CURRENT EVENTS MARCH 16, 1942; Australia Attacked:

The Hayward Review

HAYWARD, CALIFORNIA MONDAY. MARCH 16, 1942

PORT DARWIN IS ATTACKED

BRITISH BETTER WAKE UP AND FIGHT THIS YEAR, WARNS

AUSTRALIAN EX-MINISTER

British Empire Stands Nearer

Destruction Than Ever Dreamed Of;

Mathematicians Should Lay Off

SYDNEY, Australia—Fourteen Japanese bombing

planes raided Darwin, on the North Australian coast, the

Sydney radio reported Monday.

Some casualties resulted and slight damage was caused,

the broadcast added.-----

Evening Capital

Annapolis, MD. Monday March 16, 1942

Fourteen Japanese Bombers Make Raid On Port Darwin Naval Base

ALLIES BATTER INVASION POINTS

American Four-Motored Bombers Attacks Japanese

Airport At Rabaul—British Troops In Burma

Make Counter-Attack Along Sittang River—

Moscow Reports Russian Troops On Approaches

To Kharkov—Russian Parachute Troops Reported

Behind German Smolensk Lines

Fourteen Japanese bombers struck again today at Darwin, capital

and port of the vast northern territory and potentially one of the

w remaining naval strong points of he United Nations southwest

Pacific.

The attack was but another of the assaults intended to neutralize

Darwin as a station for United Nations warships and planes with which

o oppose the threatened invasion range from the arc of enemy bases

in islands to the north.

The Sydney radio reported that only slight damage was suffered

n the raid, along with some casualties.----

Russian Front

Russian soldiers applying great

pressure on the Germans in the

Ukraine and the Donets basin

were reported to be standing upon

the approaches to the important

city of Kharkov, whose "hour of

liberation" was declared near.----

Bataan Quiet

The U. S. War Department reported

that an American four-motored

bomber attacked a Japanese

held airport at Rabaul and destroyed

at least two enemy planes

and-damaged the runways. There

was no activity reported from the

Philippines.----