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Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
JAPS REJOICE TOO SOON

U.ong Beach PreSs-Telegram
According to Japanese newspaper
America "Suffered Il terrible spiritual
blow" when a japanese submarine she'll
ed California oil refinery. From sim
ilar source comes the comment that the
EllWood "victory causes the occupation
by Japan Of the United States mainland
TO rest no longer in the realm of
dreams
If this little incident can give Tokyo
such Joy. how great the fall when the
facts are known.
Beginning with Pearl Harbor, Japan
has made oLe grave mistake after anoth-
er in judging American morale; for these
mistakes have done NOR u unite the
people of the United States for national
defense, and especially to pay their res
poets to Japan, than anything else that
could have been devised.
Editors Note: As 4 matter Of fact
the Jap submarine gunnerS mentioned
above proved leyond any doubt that the
laps are notoriouSly poor shooters.
There were 25 shells fired, about half of
them landed some place on North Ameri-
can soil, all but one Of the remaining
half struck the Pacific ocean, and one.
alone. found lis target. and damaged a
we'll rigging To the tuH' of $500. 1t
seems to take mighty little to give Tokyo
hone J
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09

ed lightning in Poland and France
lost their glamor when the Red
army went to work en- them.
He led the German army groups
which broke through at Sedan and
swept all the way to tie French
channel ports. His campaign in
South Russia is regarded here as
the most successful of the German
efforts in the east. BY a series OF
classic developments on a grand
scule he almost wiped out the
southern army of Marshal SimC4l
Budenny and surged all the way
to Rostov until the Russian win
ter offensive started driving him
back.
The best of the Russians is
thought here TO be 47-year-old
Tmoshenko who is credited with
embarking the Red army upon the
training in technique which en-
abled it to withstand the terrific
German drive. He applied the les
sons of Russia's winter war" with
Finland to reorganiZe radically
many Soviet military tactics.
TimoShenkO commanded the Rus
sian central front, cushioning the
heaviest Nazi blows and fighting a
series of terrific battles which SO
drained German strength that
their drive for Moscow failed. When
Budenny's forces nearly collapsed
in the south Timoshenko took over
that front scraped together re-
serves and launched a counter-drive
which recaptured RoStoV and re-
gained Soviet foOthold in the
eastern Crimea.
ZhukOv came into prominence at
| the crisis of the battle for Moscow
! He took over the Moscow command
when TimoShenko went south and
managed to beat back the Germans
| in the desperate battles of october
| and November when the NaziS had
had the Soviet capital half encirc-
! led His fortificationS helped save
the city. He has directed the SoV-
let counter offensive during the
winter on the central front
WaVell is the British commander
who has directed more fighting
than any other imperial officer He
was the first British commander
to laLlch a successful offensive OPP
eration directing the Libyan often
sive of a year ago in which 10000
imperiU troops 'k1Ccked out an
Italian army of 200 900.
He is not blamed for the fact
that Rommel speedily recaptured
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
BY NJ. s. HANDLER

MOSCOW, March 8. oUP)-Rus-
sian forces have almost completely
destroyed" GermanY's 48th infantry
division in a bloody, two-day battle
for Sychevka, strategic rail city mid
way between RzheV and Vyazma,
dispatches from the front said to-
day.
Sychevka is 40 miles south of
Rzhev on the railroad connecting
that city With Vyazma, and its cap
ture created a new Soviet threat
against the German garrisons in
both of the larger cities.
The destroyed 48th division, the
dispatches said, consisted mostly of
Poles. who deserted to the Russians
in large number when the fighting
began.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
Russians DestroV
German Division

The Red army troops fought their
way into Sychevka on the first day
of the battle, but the Germans start
ed counterattacks, using troops
brought up from the rear The Rus
slams held the town completely by
the third day. when 1000 dead Ger
mans were on the battlefield.
london observers. commenting
on recurring Russian assertions that
German reserves were being brought
from the rear, said there we're un-
confirmed reports that the Red
army had fully equipped 367 new
divisions of about 100000 men to
meet Adolf Hitler's spring offens-
i've" 1t was reported from Stocl-
holm last week that Hitler had pre-
pared an equal number for spring }
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
SPORTS IN SCHOOL
AND MEN AT WAR

