The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1942-04-03
CHRONICLES OF WAR
HIGHLIGHTS TO DATE

The AIMED position IN Rurma xrew worse and sks slsua.
sssr Toassoe. he Jspsssss sS hurled new forrss into sks fare
u = Chinese eounteratiack- ReinfoseeHsnss also arrived Tor
the Chinese.
In India Il vas evident that the British offer Of fun
dominion status n The close Of the war would be reiecied.
The leaders vosced unviIingness TO leave the eoantry's DE-
status IN spite Of aek Of military leadership ameng the
Indians
defenseS IN Manila hay had been under intermittent lombard
meat BY enemy bomhers and batteries. but had thus far sui
smashed an snams launch. Aground on Rattan peninsula
Only sharp patral artisn vas reported. Enemy bomheEs al.
tackled = plainly marked American base hospital On Basaan
On the Australian front. new Allied bombing attacks On
Iapanese beaehheads or New Guinea and Timor Islands AZ
Lac, Japanese hangers were set afiame. AZ kcepang on
Timor a many Is six enemy planes were believed destroyed
ea the ground.
The British admiralty states that an German attacks on
the Allied convoy-whirh was carrying Amerfcan-made war
materials and was assaulted fer three days--wer beaten
off BY Russian and British forces" and added that one Ger
Submarines knocked cut. The British cruiser Trinidad and the
destroyer Eclipse were damaged but reached . Russian har-
Der under their own power.
The Germans were reported to be moving 100 fresh
German divisions Of about i.500 900 men into Russia for a
new thrust as the oil Of the Caucasus. The Russians were
reported TO have taken an important point In the Leningrad
WEDNESDAY. APRIL
The Axis were baked on an fronts with the exception
Of Burma. There the enemy held complete control OF the air
over the Allied right manned by the British. Afieid the Allied
position had been slightly improved. Invaders pressure On
Prone grew hourly. Large enemy forces strongly held Shwe-
daung 10 miles below this point. All Chinese forces were re-
united after 5000 to 10000 troops crossed the Siitang River
under terrific enemy fire.
The British efforts to obtain the cooperation and support
81 India In the war appeared 10 have failed and little hope
Of reaching an agreement was held.
u. 8. Naval officials reported that u. s. Forces have
destroyed Is Axis Submarines in the Atlsatie and Pacific.
Three were sun In one day. Donald Mason. naval enlisted
pilot Who recently sighted sub. sank same" was credited
with having bagged another submarine In the Atlantic. He
was awarded a second Distinguished Flying Cross and given
. commission Of ensign. The Navy indicated that there had
been other sinkings but would not reveal them uhtl 4 later
date.
Meanwhile, ship sinkings by Axis subs continued off
the Atlantic Coast The navy announced the torpedoing of
. medium-sized Panamanian merchant vessel.
1t. C0mdr. William A. Lent, captain Of an American
submarine, reported the singing of a large japanese fTeighter
laden with munitions. He said the ship blew up with > sound
like 900 Fourth Of JuIys all happening at once The sub
marine recently returned from an expedition into Japanese
waters and he said that 1--WE chalked up some nice hits
Including the attack on the Nipponese supply vessel which
apparently was enFoute 10 3 Japanese base In the southwest
Pacific.
American resistance rose in the Philippines. Successive
war department communiques told Of the defeat Of a major
enemy attack on GenraI Wainwrights main line on Bataan
peninsula and reported two audaeious and highly successful
American Filipino raids On the island Of Andanao far 10
the south. There one body of troops struck = Japanese sup
ply base near Digos and burned q enemy military ware
houses TO the ground while native Sulus thrust 10 the very
center Of the Japanese occupied city Of Zamboanga, destroy
ing machine gun nests and other enemy positions. killing
many Japanse and Withdrawing without losses to themselves.