The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-07
japs Repeat Looting Methods in Philippine Island.
War

ndO again DOmOeO SOIIeklOOI
island, citadel at the base of the
Batan peninsula and in a posi-
ton to control Manila Bay. Cor
regidor, heavily fortified, is
carved out of almost solid rock.
There was no indication, the war
department said, as to the cas-
ualties on Corregidor, anti-air-
craft fire was said to have hit
several of the hostile planes
DUTCH HIT HARD
Report of the Dutch naval
striking force at Davao was con-
tanned in an earlier war depart
ment communique.
A Rome radio report heard in
London indicated that the thrust
may already have started, de-
claring that strong forces OF
Japanese parachute troops had
landed on the east coast OF
Dutch Borneo.
simultaneously, Dutch East
Indies headquarters at Batavia
reported that a formation of
eight japanese flying-boats at
tackled military detectives during
the night on the island of Ambon
(Ambonia), site of a major
Dutch naval base, 800 miles
south of Davao.
"The enemy opped 20
bombs and machine-gunned the
island" the communique said,
reporting that three civilians
we're killed and four persons
wounded.
The bulletin also noted lively
aerial reconnaissance over the
far-flung archipelago-often the
tipoff of an impending inva-
sion-with the announcement
that "enemy planes were OBJ
served over various parts of the
outer possessions"
EXTEND OPERATIONS
Tokyo Imperial headquarters
said japanese troops who landed
several days ago at Brunei in
British North Borneo, adjoining
Dutch Borneo, were extending
their field of operations" No
details were given.
In smashing at Amboina, the
japanese were seeking to knock
out one of the Indies bases from
which u. S. army bombers may
have been flying to attack Jap
anese warships in the Philip
pines.
For Japan, the Indies with
their treasure-trove of such vital
war supplies as rubber, tin and
oil would be one of the richest
prizes in the Far East.
A U. S. War department COM
munique disclosed that Japan
csc naval units massed in Davao
Bay included q battleship, five
cruisers, six destroyers, IL SUBJ
marines and IL transports-ob-
viously a greater force than
would be needed merely to sup
port new landing operations in
the Philippines.
600 MILES SOUTH
Davao, at the southern tip of
the Philippines, lies 900 miles
below the Manila fighting sector
where Gen. Douglas MacArth-
ur's heroic defenders were re-
ported still holding the Japanese
at bay on the approaches to Ba-
tan peninsula.
Washington military observ-
crs said Mondays assault by u.
S. Army bombers on japanese
warships at Davao probably sig
nailed the opening of a systema-
tic allied bombing campaign to
prevent japan from using Davao
as base for an attack on the
Indies.
Lieut.. Gov. H. j. Van Nook
disclosed that the Dutch have
long been preparing a "scorched
earth" plan to prevent the In
dies oil fields and industries
from falling into japanese
hands.
With a tiny bu' highly active
fighting force, the Indies Dutch
have already destroyed total of
two Japanese cruisers, two de-
stroyers, nine transports, two
merchant ships and Is planes in
the month-old Pacific conflict, it
was officially announced.
In addition, two japanese
cruisers, two destroyers, four
transports and nine planes have
been damaged.
Imperial Tokyo headquarters
whose acknowledgement Of
losses, incidentally, has been
meager-admitted today that an
other Japanese submarine has
been sunk in the Pacific and a
cruiser damaged in an attack by
Allied aircraft on Jan. 4.
KANSAS GIFTS SPORTS