CURRENT EVENTS MARCH 10 1942

The Portsmouth Herald

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 1 0,1942 THREE CENTS

Moslems Threaten Revolt

Jap Troops Advance To India Oil Fields

Fire-Blackened Ruins

Mar Fallen Rangoon

(By The Associated Press)

Threats of a "revolt" by British-Ruled India's 77,000,-

000 Moslems further complicated the Allied effort in the

Far Pacific war theater today as Japanese troops surged

on westward beyond fallen Rangoon toward the Irawaddy

oil fields and the fabulous riches of India.

Rangoon itself, the Burmese capital,

was a city of fire-blackened

ruins.

Eden Charges Jap Atrocities At Hongkong

London, March 10 (AP)—Foreign

Secretary Anthony Eden charged in

the House of Commons today that

the Japanese army in Hongkong

had been guilty of wholesale atrocities

in the occupied crown colony

and declared that the Japanese

emperor and government and "The

whole Japanese people" were to

blame.

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