CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 17, 1942

(Source) The Salt Lake City Tribune

Sail Lake City, Utah, Tuesday Morning, February 17, 1942

Dutch Fire Sumatra Oil Base

Leave Palembang

Center Ablaze

As Enemy Enters

—* Allies—(Official)

By Associated Press

The Dutch East Indies lay

sorely wounded Monday night,

their biggest oil fields at Palembang

in southern Sumatra

ablaze but in Japanese control---

Japs Intensify! Battle to Take Bataan

MacArthur's Lines Furious Barrage

»~. U. S.—(Official)

By United Press

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 — A

surging- Japanese offensive by dive

bombers, artillery -and ground

forces Monday heralded quick resumption

of a .Japanese attempt

to knock out American defenses

in the Philippines, irritating thorn

in the side of any all-out Japanese

thrust against the Indies.

Utah Men Rush To Register for New Draft Roll

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