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Hongkong Reported in Last Ditch Stand; Singapore Front Quiet
Heroic Defense Led
By Colonial Governor
Enemy Lands
at Several Points
on Main Island
By liEOHCiF LA IT
lul l s*r»«r# Mtfl <«rrr»p**«a»nl
LONDON. Dor. 20. Britain '«
Hongkong mg -c-w
--»tant bomb and shr 11 barrage*
levelled from all aides by ovn
whelmingly superior Japanr-f
forces, was reported tonight to hr
Fnakmg an epic last-ditch --tand
while a lull prevailed in the fight
ing In Malaya, above Singapore.
Having rejected three Japanese
Ultimatums demanding surrender
Sir Mark Young govrrnoi of the
crown colony, was leading his
forces personally in the heroic
defense that drew a tribute even
from the enemy whose tioo(>« had
landed at sex era! points on the
main island which tries nought to
take by storm
Loss Held Inevitable
Despite the tenaeious resistance
by British. Canadian and other im-
E trial units holding several Hong
one fortified points against en
circling enemy fire, it was ac
knowledged by a London military
apokesman that the “fall of the
island is inevitable ”
Only a “miracle." it was stated,
rould now save the colonv that
Britain has held for a century.
(The Chinese high command
at Chungking announced that
Chinese troops, struggling to re
lieve Hongkong, had broken into
Shumehun on the mainland fron
tier of the colony and destroyed
considerable Japanese installa
tions before retiring from the
city as enemy reinforcements
rushed in.
i The Chinese claimed they
had destroyed all of Shumchun s
outer defense works before re
tiring from the area. The British
embassy in Chungking announced
it had received a message from
Hongkong's Governor Young at
11 a. m. Saturday (9 p. m. De
troit time, Friday), saying that
the Japanese “have not as yet
obtained control of the island. )
Seek to Delay Foe
(The official Japanese news
.agency, Domei. acknowledged,
according to a Tokio broadcast,
that the “expected imminent
fall" of Hongkong had been
: “staved off by the “stubborn
defense" of the British imperials
who must merit the “respect of
; the tough Japanese *
(Military experts in the United
States had pointed out that
,* Britain had never expected to
hold Hongkong indefinitely, hut
that Hongkong s role in Fai
Eastern strategy called for a de
laying action which now appears
to be successfully in progress )
The British were cheered Satur
day morning hy a telegram direct
from Gov. Sir Mark Young in
which he advised the colonial of
fice that “operations are still pro
ceeding." German and Japan*m
propaganda claims that the gov
ernor had left Hongkong island
Were termed “totally untrue “
Believe Victoria Holds
• Sir Mark’s message was fol
lowed by an announcement shortly
*fter noon Saturday that the
Hongkong garrison “still hold-'
nut” ana “still maintains com
*nunication with the outside
world For many hours prior to
receipt of the governor’s telegram
no word had been received from
Hongkong either at London or at
Chungking where the British em
bassy had been in frequent com
munication with the rrow n colony
The exact military situation at
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(Hongkong wa« not precisely
known in Tendon, hut the fact
that the governor was able to get
a me-sage out indicated he re
mained in .jKi-session of at least
one omne jvoint. probably in the
island - main city of Victoria.
Pi«» latest communique
broadcast from Tokio claimed
the Japanese were engaged
'mopping up" on Hongkong
Island »
Singapore Report
How long Hongkong's defendei>
can hold out against the appar
ently increasing Japanese pressure
could not be foretold, but few
military sources in London would
deign to prophesy that the colony,
otic oi the world’s greatest ship
ping centers, would still be in
British hands Monday.
The latent communique from
Singapore said there was "nothing
to report' cither from the Kuan
River front to which the British
had retired after having given up
the island 1 KM't of Penang, or from
the Kelantan front below. Japa
nese occupied Kola Bahru in
north cjfsi British Malax a.