1t seems bit contradictory that 10:
of California schools are abandoning in
terscholastic sports for the duration OF
the war at time when reports coming
back from the battlefields tell how the
things young America has learned on the
fields of sport are making our boys twice
as good, man for man, as their enemies.
The courage the stamina, the team
work and the never-say-die spirit lmbued
by interscholastic sports have showed up
time and again as deciding factors in
both aerial and ground combat in the
war. Boys who have played football and
baseball and all the other interscholastic
sports, in high schools and colleges. are
proving the best warriers America has.
We can understand why schools in
zones most likely to Le attacked should
curtail their programs, but we cannot
understand why others should do away
with them They are doing away with
the very sort Of thing which is basic train
ing Of the most basic sort.
This is no time to 90 soft, in the schools
nor anywhere else. This is q time for
Spartan courage-and that means every
body.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE

LONDON, March 9-eUPl-Mili-
tary observers today nominated a
war time list of 10 beSt"-the 10
best generals produced in 30 months
of conflict throughout the world
The list was notable for its sing
ling out of military leaders who
have improvised and adapted their
technique of fighting to a conflict
in which machines rather than men
have been dominant.
The 10 best included one AmeM-
Can-Gen Douglas Macarthur -
whose three months stand in the
Philippines while all the other bas-
tiOnS of the united nations in the
southwest Pacific have been falling
TO the Japan sc was regarded as
the most notable single exploit of
leadership since Japan started hos
tilitieS Dec. T.
GERMANS INCLUDED
Two German generals. two Rus
slams, one British one Chinese, one
japanese, Cne Dutch and one JugO
slaV commander completed the list
They were
MISUNDERSTANDING
German: Marshal Erwin Rommel
commander of the Afrika KorpS;
Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd
Won RuStedt, commander of the
South German armies in Russia
Russian: Marshal SemyOn Timo-
shenko, now on the southern frCnt
Gen. Grigori Zhukov. commander
of the Moscow front.
British: Gen. Sir Archibald
| Wavell.
Chinese: Gen. Chang Kai-Shek
Japanese: Lieut. Gen. TOmoyuk
YamaShita commander of the Ma
layan campaign.
Dutch: GCn. Helm ter PoOrten
Dutch commander in the East In
dies
JugoslaV: Gen Draia Mikahilovic
leader Of Serb forces still fighting
in the mountains Of JugoslaVia.
The admira m OF British mill
AIRY experts for MacArthur'S stand
is frank. They say he must b.
fighting Elankety-blank' Two
achievements by Macarthur put him
in the cirO: o. the top 10. The
first was his success in rcconcen-
u'tting hi I'li'.T 2ine defense
| forces evading japanese pincers
3riVe and assembling his troops with
only SLIGHT losses on Bataan pen
.lGula.
The second has been his highly
aggressive stand on Bataan in which
| he has dlScarulu a.atic defense tao
tics to carry on a highly original
and effective battle against Japa-
nese forces which probably out
number him 10 to /.
ROMMEL NEXT
Next to him, perhaps, stands Rom
mel, whom even Prime Minister
Winston Churchill once praise
"acrCSS the havoc of war" British
| opinion ranks ROmmel as the TOP
individual NaZi fighting man He is
frankly admired here for the skill
with which he has deployed his
tank forces in the African desert
and the manner in which - often
with numerically smaller numbers
he has stood off British attacks
British military men do not con-
ceal their wish that they had as
good a general on their side in AT
rlCa
Won Rundstedt is degraded here
as Cne of the few German gen
erals who has come through the
gruelling Russian campaign with
untarnished reputation Many Naz
commanders who moved like greas-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
Dutch Governor
Safe in Australia

CANBERRA, Australia. March 8
-CUP)-Lieut. Gov Hubertus van
Nook, of the Netherlands East In
dies government, arrived at Ade-
laide on the south coast today
with Two Dutch generals and mem
bers of the Indies government to
organize continued Dutch resist
ance to the japanese.
1t was understood that van Nook
at once informed the Australian
government that there was no truth
in japanese claims that Dutch re-
siStance in the Netherlands Indies
had collapsed.
Among those who accompanied
van Nook were Generals Van der
PlaS and Van der Ouyen
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
Nv BYRON TANES

