CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 28, 1942

ALBUQUERQEU NEW Mexico's JOURNAL Wednesday February 28, 1942 

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                                        NEWSPAPER

U. S. and Dutch Warships Battling Big Jap Fleet

In Java Sea in Invasion Thrust at Vital Island

U. S. Forces Bag 410 Jap Planes, Stimson Reports

War Secretary Says

Enemy Losses 5 to 1

Greater Than Ours

19 VESSELS SUNK

Navy Secretary Adds

53 Ships to Total

Sent to Bottom

' .WASHINGTON, Feb. 27

(AP)^-Secretary of W a r

Stimson . declared Friday

that American Army flyers

and anti-aircraft gunners in

the Southwest Pacific have a 5

to 1 margin over the Japanese in

point of losses inflicted.

Rift in Russia, Japan Relations

Sea Clash Believed Opening of Enemy's

All-Out Drive for Dutch Base; United

Nations Air Forces Pounding Foe, Too

By the Associated Press ....

_ . Warships .of Japan and the-United!:Nations battled

in. the Java Sea Saturday in a clash which' may signal {he

start of-an. all-out Japanese drive-to Invade and: wrest

Java from the.,United .Nations