CURRENT EVENTS MARCH 1, 1942

CUMBERLAND SUNDAY TIMES


CUMBEBLAND, MARYLAND, SUNDAY, MARCH 1. 1942


Commanders in Hawaii Debacle Face Trial
JAPANESE FORCES INVADE JAVA
Germans Caught Napping by British Invaders

Charges Against Walter C.
Short and Husband E.
Kimmel Based on
Roberts' Report
ORDER INDICATES
HEARING AFTER WAR
Meanwhile. Both Are in
Retirement on $6,000 Annual
Salary; Relieved of
Posts After Attack
Washington, Feb 28. (AP}—Major
General Walter C. Short and Rear
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel were
ordered today to stand trial by
courts martial on the charge of
"dereliction of duty" for failing to
take proper safeguards against a
surprise Japanese attack on Pearl arbor----
Nippon Hordes Run Gantlet Of Allied Nation's Pacific Fleet
And Air Corps To Make Landing
First Troops, Part of Massive
Transport-Borne Invasion
Force, Land in
Northwest Bantam
Batavia, Java, Sunday, March 1
(AP)~Japanese invasion hordes running
the guantlet of the Allied Nation's
southwest Pacific fleet and
air corps landed last night and
early. today in western and middle
Java, last night.----


TOMMYS DROP FROM SKY INTO FRENCH AREA
London, Feb. 28—Striking boldly
into German-garrisoned France for
the first time since 1940, British
parachutists and heavily-armed infantry
last night carried out a successful
surprise invasion 100 miles
across the English Channel and for
a few brief hours spread terror and
confusion among the Nazi defenders
of the mouth of the Seine.----

Baby Bottle Nipples Playing
Their Part For V. S. Defense
In Fact, Nation's Largest User of Them is One of U. S.
Leading Airplane Engine Manufacturers, Slipping
Them Over Openings to Make Certain no
Foreign Objects Fall Into Motors-