NrFI BOURNE, Australia, March
O T-P1 Australian war planes
onrned a heavy attack today on a
lapancsc invasion fleet which had
landed enemy troops at two k'Y
nein,s in New Guinea, in a GRIM
warrpa that tins sparsely settled
COMMENT mar come under direct
assault at any time.
prime Minister John Curtin pre-
sia,5 at an emergency meeting u.
.t,, wv, y, ,,.a,. rabjnet to consider the new
Japanese invasion threat.
japanese troops landed yeSter-
day under the guns OF tormidaole
fleet m and umbrellas of bombing
diye bombing and fighting planes
y. S3l3maua and Lac on the north
coast ot Australian New Guinea.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
King Of Sweden
Under Operation

NEW YORK, March CUP -
King Gustav V of Sweden "a. was
orcrated on in Stockholm today
and a large kidney stone removed.
The Swedish New s
Agency announced in New York
that Prof John G.. L. Hellstroem
performed the operation in the Red
cross hospital and that the kings
condition. was satisfactory.
Gustav. tall, thin and gray haired
Las been Sweden's king since 1907
His rigorous training in the Army
l.cpt him in excellent health for
yrars and he played tennis with
men so years his junior until re-
Gently.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 2OI37
SU M M ONS
DELFINO MATUS, Plaintiff,


SUM M Nj MONS
DELFINO MATUS, Plaintiff,
VS..
ADALENA MATUS, Defendant.
RUSSELL YEAGER. Attorney fot
Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA SEND GREETINGS
TO ADALENA MATUS, Defendant.
You Are Hereby Directed to Ap-
pear and answer the Complaint IN
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court OF
the County of Imperial, State OF
California. within ten days after
the service on you of this Summons
if served within this county; or
within thirty days If served else
where.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded IL the COM
plant. as arising upon contract, or
he will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 18th day of November,
194l.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk
BY M. A. CHRISTIAN,
Deputy Clerk.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
Britain Replaces Burma Commander
With Admission Ranqoon Fall Near

resistance in Java had ended, au-
thoritatiVe Netherlands government
sources said:
There will be no surrender in
Java in any circumstances what
ever
we have decided to defend Java
to the death of the last man, the
Dutch official army spokesman
here said II do not believe We
will surrender regardless of what
happens
Similarly, the British military
commentator said.
The fighting in Burma has been
and Will be very hard
FAILURE EXPLAINED
The British commentator refused
to disclose the sector in which the
main British forces had been dis
posed but said that so far as was
known the center of fighting was
still around Pegu. so miles above
Rangoon, and admitted that sue
cessful enemy infiltratiOn there
would threaten the mann Rangoon-
Prone road
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
Macarthur Ranked Among
Wars 10 Best Generals

Libya when Wavell was forced to
divert his strength to Greece for
the unsuccessful Balkan campaign
of last spring. Nor is he blamed
for the unsuccessful stand in the
southwest Pacific where he served
as chief of the united nations COM
mand. Given sufficient guns, men.
tanks and planes, he is expected
to add luster to his reputation in
India.
CHANG RECOGNIZED
There is increasing admiration
here for Chang The demonstra-
ton Japan has given of her strik-
ing power in the southwest Pacific
has belatedly brought recognition
of his abilities in keeping Chinese
forces in the field against Japan
after five lCng years of warfare.
Yamashita commanded the jap
anese forces which Grove the Brit
ish from Malaga and captured Sing
apore. The british grudgingly ad-
init that the japanese operation was
we'll cOncei'~eG and efficiently exc
cuted The 57-year- Japanese
commander was a close student of
German military tactics and spent
some years IN Germany.
Ter Poorten is regarded here as
having waged a remarkable delay
ing action against the Japanese
attack on the Dutch Indies. With
limited manpower. severe shortage
of planes and relatively small guam
titles of modern military equipment
he has made the Japanese pay
dearly fer each advance. His ruth
less application of the Dutch
scorched earth policy is believed to
have cost the japanese even more
dearly than her losses in battle.
| IECAI ADVERTISEMENT
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
WHAT IS APPROPRIATE?

