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23. 1942

lavas Defenders Launch British Move Stalwart‘ Counter - drive To consolidate»

Rush preparations for

desperate fight to

save Island; 18 to 35 Jap war and other vessels sunk or damaged in fierce sea - air battle

(By Witt Hancock. Associated Press ltef! Writer) IANDOENG, N. E. 1., Feb. zz-(Alfi-The main Netherlands forces their allies, vastly heartened by the smashing results of a stalwart

' and sea counter-

' _., rushed preparations today for a desper-

miii fei- Java and made ready for wholesale application of the . should Japanese invaders force their way upon this richest end

. ppplllilll! island of the Indies. While the Japanese apparently

were making little if any headway

their invasion of Bali, east of Java, and were making but slow pro-

. in southern Sumatra at the

opposiin end of this eoo-mlie-long

i the increasing effectivenesg of nllied airmen and sellers in , Japanese invasion fleets and aircraft formations was greeted

as a good sign for the eventual The Netherlands ’

re .. today that at least eight

probably l0 Japanese bomb- ymd fighters were shot down lhree bottles over Java Satur-

ss the Nipponcse stabbed at ..- es in an effort to smash from which so much dam- , was done :0 their operations of: Bali and Sumatra.

Knock Down Three Bombers

- 15 Japanese bombers and nuinbor oi Iighlers which at- eii an unidentified airdroine in m hive. the defenders ked down at least three bomb- an?! believed foo they a got curl .

‘they also nllscked a. formation _lil Jar so fighters which id lo hi‘ this mlliinry head-

lcrs in ursicru Joya, shooting “l four and probably five. ili eighih Japanese plane, a -» was brought down over ing in e t Java near Bali. l1 use " the Netherlands ' Indies forces lost two planes the plou \\'('re siived. Ones i-ii his plane into his Jap- opuoneiif in order to bring

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elherlcnds authorities pivvenicd the Japanese from

lung Buiidoeng alrdronie, but lSflillc ll.llll.".g0 was done to her airfield which the Jap- s- allnckcd en route.

llllain today, the Japanese ap-

ily aficinplcd twice to raid cm- 0i 170.000, but were i- '. 'I‘wo air raid alarms ‘ill' b 11o planes appeared. ilhilcc fryer; lure compared position of Jma with that of ilun offer Duukcrque, Aneta, . Netherlands Indies news W. declared that the Japan- (Oonlinu on page 9, Col 5)

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outcome of the test.

ilhiiitSc advise Russians to “Strike first”

OHUNGKING. Feb. 32—(APl— An suiuoi-ltstlve Cn-nasc newspa- per summoned Russia today w “strike first" against the Japanese m. the same time that Gen. China: Kai-Shel: was predicting "practi- cal collaboration" between the Chinese and Russian Aimee.

The Central Dally News said that the “ostensible peace" new pevsil- lug on the Slherinn-Marichukuoan border was simply a. prelude to the storm that is likely to come.

"Russia tllerefcre should take the initiative and strfhfflrst rath- er than wait to be struck," the News said. "The oppzrtune time ii; strike is new when the Sovet cavalry can operate on the frozen sibsrinn frontier Just as they have done on the" western front against flcmianv."

Culsing predicted "practical col- laboration’ between Russian and Chinese ormrs against lhc Axis in

a message he sent (may to JOSEPH c,

Stalin on the eve of the Red Armv anniversary.

"I strsnizly believe the spiritual affinny b: i-ween cur two armies is isound tn b.‘cc1.r.c prsctcal c:llab- oration in action so twat we may oonsecraia cur sacind mission and glorify our history," Chung sand.

