RAAF blasts Japs headed for Australia
Start big fires and smash ground forces of foes
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Censorship station set up in El Paso
Washington, Feb. 25 (UP) –
Governmental officials disclosed tonight that a postal censorship station has been established in El Paso, Tex., to examine mail between the United States and Mexico.
The station, which will employ some 200 persons, is one of a series that will operate the length of the Mexican border. Location of the others was not revealed.
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U.S. Navy Department (February 27, 1942)
Navy Communiqué No. 46
Far East.
The following submarine commanders have been awarded the Navy Cross in recognition of their especially meritorious conduct during actions with the enemy:
- Lt. Cdr. C. C. Smith, USN
- Lt. Cdr. K. C. Hurd, USN
- Lt. Cdr. W. L. Wright, USN
- Lt. Cdr. M. C. Mumma Jr., USN
- Lt. Cdr. E. B. McKinney, USN
- Lt. J. C. Dempsey, USN
- Lt. W. G. Chapple, USN
Citations are not yet available as the above awards were made in the sphere of action by the Commander of United States Naval Forces, Southwest Pacific, Vice Admiral William A. Glassford Jr., U.S. Navy.
There is nothing to report from other areas.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (February 27, 1942)
Hour-pay showdown is delayed
Bitter debate is carried over to today by House
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Jap position pushed back by MacArthur
Attack by defenders forces invaders to withdraw
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U.S. airmen score anew
Allied aces in Burma bag 21 more planes
Reinforced Nipponese units deployed for main assault on Rangoon
By William Humphreys, United Press staff writer
Bulletin
Mandalay, Burma, Feb. 26 (AP) –
The Japanese offensive against the hilly, bush-covered Shan frontier in eastern Burma appeared virtually stalled today. The slow-moving Japanese offensive against the Shan frontier had apparently not made any substantial advance. British and Chinese troops in this sector have heavily mined the few roads, and bridges over frontier streams have long since been demolished.
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Americans with Dutch are ready
British, Australians also in line for showdown with invaders
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Dispute ends on pensions
Conferees agree on repeal measure
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Two officers killed in Army plane
Fort Dix, NJ, Feb. 26 (AP) –
Two Army officers on a training mission were killed late today when their plane crashed and burned two miles east of the main camp here.
The men were:
- 2nd Lt. Donald L. Chase, Milwaukee, Wis.
- 2nd Lt. Thomas N. Lewis, Garden City, NY.
They were attached to the 126th Observation Squadron, a former Wisconsin National Guard unit based at Fort Dix.
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U.S. may clarify Vichy relations
Washington, Feb. 26 (AP) –
Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State, indicated today that a statement clarifying relations between the United States and Vichy governments might be issued tomorrow.
Relations with Vichy became strained some weeks ago by reports that Axis forces in Libya were receiving aid through French Tunisia.
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BULLETINS!
London, Feb. 27 (AP) –
Russian cavalrymen, pushing on from the Staraya Russia area below Lake Ilmen where their comrades have trapped a huge German Army, have reached the vicinity of Sustjevo on the Dno-Nevel railway only 72 miles short of the Latvian frontier, dispatches from Stockholm said today.
Ottawa, Feb. 26 (AP) –
Prime Minister Mackenzie King told the House of Commons tonight that Canadians trained under compulsory service could be sent to Alaska or the United States to help repel any invasion attempt.
Rome, Feb. 27 (AP) – (from Italian broadcasts)
An Axis submarine sank a 7,000-ton British freighter 40 miles off Gibraltar yesterday, Stefani reported in a Lisbon dispatch.
Stockholm, Feb. 27 (UP) –
Responsible Danish sources here said this morning that German troops were moving through Denmark to Norway to reinforce the hitherto small Norwegian occupation garrison in what appeared to be a hurried series of preparations for any Allies invasion thrust.
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Reading Eagle (February 27, 1942)
JAPS SPREAD WAR TO INDIAN TERRITORY
Allies attack armada again off Sumatra
Nipponese hit Andaman Isles port southwest of Rangoon in farthest peak west
By the Associated Press
Allied warplanes rained new blows upon a Japanese invasion armada off Bangka Island today amid indications that the badly-mauled enemy was awaiting reinforcements before risking a climactic assault against the United Nations’ stronghold of Java.