Biggest loophole III censorship Is
perhaps the provision that any in
formation coming from govern
mental appropriate authority IS
okay. What this bOils down to IS
the fact that there is voluntary
censorship on the part of the gov
ment. too. Office of Censorship has
no control over what other depart
ments of the government give out
for publication or broadCasti'/
These other departments can call
lr Censorship and ask for advice,
but that's as far as it goes Con-
sequently, when an appropriate au-
thority" issues news, all the Office
Of Censorship can do IS give clean
bill of health to anyone who uses
this information even if It contains
military secrets
There is no list Of "apprOpri-
ate authorities" An Army corps
commander, the head of any
government department is an
appropriate authority. Any skunk
wanting to beat censorship
could probably save his own
skin by pulling some appropri-
ate authority out from under
haystack or old board and get
ting this ap. auth. to stand for
having few quotation marks
hung on him.
If this happens, if the fringe OF
from i TO Q per cent Of writer's,
editors, publishers, announcers and
broadcasters proves 50 irrcconcil-
able to self-imposed discipline that
voluntary censorship breaks down,
there is only one alternative To
slap on an iron clad censorship
that will make the shacklcs i'm
poscd on free speech in Germany
look like tissue paper garlands.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
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MORE FIRMLY IN PLACE

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Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09

of the island would brins the cnemE
within 100 miles Q: Australia, across
the island-dotted Torres strait.
The small Australian home defensa
corps withdrew before the invasion
troops to the hills of the interiC.,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
Australian Airmen Meet
jan New Guinea Invasion

after effecting a thorough scorched
earth demolition of all military and
supply installations, government
c9mmuniques said
AS soon as the news of the inVa-
sion had reached the government,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
TROOPS LAND

At dawn yesterday, large enemy
fleet steamed into the gulf of Huon
and while warships shelled Sala-
maua and Lac, the Japanese launch
ed invasion craft on which landing
parties were taken ashore.
japanese planes bombed both
towns mercilessly to cover the land
ing, in cooperation with the bomb
arding warships.
Australian defense forces had re-
ceived detailed orders on their
course They had prepared fully for
demolition, and before the Japa-
nese got ashore, key installations
had been dynamited or burned and
the defenders were out of the towns
and in the open country where they
might hope to continue resistance.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The fOIIoutag edit
oriqis are presented as interesting opin-
ions uoiced by editors elSerhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

There must be an end to the individual
sniping and partisan politicaI attempts
to divide the cOuntry.-Rep. John ". Nc
Cormack, House Of Representatives ma
ioritN leader.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

WASHINGTON. March Slows S
censorship dom?
Press and radio censorship codes
have operated about TWO months
now. and with that much expert
srce reeled off. II, possible to make
~ appraisal
When The President announced
creation Of the Office of Censor
ship. the first words of his state
ment were. All Americans abhor
censorship" Byron Price named di-
rector Of censorship, has gone on
frlm there. He admits that censor
ship Of any kind is all wrong in
principle. that il is contrary to ev-
erythlng that the American people
have been taught that ii is a nuSi-
arce II is. however, a wartime nee
esslty. so the Job is to make the
bsSt of II
The censorship established IS
called voluntary. The general
principle is that information
cannot be printed or broadcast
which will give aid or comfort
TO the enemy. 1t is then up TO
the newspapers and radio sta
tiOns to observe that principle.
When in doubt, ask the censor
The experience thus far seems to
be that 80 8 or 999 per cent OF the
press and tie radio ae not only
willing but eager to abide by this
voluntary rule IN fact, they lean
over backward to observe it, often
voluntarily suppreSslng lnforma-
ton to which the censors, if asked
might give approval That's all to
the good. for il : better to be safe
than sorry.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
MAR AUSTRALIA

Al those points tney were 40
miles away from the Australian
continent. But admittedly the Aus
tralian forces in ali New Guinea
were of limited strength. ConqueSf
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09

We have suffered reverses, bat we are
beginning to achieve victor $ Manuel
Ouezon. President Of the Philippines.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09