Jap é-eaplanie Scores Hit On Own Ship

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BBC said Saturday that Japanese

seaulanes scored a direct hit. on one of their own ships at Koevang. cap- ital of Netherlands Timor. - The radio mdded that 700 Japan- ese bombcr and fllhter pianesliad been destroyed in the southwest Pacific war so far. CBS heard the

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Empire front

London Rumors Claim Agreement On India Policy Condition Of

Cripps‘ E n t r y Cabinet. LONDON, Feb. 22—(CP)

—Prime Minister Churchill is planning to consolidate the Em- iire front in the Far East by granting additional powers of self government to India and by sending a cabinet representa- iive f0 the country in an effort to "put the India problem on a more satisfactory footing,” in- formed quarters said tonight. One source said that Sir Stafford Cripps, former Bri- tish Ambassador to Russia, had made it a condition of his ac- ceptance of a seat in the war cabinet that the Government reach an agreement on India

policy.

Sir Archibal Sinclair, Minister for Air. it wag forecast. would be the government representative sent to India to carry out the policy.

This-policy. it was said. as tenta- tively drafted provides for an In- dian national administration head- ed by Pundit Jawaharlsl Nehru. former president of the Nationalist Congress party.

A congress party coalition govern- ment in the British-provinces of Indie. now ruled by governors with the aid of advisers is also a part of the program. if. was reported.

e dramatic anneal of Gen. Chlaniz Kul-Shek of China to Bril- ain to grant India her freedom. one Indian said here. certainly was made known to the British govern- ment. and probably also to the Un- fled Slot-cs. before it was issued in New Dell-ii. Saturday.

i Government sources. however. de- ined to comment. on the appeal.

“I hope and believe that Britain. without waiting for any demand on the port of the Indian people will 11s speedily as possible Rive- their a real political power. This will be the wiesls polir-v. If. will, redound to fbc c" f fh Ffvlllsh Empire "__i,li_e_

(Con nuedARon page 9. Col 2)

Buffs to head Eastern Command

OTTAWA, Feb. 22—tCPl Air lvlinstei‘ Power wnight announced Air Vicc-hlarshal A. A. i... Cuffe, Air number for air staff at Royal Canadian Air Force headquarters here, has been posted as officer conunanding the eastern sir com- mand at Halifax.

He succeeds Air Vice-Marshal M. R. Anderson who becomes air member for nlr staff.

Experience gained by Air Vice- Marshal Cuffe as a member of the inch-national joint. commission with the United States was the reason announced for the change.

The necemit-y of increasing co- operation with the United States on the eastern seaboard dictated the selection of an air officer commanding who had intimate knowledge of the joint defence plans, the statement announcing the changes said,

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Indian ‘Leaders

Seel:

Real Political Power

Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru says “this mush be the people's war".

Stalin's message To lied Army

MOSCOW Ilsb. as --(Mondsy) — (AH-Premler Joseph Stalin told the Red army today in an order of the day on its 34th anniversary that ‘we shall throw- the enem from the gates of Leningrad an liberate éwtlillh Quail, the Ukraine and the

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NEW DELHI, m. n-(Ciii-A conference of Indian leaders out- side the two great Political D8114“ ._the All India Congress Part-v and the Ail India-Mosleni Leone ..adopted a resolution today sill‘!- portingthe expressed hope "If! 5°‘ lief of Gen. Ohillld Kel-Shek that Britain would arm 1nd" political pvw" II m“ " 1”" sibie.

1n e farewell melllll l" m4“ “smiley, ohianr. as if sow himself to Britain. said their V”; mijomy 9f the worlds coin: ion is in iiiu symvsthv vii-f I“ 51y; aspiration for freedom.

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War Situation Last Night

(n; KlRKlt 1. SHVIIPSON, Associated rm} win Analyst)

Events of the last week,

strident with sounds of battle slow and aloft. all around the world, cast little

new light on broad trends of the

Allied-Axis conflict. They did powerfully reinforce, however, the conclu-

sion that the self-propelled torpedo lied victory,

still is the deadliest menace to al-

Ships that sail the surface of the see. are the backbone of United

Nation power. Without shipping and naval craft to |nto and cargo carriers, it would be almost impossible to bring vastly greater power and economic and industrial might to

