return from the attack,
 No hostilities have occurred in ti1A Dutch East Indies, an army coEns inunique said.
 Vichy, Dec. il - (U.P.) = Ger. man authorities at Bfest. occupied France, have executed ll TTOnchs men for illegal possesslon Of arms. The executions bring to c total of 1899 the number Of persons executed In occupied France ifl Feprisal for anti. German activities.
 They were the first by the Ger mans since two persons faced c firing squad at Nancy November 27 for ilelgal possession Of arms.
 London, Dec. ii = (UP.) -- Dess tt1iction of the entire German and Italian arnicred forces in Eastern Libya appears now to be c prob. ability an cnicial spokesman said today.
 On November is, General Auchs inleck set out to destroy the entire armed forces of the Germans and Italians ill Oyrenaica," he said, "Now, on December ii, ! am bound to say it seems very probable he will do so."
 Berlin, Dec. il = CuP) = Radio Berlin Recorded by United PresS ct New York - Adolf Hitler today placed German casualties up to De- cember l at 673,4i6 killed, wounded and missing.
 He listed casualties as:
 Killed 162214: wounded 3TT,7e7; missing 33,334.
 London, Dec. il = CU.P.) - Rus sia's war co1nmunique claimed to- day that more than 1000 German soldiers and ofacers were killed in Soviet drive from several locali- ties" toward the etaiinogorsk area south of Moscow. Russian troops were said to have fought the enemy ton all fronts"
 Singapore, Dec. l1 = gU.PJ - A British conmunique reported today that Japanese mobile air and sea forces still appear to be engaged in raidlng operations over wide areas of the Pacific.