They were so prompt they appar-
emily cought the Japanese by sur
prise. They dived down on warships
and transports, through a rain OF
anti-aircraft shells, to bomb and
machine gun. BY the time japanese
fighter planes arrived to challenge
them it was too late. All Australian
planes returned safely to base.
Early reports to the air ministry
indicated that the Aussie airmen
had scored direct hits on enemy
ships but visibility was poor and
pilots reports were delayed.
In a prelude to their invasion OF
New Guinea, japanese planes bomb
ed Bululo, the north coast island
mining center, by daylight Satur-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09

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Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
Enemy Sends Best
General to Bataan
Against NJ Arthur

WASHINGTON. March 9-tUPl
-Japan's most famous general OF
this war has been sent 70 the Phll-
ipplnes for the evident purpose OF
leading a new attempt to knock out
Gen. Douglas Macarthur Amerl-
can and Filipino forces.
The war department announced
TODAY that Gen. Tomokukl Yama-
shita the conqueror Of Singapore,
has succeeded Gen Masaharu HON.
ma. who Is reported to have COM
mitted suicide because of his failure
to defeat Macarthur. "A Japanese
broadcast denied the report
Gen. Yamashita has arrived at
headquarters north of the Bataali
battlefront to take over the task in
which Homma failed despite the
vast numerical superiority of his
forces
Announcement Of the shifting of
Yamashita to the Philippines was
regarded as further corroborative
evidence ii support of what Mac
Arthur on Sunday described as
persistent" reports that Homma
had ended his life in the tradition
of hara-kiri.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
JAPANESE CAUGHT

Australian planes raced out to the
attack
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
WOULD SLIT THROAT

There have been mistakes, There
viii probably continue to be mis-
takes Some information has Slip
ped into general circulation which
should have been censored Wfor
these slips have been called to the
attention o. tae editors and broao-
casters, they have promised not to
repeat. AS ore editor put it, he had
installed an automatic throat-cut-
ting machine IN his office, for use
If he was ever guilty of the offense
again.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-09
NEW BLOWS DUE

NeIt BLOW DUE
Military observers believed that
with the hard-hitting Yamashita
in command Of the 100000 CT more
invading troC-- a new offensive
against MacArthur's forces was an
ticipated
Some quarters believed that the
new commander-in -in-chief in the
Philippines might be bringing with
him reinforcementS which had been
used at Singapore or the Indies
Macarthur still sought proof Of
the persistent reports cf the sui
eide of Homma, 54-year-old "eX-
pert" on the ways OF the western
world who is reported to have taken
his life about Feb. @6.
Battled to StandStill for two
months and then thrown back by
MacArthurs httle army Of valiantS,
Homma is believed to have COM
mitted hara-kiri in the same suite
of rooms in the Manila hotel that
had been occupied by Macarthur,
BATTLE IN LULL
A lull was hung over the Bataan
battlefront for the past "a hours,
tCday'S war department cOmmuni-
que said, perhaps while YamaShita
reorganizeS his forces for an effort
to repeat his Malayan-Slngapore
triumph.
YamaShita has C. nblished his
field headquarters at San Fernando
in Pampanga province, about Is
miles northeast of the Bataan bat
tlefront and 10 miles north Of
Manila bay.
The new japanese commander
n-chief in the Philippines is ST.
three years older than his prede-
ceSsor, and was commander of the
japanese forces in China prior TO
being given command of the inva-
sion of Malaga.
Graduated from the japanese
military academy in 1906. he rose to
the rank of colonel by 1929. He
served as military attache to Aus
tria- Hungary before the first world
war.
In 1882 he was appointed chief
of the Japanese war Department.
military affairs section and giVer
command OF the third infantry
regiment.
RAPID PROMOTION
In 1884 Yamashita, a major gen.
eral became chief of the war de-
partmentS research bureau and two
years later returned to the field in
command of the 40th infantry
brigade He became Il lieutenant
general in 1897 and participated in
the Shansi campaign in north
China
He was named chief OF staff of
the north China eXpeditionary
army in 1888 and two years later
became director general of the army
air corps inspectOratc headquarters
although he had no experience il
aerial warfare
A year ago he headed a japanese
mission TO Berlin.
Within a short time he was re-
rOrted to be indoctrinating the
japanese army with what he haC
learned in Germany. Immediately
trior to the outbreak of the war ir
the Pacific on Dec he was heaC
s. a., Iapa0ece forces in China