The Portsmouth Times
PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1942
JAVA COSTS ALLIES 12 SHIPS. JAPS 8
2 U, S. WARSHIPS SUNK IN BATTLE;TOLL TO BE HIGH
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, March 14
The navy today announced
the sinking of 12 Allied warships,"with n 13th
believed lost, some in the battle to keep the Japanese
out of Java and the others in boldly trying to escape
from a tightly closed enemy trap in which they later
found themselves.
Two American ships, the cruiser Houston and the
destroyer John D. Pope, were among those lost. The
rest were Australian, British and Dutch.
These punishing reverses were offset in-part by
the destruction of or severe damage to eight Japanese
warships.
Reds Hack Nazi Ranks; Hitler's Plans Scanned
10,000 TROOPS
CLAIMED SLAIN
Russian Attack Is Pushed On All Three Of Main Battlegrounds
By EDDY GILMORE
Associated Press Staff Writer
MOSCOW, March 14 — Soviet
armies of the south and southwest
have killed 10,000 Germans
and captured or destroyed vast
stores of food, clothing and war
supplies in five days of savage
fighting over b a t t l e f i e l d s
churned into quagmires, by thawing
snow and ice, the Russians
announced tonight in a special
communique.
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