Bangka lies off the east coast of lower Sumatra, 270 miles north of Batavia.
Indian Ocean port attacked by Japs
Far to the northwest, Japan sent an aerial “feeler” attack against Port Blair in the Andaman Islands, in the Indian Ocean, 350 miles southwest of Rangoon, Burma, carrying the war to Indian territory for the first time.
Three Japanese planes bombed and machine-gunned the port on Tuesday and Thursday, executing Japan’s farthest thrust to the west since the war began. Two civilians were killed, five wounded.
The Andaman Islands are strategically important as a base for possible Japanese invasion of Ceylon or India. They are athwart shipping lanes of the Bay of Bengal and represent one of the backfoot routes for seaborne supplies to Russia and China.
Hard hit by shipping and plane losses, the Japanese made no claim of tightening the siege of Java, heart of the Dutch East Indies, where it was disclosed that “many thousands” of American, British and Australian troops were grimly and with some eagerness awaiting the invaders.
The official slogan was:
Fight like wildcats and fight like hell!
A bulletin from NEI headquarters said there had been a noticeable slackening in Japanese air assaults during the past few days, and it was apparent that the arrival of cannon-blasting American Flying Fortresses and other aerial reinforcements had at least tempered Japan’s superiority in the skies.
Besides pounding Japanese ships off Bangka Island, United Nations bombers also delivered a violent attack on military targets near Japanese-held Palembang in lower Sumatra, starting big fires.
The Australian Air Force struck anew at Japanese-occupied Rabaul, New Britain Island, setting fire to wharves, shipping, military installations and airdromes.
A Dutch communiqué said nine Japanese bombers raided the Allied naval base at Soerabaja, in western Java, but declared that “our fighter soon drove the enemy away” and all bombs fell in the sea.
Unofficial communications indicate American and Dutch forces alone had sunk or damaged at least 222 Japanese ships – heavy blows to a program of conquest dependent upon long sea lines. Of the stricken vessels, 121 were listed definitely as sunk.
Lt. Gen. Hein ter Poorten, Commander-in-Chief of the Netherland Indies Army, welcomed the “many thousands” of Allied soldiers to Java in a broadcast from Batavia last night. He said, speaking in English:
I know your gallant record in the history of fighting. I know I can rely on you Americans, Australians and British to fight equally gallantly now alongside us Dutch.
The general said there was no room for blind optimism concerning the coming battle for the last great Allied bastion in the Western Pacific north of Australia, but that there was none for pessimism either.
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Unidentified ship aflame off coast
Survivors awaited at Asbury Park
Shore watchers report that vessel is tanker; first aid prepared
Flames light sky
Morro Castle burning in 1934 near same place recalled
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House vote expected on ending 40-hour week
Suspension of overtime pay for duiration also expected to be acted upon by lower chamber amid strong opposition
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Earle joins Navy today
Accepts commission offer; is being sworn in this afternoon
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OCD head accused of evading bans
Senator McKellar charges Landis ‘misuses’ funds
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Dearth of oil seen in East
Home heating supplies ‘dangerously low,’ PCO reports
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Tax average $131
Washington, Feb. 27 (UP) –
Federal, state and local taxes averaged $131 for each man, woman and child in the United States last year, the Census Bureau reported today.
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MacArthur pushes ahead at Bataan
Advances lines by one to eight kilometers along entire front
Push exploratory
Fighting is continuing between ‘light’ units of opposing forces
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Vichy rejects U.S. fleet-control step
Leahy demand spurned, Paris radio reports
London, Feb. 27 (AP) –
The German-controlled Paris radio said today, “it has been confirmed” that Admiral William D. Leahy, United States Ambassador in Vichy, has demanded that all movements of the French fleet should receive prior authorization from the United States.
The Vichy government, the radio added, has rejected:
…this intolerable demand.
The radio said, “it is rumored” in American circles in Vichy that in protest against the Vichy government’s refusal to his suggestion that Admiral Leahy will leave his post and United States representation will be left to S. Pinkney Tuck, Counselor of Embassy.
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