CURRENT EVENTS MARCH 19, 1942; MacArthur Escapes to Australia:

Oakland Tribune

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1942

New Jap Cruiser Hit; Foe Nearing Moresby

Enemy Raids New Targets In Australia

German Missionaries

Reported Guiding

Nippon Land Troops

By VERN HAUGLAND

MELBOURNE, March 19. —(AP) —

The battle about Australia's north

ern tip broke into new fury today

with Allied air attacks on the Japanese

at several island points, Japa-

nese raids on northern Australia and the Solomon Islands, and sensa

tional reports that German missionaries

are leading an overland Japanese

invasion in New Guinea.

MacArthur Used Speed Boats, Planes

Escape Details Bared;

Seven Days, Nights

Necessary for Flight

CHICAGO, March 19.—(U.P)—The

Chicago Sun said in a copyrighted

dispatch today that a squadron of

roaring speedboats carried Gen.

Douglas MacArthur and his party

from Bataan to a secret meeting

place where airplanes picked them

up five days later for their flight

to Australia.----

Battle Looms For Burma's Oil Fields
Japanese Advance Up Irrawaddy Valley; British Withdraw

Two Freighters Are Torpedoed

Yugoslav, Norse

Ships Are Victims

Off Atlantic Coast

WASHINGTON, March 19.—(AP)—

The Navy announced today that the

Yugoslavian freighter Trepca had

been torpedoed off the Atlantic

Coast and that a large Norwegian

merchant vessel, otherwise unidentified,

had been torpedoed off the

southeast United States coast.----