Current Events April 17, 1942; SEVERE LOSSES IN PHILLIPPENES

                                                     Oakland Tribune

                            OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1942

Leahy Called Home as Crisis Mounts;16 Generals. 65.000 Lost in Bataan

35 OOO Combat Troops Among Those Missing

This figure included approximately

35,000 combat troops about

5,500 sick and wounded, a number of

supply and other non-combatant

troops and some 25,000 civilians, a

communique reported.

(A Japanese broadcast picked up

by the United Press in San Francisco

reported more than 50,000

prisoners taken in Bataan, including

9000 Americans.)

No reports of casualties in the

last few days of fighting in Bataan

have been received, the communique said.