CURRENT EVENTS JANUARY 22, 1942

Thursday January 22, 1942

JAPS INVADE AUSTRALAIN AREA

    DRIVE TAKES IN NEW BRITIAN ISLAND

BATAN ATTACKS RENEWED BY JAPANESE

Invading Forces Number 200,000, report, With More Being Landed

NAZI TANKS SMASH THROUGH BRITISH LIBYA LINE

World Today

(By the Associated Press)

British launch counter-offensive in Malaya, attack main Japanese invasion armies seventy miles north of Singapore in critical battle;

Dutch destroy big oil wells at Balik Papan, East Borneo to balk Japanese seizure; U. S fortress bombers now based in Dutch East Indies;