Friday, March 19, 2010

CURRENT EVENTS MARCH 5, 1942


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Oakland Tribune
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1942

'Fight On, Help On Way' Java Is Told;
M'Arthur Drowns Thousands of Japs

Allies May Attack From Other
Side at Any Moment Now/
Van Mook Exhorts Army
BANDOENG, Java, Friday, March 6.—(IP)—Holding out
the hope that "at any moment the attack on the enemy will
be launched from another side" by the Allies, the Lieutenant
Governor General of the Dutch East Indies urged Java's
inhabitants to continue their stout resistance to the Japanese,
in an address last night before the People's Council.----

Explosions Add to Heavy
Toll on Sunk Transports
Loaded With Enemy Troops
WASHINGTON, March 5.—(7P)—General Douglas Mac-
Arthur reported to the War Department today his belief that
thousands of Japanese soldiers were drowned in the surprise
raid of his little air force on Subic Bay, north of the Bataan
Peninsula fighting front in the Philippines.----

Maps Show japs Live in Strategy Areas
County Utilities,
Military Sites Are
Practically Surrounded
The "startling coincidence" that
Japanese live virtually next door to
every important airfield, military
camp, naval base, railroad center,
war industry and public utility in
Alameda County as well as in all
of California, was revealed today
by Assistant State Attorney General
Warren Olney.----

Burma Line is Broken
Japanese Streaming
Across Sittang to
Strike at Rangoon
By DANIEL DE LUCE
MANDALAY, Burma, March 5 —
(AP)—Japanese i n v a s i o n forces
streamed across the lower reaches
of the Sittang River and headed
down the west coast of the Gulf of
Martaban today, putting behind
them the last natural barrier on
the route to Rangoon.

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