Current Events April 2, 1942; SHARP SKIRMISHES ON BATAAN PENINUSLA

West Burma Port Won by Japs; Peril British Rear

                                             The Bakersfield Californian

                                      BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1942

Jap Navy Lands Invasion Army 100 Mi. From India

Hint Port Moresby

Faces Sea Assault

i.'

Report 120,000 Japanese Massed in

Java Waiting Signal for New Offensive

By ROGER D. GREENE

Associated Press War Editor JAPANESE sea-borne troops thrusting closer to India

were reported today to have landed at the chief West

Burma port of Akyab, only 100 miles from the Burma-India

frontier. A Chinese spokesman in Chungking said the Japanese

landed at Akyab under

the protective covering of a

force of cruisers and destroyers.

Akyab's only 350 miles

across the upper Bay of Bengal

from Calcutta.

Bataan Scene of Skirmishes

Jap Around-Clock

Air Raids Go On

(Associated Press Leased Wire)

WASHINGTON, April 2.—

The 'war department reported

sharp skirmishes on

the Philippines' Bataan peninsula

today in the wake of the latest

large scale Japanese attack on

the American-Filipino defenders

there.