The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-06
War

Indies still presumably have ,
powerful striking weapon In de-
stroysrs and submarines.
The Tokyo communiQue also
asserted that . United States
cruiser Of the 7,050-ton Marble
bead type had been badly dam
aged and another 5.000-ton ship
sunk.
In Warrington, the Navy de-
partment said Il had mo in
formation here" on the japanese
claim Of . u. 3. cruiser damaged
In the Java sea attack, which
took place Feb. 4. the day after
the mass Japanese cir raid on
Soerabaja naval base.
The Java sea lies between
Borneo and the island Of Java,
headquarters of Gen. Sir Archi-
bald p. Wavelrs United Nations
command in the southwest Pa
cific.
POSSIBLE PROPAGANDA
Obviously q propaganda ef-
fort. the Tokyo communique
made no attempt to reconcile
its claim that three cruisers made
up the entire" Dutch Indies
fleet with the known fact that
q large part Of the Netherlands
European fleet - considerably
greater in strength - escaped to
far Pacific waters before Ger
many invaded Holland.
1.-THE japanese air action re-
suited in virtual humiliation of
the Dutch navy" Imperial Tok-
20 headquarters said--
Domei, reported that japanese
planes also sank q 10.0O0-ton
ship, set q 6,000-ton vessel afire
and scored bomb hits on three
Z, 000-ton craft In IN attack on
q transport convoy, escorted by
cruisers and destroyers, in the
Strait Of Malacca just west of
Singapore.
In the seven-day-old siege OF
Singapore, British guns thund-
cred defiance to japanese troops
massed across the mile-wide
strait of Johore while Raj Hur-
ricane fighters battled Rising
Sun planes in the skies over
head.
Yesterdays civilian afraid
Casualties in the beleaguered is
land citadel were II killed and
104 wounded, making q three
day toll of n dead and 1872
injured.
Four alarms sounded in Sing
apore before 8 am, indicating
that the Japanese were now vio-
lently assaulting the fortress city
as the prelude to Zero hour"
for an invasion attempt.
Other Japanese planes swept
over British troops on the north
shore of the island, subjecting
them to low-level bombing and
machine-gunning attacks.
On other fronts in the, two
months.old conflict:
Dutch East Indies - Mel.
headquarters acknowledged that
japanese troops had captured
the town Of Samarinda (pop.
10000, 90 miles north of Japa-
nese-occupied Balik Papan on
the east coast Of Borneo.
japanese planes renewed at
tacks on towns in East Java;
others were sighted over south
east Borneo and the east coast
Of Dutch Sumatra.
For the second straight day,
the Dutch command made no
mention Of the critical situation
on Amboina Island, site of the
Indies second biggest air-naval
base, on the flank of the United
Nations supply line from Aus
tralia. The latest word, on We'd
nesday, said Dutch troops were
still resisting sea-borne Japa-
nese invasion forces in bitter
fighting.
Burma-Japanese bombers in
seven waves blasted at Rangoon,
the Burmese capital, setting fires
in the suburban residential dis
trict, and Burma's home minis
ter warne dagainst further re-
treat in the land fighting.
MENACE BURMA
I'VE now are 50 close to the
heart Of Burma that any further
withdrawal will be dangerous"
he said.
London military quarters said
British defenders OF Burma were
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