The Port Arthur News
PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1942.
JAVA'S COLLAPSE BELIEVED AT HAND
4 SOLDIERS
VICTIMS IN MISSOURI
Signal Mixup Causes
Tragic Collision On
Frisco Line
GRANBY, Mo., March 7
(AP")—Six persons were killed
and at Ieastx45 injured tonight
in a head-on collision of two
St. Louis and San Francisco
railroad (Frisco) trains on a trestle
near the Granby depot.
Too Few, Too Late'... Old Story Also Holds Good In East Indies
Lack Of Air, Sea And Man Power Blamed
' By Dutch Writer For Java Tragedy;
Isle's Fleet Practically Wiped Out
(Following is the text of the last dispatch received by the" New York
office of Aneta-Netherlands Indie news agency from its Bandeong
correspondent. Shortly after this story., reviewing the last phases of the
battle in western Java, was received, communications between the
invaded island and the outside world were severed.)
By J. B. Bouwer .
(Staff Writer, Aneta, Dutch News Agency)
BANDEONG. Java, March 7—(10 a. m./Java time. !0:30
p m Friday, EWT) —(INS)—The situation on Java, at least
on the western part of the island, has now become critical.
The Japanese—again attacking with great superiority—have
Broken through the defenses on the north side of the well known
volcano of Tangkuban Prahu. M^v,.r Th;S happened Friday, after, desperate last .stand from Netherlands Indies troops which were not only numerically far inferior•but
ver moreover harassed by the Japanese air force against which
Dutchmen can no longer put up sufficient resistance.
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