An earlier Singapore commu
nique te|»orted "no activity along
the northern border of Perak
Province on the Krian where, ihc
bulletin staled. British impel ial
troops “are reorganizing" 10 meet
the expected renewal of the Japa
nese offensive toward Britain's
most important far eastern bas
tion. This communique told of a
"short encounter" on the road to
Grik Friday in which the British
killed more than bo Japanese.
Form New Line
London military sources pointed
out that the British withdrawal in
northw* -t Malaya was conducted
without interference to a new and
stronger line from which it is ex
pected firmer resistance can be.
gixen the next Japanese thrust
From the Krian River south
ward all the* way to Singapore, it
was understood, ihc British are
augmenting a system of fortifica
tion which will he relied upon to
sustain furthot Japanese assaults.
P was acknowledged that the
loss of the naval |»ori of Penang
represented a heavy blow since ihe
Japanese undoubtedly will tiv to
use that island as a base tor sub
marine and aerial operations in the
Indian Ocean, as well as for
thrusts against Singapore itself
However, the British garrison
was said to have wrought “cnn-id
tcrablc destruction " in Penang lit*,
foie it "withdrew at leisure." .1
Pelham, County Aide,
Hurt in Fall at Home
Benjamin R Pelham chief
county accountant, is recuperating
in Providence Hospital from in
juries suffered in a fall at his
home, -1180 Burns Hvenue. Thurs
day. Pelham suffered minor in
juries and is expected to leave the
hospital within a short time.
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Enemy Airports
Reported in
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Guatemala
Axis Inffuence
Also Seen in Other
Southern Nations
W ASHINGTON Dee 20 1 INS)
Fix** an ports and fuel deposts
within soo miles of the Panama
. l '.tn+l- 1 ■ «lay—are oftet ated-by Axe*
a gen V s . a report hy the House
committee investigating air trans
portation which toured Latin
America, disclosed today.
The flying fields are located In
Guatemala. Central America, the
committee said in its report to the
House, and there is evidence of
“strong" subversive activity as
well as control of other airports
in scattered sections of the sister
republics. Guatemala has a total
of 18 airports.
The committee added that ihcre
are 2.200 members of the Nazi
Gestapo in Buenos Aire«. Argen
tina, where “a large contingent of
siorni Lroups has been organized
and that secret drilling is now
in progress "
Hinting that Germany has per
fected plans for widespread in
dustrial sabotagp in Buenos Aires,
the report stated “in a crisis they
could probably establish an oper
ating base in Argentina and cause
considerable difficulty."
"In all of these countries," the
committee said, “there is a
strong Avvnreness of the (longer
that threaten* from the sub
versive Activities of the Axis
powers, including the closely
knit military or semi-military
organizations knows to exist.
“Bill the subversive foreps
are strong, and their continuance
lias a very direct and harmful
effect upon inter-American avia
tion."
Group Formed
To Study Miners
WASHINGTON. Dec. 20 HNS).
President Roosevelt today signed
a congressional resolution creating
a commission to investigate meas
ures for improving economic con
ditions in the anthracite coal prn
'dtirmg regions.
The President also fixed bis sig
nature to an act providing for
pensions for officers and enlisted
men of the nation’s armed services
who are disabled in line of duty.
The measure also provides for
pensions to dejiendents- of those
who,die *n the armed services in
line of duty.
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Reds Take Rail Center
Northwest of Moscow
Report Advances
on Other Fronts;
Retake Towns
MOSCOW, T >ec. 21 (Sunday).
iIN'Si. - Recapture of Voloko
lamsk. important railway city 62
■ rvnl»- w-n-i—nod fwnih »»f
and of two other strategic towns
to the north and south was an
nounced by (he Rod army early
today as the Russian Winter offen
, sive rolled steadily'-'westward from
the Finnish front down to the Sea
of Azov.
On the northern front, a mid
night communique related. Russian
troops battered their way west
from 'i'*' Volkhov River and re
trieved Voihakalo 40 miles east of
Leningrad, alter "wiping out" the
221 si German division and two
regiments of another division, com
prising altogether some 19.(MX) off 1 -
.ccrx and nun,
Also reoocupied during a victor
ious Saturday when, according 10
the bulletin, “our troops engaged
the enemy on all fronts." was the
town of Plavsk. -10 miles from
Tula on Ihe. road to Orel. Kursk
and Kharkov.
