CURRENTEVENTS FEBRUARY 27, 1942

THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE

Highpoint N. C. Tuesday February 27, 1942

ALLIES POUND NEW INVASION FLEET

JAPS DROP BOMBS ON INDIAN TERRITORY

Japanese Armada Off

Coast Of Sumatra Is

Raided By Warplanes

Thousands of Soldiers from United States, Britain and Australia Are

In Java to Help Dutch Defend Island Stronghold; Tokyo Claims Naval

Base on Semangka Bay Has Been Occupied

By D. WITT HANCOCK

BANDOENG, N.E.I., Feb. 27.—(AP)—Allied bombing planes, already successful in

smashing one Japanese invasion fleet off Javas eastern end, launched an attack today

against a newly-mustered enemy armada off the coast of Sumatra west of this island fortress.----

MacArthur Holds New Position

WASHINGTON, Fob. 27. — (AP} —

Fighting between light forces on

both sides is continuing, on the

Bataan front in the Philippines,

the war department reported to----

Soviet Army Opens Fierce New Attacks

Red Cavalrymen Within 72

Miles of Latvian Border; Fight Rages" on Wide Front

(By The Associated Press)

Russia's a r m i e s opened

fierce new attacks at both

ends of the 1,200-mile battlefront

today, lashing out from

long - besieged Leningrad in

the north and on the Crimea

Peninsula in the south.

Ship In Flames Off Shore Of New Jersey

BELMAR, N. J., Feb. 27.—(/P)—

The Belmar police reported sighting'

a ship afire about five miles

offshore early today, and coast

guard vessels From both New York

and New Jersey stations put out

to the rescue.