Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Current Events April 21, 1942; AIR ALARMS SOUNDING IN JAPAN:


                                Indiana Evening Gazette
          INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 19427

Japs Wheel Up Heaviest Artillery
In Desperate Bid For Corregidor
Hostilities Grow,
Says MacArthur
Communique
WASHINGTON, April 21.
(AP)—Heavy enemy attacks
have forced the American-
Filipino defenders to
withdraw from two positions
in the Province of Antique on
the West coast of the island
of Panay, the War Department
reported today.

Air Alarms Sounding in Japan
Nippon Still Tries to Explain First ' Attack
BURMA CRIS1S
AEF Planes to Join RAF in Enemy Offensive
By The Associated Press •
Japan launched an ap-
parent "peace offensive'*,
today as new air-raid
alarms were reported to
have sounded in central
and western Japan and the
Japanese cabinet received
details on the damage in-
flicted by American bombers
in Saturday's historic
assaults on Tokyo, Yokohama,
Nagoya and Kobe.
While warning of the
propaganda danger, American
officials have already
discounted such an Axis
peace drive with the
declaration that the Rome-
Berlin-Tokyo bloc could
not be trusted in a negotiated
peace.

Rely on Me” Say Darlan
Admiral's Order Underscores
Break of Military, Civil
VICHY, Unoccupied France, April


  1. (AP) —Admiral Jean Darlan,
commander of all o£ France's armed
forces, promised his fighting men
today that ::You can rely on me as
rely on you to proceed further
along the path of honor and defend
the empire."

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