Battle at Sevastopol
With the sixth month of the
Russo-German war drawing to a
close. Soviet troops were on the
offensive throughout the vast
theater of conflict, except in the
Crimean area around the big naval
base oi Sevastopol.
There, according to the govern
ment newspaper I/.vestia. the Ger
mans launched a heavy assault
with “large forces." Rut the de
fenders of Sevastopol were re-
Im.ii-mI in have repulsed the Nazi
attacks with heavy losses and were
said to be “firmly" holding their
lines.
Besides the German forces re
ported annihilated at Voihakalo.
which lies south of Lake Ladoga
on the Leningrad-Tikhvin-Volgda
railroad, the latest communique
credited one Red army unit in a
soul hern sector of the Moscow
front with having slain 1.500
I Nazis in "Fierce battles."
3 Troopships Sunk
Tn another Moscow sector, it
was added, a Rod army force ex
i-d two bast dions
’on Frida v and in '(ill another
central sector the Germans were
.said to have been driven out of
an additional 12 “populated
places ’
A disaster to German troops at
sea was announced in the Saturday
communique which said a lone
Soviet submarine had torpedoed
and sunk three fully-laden German
troopships, aggregating 25,500 tons,
in the Arctic.
Many Nazi lives were believed
ihe transports, which were es
teh transports, which were es
corted by destroyers and t»atrol
boats, were bringing reinforce
ments to the Murmansk front or
withdrawing troops from that
cruelly cold urea where three
German olknsives have been shat
tered
30 Villages Retaken
(British reports have .said the
Germans have withdrawn all or
most of their forces from Fin
land after the Russians broke
through the Finnish line along
the Svir River.)
Throughout Saturday a steady
stream of Soviet front-line dis
patches told a tale of continuing
advances in all the main sectors.
One Red army force, according to
Pravda. recovered 30 villages
southwest of Moscow Friday and
annihilated 1.600 Germans.
In three days, the Soviet south
ern army was credited with having
“liberated" 150 towns and villages
in the Donets basin, while Russian
dive bombers were inflicting great
losses on the retreating Germans.
Soviet Ship Sunk
By Jap Bombs
BATAVIA. Dee. 20 HNS). -
Japanese planes bombed and sank
the 2,400-ton Russian freighter
"Perekop" in Netherlands Fast
Indies waters, killing eight mem
bers of the crew, it was officially
announced tonight.
Netherlands authorities gen
erally expressed surprise and in
dicated their belief thaT “serious
consequences’ may arise, insofar
as Russia i< a neutral in the Pa
cific war and at jveace with Japan
through a neutrality treaty.
At least 17 Jap planes took part
in the attack, the announcement
revealed.
Thirty-two members of the crew
were said to have been saved, in
cluding the ships master. Captain
Vimidov. and three women.
The freighter was making bs
regular tun between Vladivostok
and Surabaya, Java, when at
tacked. the government reported.
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\V A SHINT.TO N\ Dec 20 -
(INS) The navy for the first
time today released a hint that
enemy suhmariires’~have been op
erating off the Atlantic Coast.
While details were not dis
cussed, the news of such action
was revealed in a press release
designed to show how broadcast
ing of weather reports may aid
the enemy.
Aids Subs in Atlantic
“How a pre<** ne/vs radio
broadcast about weather aided
operation of enemy submarine**
on the Atlantic Coast was re
vealed today by the navy de
partment," the memorandum
slated.
“The commanding officer of a
naval hasp in the Atlantic heard
a news weather broadcast tq>e
ctflcally mention sub-freezing
weather in the Dakotas and a
temperature of 9 degrees below
zero at Duluth, points remote
from the coast and apparently
not concerned with naval or
military operations. ,
“Being weather-wise, the com
manding officer immediately con
cluded that in a few days hence
his patrol area would have a
clear day or two with high visi
bility and conditions ideal for
enemy submarine attack.
