Current Events April 8, 1942; WAINWRIGHT TOOPS GIVING GRPUND:

THE BELLINGHAM HEARALD

Wednesday April 8, 1942

BATAAN FIGHTERS FALL BACK

WAINWRIGHTS TROOPS GIVE GROUND

The Charleston Gazette

The State Newspaper—Associated Press News and Wirephoto

Charleston, West Virginia, Wednesday Morning, April 8, 1942.

Both Sides Suffer Severe Losses

As Japs Inch Forward on Bataan;

U. S. Sub Sinks 2 Nipponese Ships

Boats Blasted In China Sea

10,000-Ton Combination

Passenger and Cargo,

5,000-Ton Cargo

Vessels Victims

U. S. Score Now 14

Sunk Since Saturday

Toll Since Dec. 7 brought

To 211, Including 83

Jap Warships

WASHINGTON, April 7.—

(INS)—The navy announced tonight

that a lone U. S. submarine,

again prowling close to

Japan, has sent two more Japanese

merchant ships to the bottom

of the China sea, raising to

14 the number of Nipponese vessels

revealed in the past four

days as sunk or damaged by

American armed forces

Hammer Blows Hit at Center

Stream of Reinforcements

Plugs Big Gaps Torn

In Enemy's Waves

Of Attacker

Main Lines Cracked

At Several Points

Bombers Leading All-Out

Assault Drop Missiles

On Field Hospital

WASHINGTON, April 7.—

(INS)—Japanese hordes, swollen

by fresh reserves and bulwarked

with bombers, tanks and heavy

artillery, plunged deeper into

American positions on Bataan

today as the epic battle on the

narrow peninsula raged on with

unabated savagery.