The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
War
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troops were opposing 100000
Japanese in LuZon.
An official Tokyo broadcast
asserted that Allied warships
had entered the critical battle
of Singapore even as Japan's
navy minister, Vice Admiral
Shigetaro Shimada, boosted that
the Japanese navy virtually
commands the Pacific from Ma
laya and the Indies to the west
coast of the United States"
On the same exulant note,
Premier Gen. Hideki TOTO as
serted that Japan planned in
creasingly vigorous operations"
in the Pacific and would con-
tinue fighting until the United
States and Britain were brought
TO their knees"
Japanese front-line dispatches
said battle flags of the Rising
Sun were advancing southwark
along the Malayan west coast lin
spite of gunfire from enemy
ships in the Strait of Malacca,
which lies between the Malay
Peninsula and the Dutch East
Indies island of Sumatra.
PRESS FORWARD
British military quarters con-
coded that Japanese troops-ap-
parently arriving in small boats
which Rugged the shore-con-
tinued to land along the Malay
coast during the past "a hours,
striking ahead of the main jap
anese invasion army to haraSs
the British west flank.
Strong japanese pressure also
was reported against a British
communications highway run
ming southeast from the Muar
River sector, 80 miles north of
Singapore, where British, Aus
tralian and Imperial n d a n
troops were struggling to halt
the main Japanese onslaught.
1t was in this sector that
Tokyo asserted 10000 British
were trapped.
A Tokyo broadcast said Japa-
nese forces yesterday captured
Segamat, 95 miles north of Sing
apore, after seven-day attacl.
against positions defended by
the Australian 9th Division and
fortified to a depth of 35 miles.
DEVELOPMENTS
Other fast-breaking develop
ments included:
l. Dutch East Indies - The
Dutch high command quoted
reliable reports" that Japanese
troops had occupied the entire
Minahassa Peninsula, northeast
arm of Celebes Island, but paid
dearly for this conquest"
2. Australia - Nearly 1900
miles east of Celebes, Japanese
warplanes attacked the key ports
Of Eastern (British) New Guinea
and the nearby Bismarck Archi-
pelago. Forty Japanese bombers
and 20 fighting planes raided
Kavieng, at the north cape tip of
British New Ireland, and attack
ed the New Guinea cities of Ma
dang, Salamaua, Bulolo and Lac.
Australia's Prime Minister John
Curtin said the mass attac )
showed the peril to Australia
was nearer, clearer and deadli-
err than ever"
3. Singaporc--Japanese bomb
ers again struck heavily at Bril-
tain's S400,000,OOO island fort
ress today but paid a high toll.
Twelve of the raiders were Off
cially reported shot down amid
prolonged attacks on residential
districts. On the basis of 10 per
cent as heavy loss, this would
indicate that at least 100 Japa-
neSe planes were used in the as
Sault.
4. Burma Imperial Tokyo
headquarters asserted that Japa-
nese forces now striking into
British Burma, China's backdoor
for war supplies, "annihilated"
defense troops in an attack near
Commeander, l6-miles northeast
OF Japanese occupied Tavoy, in
Southern Burma.
DRIVE CHECKED
British headquarters at RAN
COON, the Burmese capital. de-
clared that Thai-Japanese forces
which struck from the Thailand
border yesterday toward the inn
portant port of Moulmein in
Sou hern Burma had been
checked near the frontier town
of Myawaddi.
AT home, Americans warmed
to thrilling new exploit by the
U. ). Navy in which Lieut.. John
ID. Bulkelcy, 30, of Long Island
City, New York, rocketed an "a
mile an hour torpcdoboat into
Binanga Bay in the Philippines,
and sank 5,000-ton Japanese
ship under heavy fire.
Lieut.. Bulkeley's daring feat,