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Air Squadrons Smash
Japanese Invaders
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Cocrabaja naval base. They dropped
many bombs, the communique said,
but all fen into the sea.
Their aim was spoiled because
Dutch planes challenged them and
coon drove them off.
The communique, issued through
She Netherlands Indies News Agency,
said that no other raids on Java
we're reported.
The fleet which the Netherlands
planes attacked lay off Bangka
Island. opposite the Palembang area
of Sumatra.
Netherlands planes also made a
fierce and successful attack on the
Palembang invasion area. starting
several fires, the communique said.
Plane crews saw fires started in
oil installations 10 days ago by
Dutch demolition squads were still
burning.
All Dutch planes returned.
Jap Planes Hit Towns
However, Japanese fighter planes
machine gunned the settlements of
Waingapu, on Sumba Island, and
Bima, on Sumbawa Island. Both
Islands are east of Java. Slight dam
age was done at Bima; none at
Waingapu.
Despite the lull in Japanese raid
ing, attributable in part to the stout
opposition Of Dutch fighter planes,
determined Dutch army, backed
~ thousands of American, British
md Australian troops and centur-
ies-old tradition of intrepid fighting
against odds, awaited a direct Jap
tnese invasion attempt in the great
sst battle of the Pacific war.
Gen. Helm ter Poorten. commander
n chief Of the Netherlands East
indies forces, in broadcast last
night to Dutch, United Nations and
Netherlands Indies native troops,
welcomed American, British and
Australian troops who, he revealed,
>re now there in many thousands"
Words Of Dutch General
Fight like wild cats! Fight like
uelll" he urged the soldiers, drawn
from all over the world.
Welcoming the Americans, Britons
and Australians, he said:
II know your gallant record in
history for fighting. I know I can
rely on you Americans, Australians
and Britons to fight equally gallant
y now alongside our Dutch.
THE situation is serious. There
is no reason for light hearted OPP
tinism. But certainly there is none
for pessimism.
1.-THE enemy, at the end of long
lines Of communication, is desper-
ately seeking food and oil. Nowhere
has the Japanese new order sue
ceeded In getting the products it SO
badly needs. Everywhere the. jap
anese go hungry amid smoking
ruins"
Cen. Ter Poorten spoke In English
as well as Dutch and his speech was
Immediately translated into Neither
lands Indies native tongues and re-
broadcast.
Gen. Ter Poorten promulgated an
order that all establishments which
sell food stuffs, either raw or in
prepared form, must remain open
even In event Of hostilities or urgent
threat of hostilities, except during
actual air raid alarms. Restaurants
and native eating houses are in
cluded. Even during air raids en-,
ployes Of establishments affected
must remain at their posts.
The decree, announced through
the Netherlands Indies news agency,
said that stocks of vio1ators would
be confiscated and sold or given to
the people.
Java Bases Hit
Japanese air raids, ever INTENSITY
ing, centered on Java air bases, es-
lpecially at the Batavia (west) end
Of the island, on the Batavia har-
Dor area, on the Soerabaja naval
base at the eastern end of the island,
and key detectives, principally air
bases, throughout the island. Japa-
neSe planes formations also circled
the island in order to attack ships.
Authoritative sources asserted that
Japanese air raids on the Australian
defense area, especially Port Darwin
and submarine attacks on the
Netherlands West Indies as well as
the California coast were part of a
plan to frighten Australia and the
United States into stopping the flow
Of rienforcements to the NEI.
The influential Soerabaja news
paper Handelsblad, quoted by the
Netherlands Indies news agency,
said today that the Japanese IL 21a