CURRENT EVENTS MARCH 27, 1941; Attacks Increase On Minila Bay:

THE RECORD ARGUS

GREENVILLE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1942

JAP FLEET MOVES INTO INDIAN OCEAN

The News-Palladium

BENTON HARBOR, MICH., FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1942

BRAZIL SMASHES HUGE SPY RING

200 Are Arrested, Powerful Radio Stations Seized

Roundup Continues In

Rio De Janeiro, Other

Cities

(By Associated Press)

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 27—

Brazilian officials moved swiftly

today to stamp out the last traces

of a gigantic Nazi spy r i n t;

centering in Rio de Janeiro after

arresting 200 alleged secret agents

and seizing f o u r high-powered

clandestine radio stations.

More arrests were promised----

Japs Shun MacArthur,Turn To India, Burma

Drive Against Australia Is Letting Down

Change In Strategy Of

Attack Indicated In

South Pacific

(By Associated Press)

Japanese movements in the Indian

ocean indicated today that

Japan may temp o r a r i l y have

switched her greatest pressure from

MacArthur-defended Australia to

the Burma-India theater.

Nippon's invasion armies exerted

fierce pressure to knock out Chinese

defenders of Burma—the gateway to

both India and China and units of

Japanese fleet operated in the Indian

ocean.

Japs Increase Aerial Attacks On Manila Bay

Harbor Forts Are Under

Almost Continuous

Bombardment

WASHINGTON, March 27—The

War department reported today

that the Japanese, increasing the

intensity of their aerial bombardment

of Manila bay harbor defenses,

made seven successive attacks

on Corregidor in the last 24

hours, with the island under bombardment

almost continuously from

early morning u n t i l midnight

Thursday.

Philippines President, Cabinet Reach Australia

Quezon Arrives To Aid

In Prosecution Of War

Against Japs

UNITED STATES ARMY HEADQUARTERS.

Australia, March 27—

President Manuel Quezon of the

Philippine commonwealth and the

Filipino war cabinet have arrived in

Australia to rejoin General Douglas

MacArthur, it was announced officially

today.

German Armies Ordered To Hold Russian Bases

Hitler Rushes Plans For

Offensive; May Start

In April

(By Associated Press)

BERN, Switzerland. March 27—

The German army after its steady

winter retreat has been ordered to

hold its present Russian bases at all

costs and safeguard the supply lines

over which new material must be

moved up laboriously for the spring

fight, the Berlin correspondent of

the Neue Zuercher Zeitung reported

today.