CURRENT EVENTS MARCH 5, 1942

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Oakland Tribune

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1942

'Fight On, Help On Way' Java Is Told;

M'Arthur Drowns Thousands of Japs

Allies May Attack From Other

Side at Any Moment Now/

Van Mook Exhorts Army

BANDOENG, Java, Friday, March 6.—(IP)—Holding out

the hope that "at any moment the attack on the enemy will

be launched from another side" by the Allies, the Lieutenant

Governor General of the Dutch East Indies urged Java's

inhabitants to continue their stout resistance to the Japanese,

in an address last night before the People's Council.----

Explosions Add to Heavy

Toll on Sunk Transports

Loaded With Enemy Troops

WASHINGTON, March 5.—(7P)—General Douglas Mac-

Arthur reported to the War Department today his belief that

thousands of Japanese soldiers were drowned in the surprise

raid of his little air force on Subic Bay, north of the Bataan

Peninsula fighting front in the Philippines.----

Maps Show japs Live in Strategy Areas

County Utilities,

Military Sites Are

Practically Surrounded

The "startling coincidence" that

Japanese live virtually next door to

every important airfield, military

camp, naval base, railroad center,

•war industry and public utility in

Alameda County as well as in all

of California, was revealed today

by Assistant State Attorney General

Warren Olney.----

Burma Line is Broken

Japanese Streaming

Across Sittang to

Strike at Rangoon

By DANIEL DE LUCE

MANDALAY, Burma, March 5 —

(AP)—Japanese i n v a s i o n forces

streamed across the lower reaches

of the Sittang River and headed

down the west coast of the Gulf of

Martaban today, putting behind

them the last natural barrier on

the route to Rangoon.