The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-14
BY ROGER ID. GREENE
Ns,ociated Press War Editor

BY ROGER ID. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
Imperial Tokyo headquarters
asserted today that Japan'S in
vaSion armies had captured 40
600 prisoners, including Is gen
erals. since the beginning of the
Bataan offensive in the Philip
pines. while on the Burma front
British headquarters acknoWl-
edged a dangerous new japanese
thrust toward the central Burma
oil fields,
A British communique said
japanese troops driving up the
IrraWaddy River had captured
the village of Migyaungye which
is only % miles south Of the
Minbu oil fields.
The British also reported in
creaSing Japanese pressure be-
low Taungdw ingyi, 90 m lie S
northeast of Prone, about mid
way between the British defend
ed right flank and he Chinese
guarded left flank Of the main
Allied defense line.
OTHER MOVES
Other developments in the
Far Pacific theater:
Iran-With India imminently
threatened b. Japanese invasion,
Iran {Persia} broke off relations
$50 japan
Lying midway between India
and the North African battle
zone, Iran would be a likely
route for an attempted junction
of Japanese and German armies
AuStralia-United States and
Australia fIiers blasted anew at
Japanese invasion bases at Lac,
New c uinea, and Koepang,
Dutch Timor, attacking ships and
airdromcS. -Four japanese planes
were shot dov or damaged.
Philippines -- The japanese
said 500 Of 10000 prisoners
the yCaptured on Bataan Pen
insula were United States sol
dierS, as distinguished from ma
tive Filipino troops, and deClar-
ed that booty Included 1876 guns,
800 maChinc-gunS, 500 automatic
rifelS, 10000 rifles, l24 tanks
and armoreC cars, and 200 other
cars.
ASSAULT LOOMS
Dispatches from Lieut.. Gen.
Jonathan NJ Wainwright's head
quarters on Corregidor Island, in
Manila Bay, indicated that
Japanese attempt to storm the
rocky citadel by night was near.
I'm the last "a hours, Corregi-
doris guns were officially cred
tied with sinking a Japanese
ship off the Bataan coast and
smashing Japanese small inVas-
ion-type boats IN 81 at the
fishing villages of Mariveles.
Military observers said the
japanese would probably strike
on the first night that rain blacks
out the waters between Corregi-
dor and the mainland. The rainy
season starts i'm the next few
days.
Gen. Wainwright rportcd that
the island fortress was under al
most constant fire by Japanese
artillery on both the north and
south shores OF Manila Bay.
Information was lacking on
the fighting at Ccbu, in the cen
trail Philippines, $50 miles south
of Manila, where 10000 tank
supported Japanese troops land
cd Friday. The American and
Filipino defenders we're so bad
~ out-numbcrcd, however, that
they were given Ii.tlc chance 10
resist more than a few days.
On Mndanao Island, 500 miles
south of Manila, AmCriCan-Fil- !
ipinO patrols we're officially re-
ported to have raidCd and burn
cd eight Japanese food ware
houses on the western shore of
Davao Gulf. one of the feeding
points for the japanese thrusts /.
toward Australia
Communications between Cc- /
bu and Corrcgidor have been
rcCStabIishcd, the Department /.
said.
COrrCCidor was raidcd four
times carly today by flights of
heavy Japanese bombcrS, and
there were some casualties but
only slight damage Of military
installations
Both CorrCE Idor and Fort
Frank were ShCllCd bv enemy
batteries from both sides of
Manila Bay
Sharp SkIrmIShCS were re- .
ported I'm progress I'm the DipoS .