CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 26, 1942

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Stimson Says 15 Enemy Ships Flew Over Los Angeles

By ROGER D. GREENE

Associated Press War Editor

American forces scored

Triumphs today in the Philippines

and the battle for Java

where Secretary of War

Stimson declared the United

Nations were putting up a

'magnificent" defense and

inflicting losses heavier than

the Japanese had admitted.

Stimson asserted, however,

that the dangers of war actually

loomed over American

coastal cities. He said unidentified

planes, possibly as

many as 15 and perhaps

operated by enemy agents,

were over Los Angeles early

yesterday d u r i n g a raid'

which Navy Secretary Frank

Knox characterized earlier

is a "false alarm."

Stimson said the raid, described

ate yesterday by Secretary of the

Navy Knox as a "false alarm," occurred

between 3:12 and 4:15 a. m.,

Pacific war time.

Anti-aircraft guns of the 37th

coast artillery brigade fired 1,430

rounds of ammunition at the planes,

which Stimson told a press conference

were officially reported as flying

at speeds ranging from "very

slow," to 200 miles an hour, and at

heights of 9,000 to 18,000 feet.

United Stales Losing Many Cargo Vessels

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. (AP)—

The United Stales was exacting a

punishing price from Japanese sea-

power for Nippon's Pacific conquests

today. but German U-boats kept

striking hard with frequent success

in the Atlantic.

In the savage two-ocean war of

attrition, the capital sought to

strike a balance of the gains and

losses