Also Help in Attack
“Special precautions were
taken in patrol work on the cal
culated day, which turned out as
predicted, and in the course of
operations it became apparent
that enemy submarines had also
picked up the same information
and made the same deduction.
“It was pointed out that the
Information so inadvertently
broadcast would also have been
of benefit to an enemy air at
tack along any jmint of the
‘weather route* in the North
American continent.**
Dutch Pilots Bag 5 Jap
Warships and Seaplane
American-Made
Planes Used in
East Indies Raid
BATAVIA. Dec. 20 (INS).
Netherlands pilot-. living Amer
ican-made planes, were credited
4*might w-tth having knocked <mt
of action three Japanese cruisers
and two other enemy ships, in
cluding a plane-carrying vessel,
in telling air attacks on naval
formations off the North Borneo
oil port of Miri in British Sara
wak.
In two separate raids, bombers
lof the Dutch East Indies army
air force scored direct, damaging
hits on two Nipponese cruisers
and two tian (Kiits. one of which
reportedly was being used as :i
converted aircraft carrier, two
Batavia communiques announced
this afternoon and evening.
This brought to lime tlx* num
ber of Japanese cruisers crippled
and put out of commission by
Netherland' He r- since Wednes
day when a direct hit had set afire
anil immobilized an enemy cruiser.
I also lying off Mm. where the Jap
anese have invaded the nil-nch
[British protectorate of Sarawak.
Seaplane Shot Down
During t!ie first of the latest
two attacks ~n Miri harbor, one
Japanese >< tpji no u 1- shot down
and a second w,t> soon flipping in
flames, the Ea»t Indies high com
mand aim* in** (I acknowledging
that one Dutch bomber had been
lost
In this raid it w,*- stated, “one
direct hit and one near miss on a
jeruiser wen seen and also one
;direct Tut and nvo near mis.ses
were observed on another ship,
presumably a ship used for trans
porting airplan- -
In the evening a second com
munique minted that the Dutch
piloted, American-made bombers
Saturday morning “again attacked
Japanese warships and transports
lying off Miri and again scored a
direct hit on a Japanese cruiser
and anothei direct on anothei
transport ship.
(Exchange telegraph- in a
Batavia dispatch to London
quoted L>utcfi authorities as say
Sunday, December 21, 1911
ing one of the bombed cruisers
had “probably sunk." A Reuters
dispatch said The Netherlands
fliers left one of the enemy
cruisers and a transport en
veloped in flames. The London
radio was heard by CBS to state
that Netherlands troops, striking
from the Dutch area of Borneo,
had made a surprise raid jnfo
Sarawak, capturing some of the
j Japanese invaders.!
The PutCh La-i In !i< - coni
mm id! further trnTTUTJTTTnrt 0114*
or two Japanese bombers were
I spotted over various parts of the
archipelago’s eastern sections, and
that according to rejx>rts not yet
confirmed "one of our airfields in
the outer possessions was at
tacked by Japanese bombers."
85 Believed Killed
The communique listed 85 per
sons killed and 150 wounded in
previous Japanese raids against
the East Indies towns of Terempa
and Pontiannk, with 65 killed in
Terempa alone in the Anamba*
Islands where, however, Jinle
damage was wrought.
In a raid Friday on T'nntianal:.
on the west coast of J hitch Rot
n**o. it was announced, 20 persons
were killed and 50 seriously in
jured. The raiders, which dropped
50 bombs and machine gunned
the streets, “are believe i to be
based" in Sarawak, the bulletin
[said.
Sugar Price
Ceiling Fixed
WASHINGTON Dee 20 INS).
Price Administrator L*"n Hen
derson tonight fixed pi ice rep.
mgs for refined Migai in m effort
to fore-tall retail price increases.
“By this action," Henderson
declared, "the office of price
administration has remov'd all
|K>*4ih|litv that retail outlet*
will he forced to pay more for
their supplies of sugar.
"lienee there is no reason for
American housewives to pax an*'
higher prices for tills fundamen
tal foodstuff than they did be
fore the attack on I'earl Harbor
December 7."