Allied resources in man bear against the Axis. T“, does fired from

protect transports

submarines brought Germany almost within

Bill"- 0! Via-OI‘! in the First Great War. They are causing the greatest

sea havoc in cargo tonnage in this

war. U-boats alone, however, could

not win this war at sea any more than they could win the bet. U I I I O I

The prime new weapon that this war has seen in deadly action is

neither the aerial bomb course plane.

nor the tank. greatly as both have affected the of’ the conflict. It is the flying torpedo, launched from an sir-

The day of the flying torpedo was foreseen in more than 30 years

are. Rear Adminal

Bradley A. Flake, U. S. N.,

retired, began exploring

its possibilities half a. "ecasle before the outbreak of the last war. No plane of sufficient lifting power to carry even a. small self-propelled tor- pedo had yct been flown or designed. That did not dauni. Flske's in-

sistcnce that such a W ,. fare,

would

e s e

dc ' ,. to revolutionize nsval war-

e e e

This writer talked with Fiske in 1915. The naval officer then held patents for both the theory and device for distant radio control of self- propelicd vehicles of any type afloat or ashore, patents obtained even before radio communication was assured. Evolveinent of the Tesla co- herer in the ‘W's had set him dreaming of the war possibilities oi’ radio while he was serving as Commodore Dewey's flag officer before the war

with Spain. With the first plane flights by

the Wright brothers in 1903. Flake

was fascinated by the possibility of aerial torpedoes. By 1910 he had in- duced naval experimentation with means of dropping torpedoes success- fully from planes to attack surface fleets otherwise secure in landlocked

harbc rs.

A score 0f years passed before that Fiske dream, like his fore-vision

oi’ distant radio oontroi, was realised. It I O

I e e

Every naval power now relies heavily on flying torpedoes. The heav- iest naval casualtics of this war, American, British, German, ltnliiin and Japanese, have flowed from that fact.

The most recent eo "

heavily armed surface ships have

‘ y evidence that it is flying torpedoes, not nli- bombs nor submarine torpedo attacks. "P312185! IIIWlIIS "id most to fear came

» ‘tile Nazi escape

from Brest. Ten months of night and day British high-altitude bombing

at those three German heavy war

craft failed to knock them out or

cripple them while they were in port. Harbor contours did not permit

formic-plane attack even had the

Nazi anti-aircraft uni-rages or de-

fending planes been unable to prevent that form of assault.

Russians ‘Eagerly Await News Of Great Successes

Red Army reported pressing forward;

Huge amount of supplies abandoned.

By Eddy Gilmore _ Associated Press Staff Writer

SOMEWHERE WElST 05f MUS- cQw, Feb. 2l-1AP)-M;ll1;:1s of Rad cro:-p,~ wsre reported pressing forward pzriighf. o.c1- the frssli. snony graves oi 303000 Germans while throughout lite vast expans: or Russia. inc 900.16 938ml? R- vrniied nnvs cl Lreiiundous vlclcr- lcs they expect lo hen“ tomorrow on iheir 1i1y's 24th iilllllVJTSlilT.

PfllVClli. the Communist. Party newspaper, przbably set the Key- note cf ins great. crlobratizzi lll llflllllllnfllllg 300.0;0 Gennans we._e killed biz-ween Dzc. 6 and J-aii, la

"The spirit. of Hltefs army has been broken," Prawn d.cl:1r.=d.

1v sa d German cases in lire firs! five monihs of war were a sag- gsring 6,000,000 and added:-

"Wc must. and will bent sllll more vlgcrously."

Like Night Before Christmas Evcrywhsi-e in Rusls. it was

like lhs night. before Christmas. Tllie air oif CXDECllIIlCY was univer- e8

them

Carrespozidcnils were n'_l:wed_ to explore l-fe v3sl $l’iO.\‘-D_ll€d areas llbéiill-Qfl from lhe ficclilll Ger- rhari-s and to sec huge $30125 of Nazi instruments of death which marked the route of retreat.

The hlizh command continued to shroud its pperations in mystery snri spoke of "continued active military operations against the German Fascist, invaders."