Current Events April 9, 1942; BATAAN DEFENSES COLLAPSE:

THE BELLINGHAM HERALD

Thursday April 9, 1942

BATAAN FALLS TO JAPS

36,853 TROOPS FACE DEATH, CAPTURE

Gallant But Exhausted Defenders of Peninsula Overwhelmed by Foe

THE LIMA NEWS

LIMA, OHIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1942

BATAAN DEFENSES COLLAPSE

36,853 REMAINING SOLDIERS FACE DEATH OR CAPTURE AS GALLANT ARMY IS OVERCOME

Heroic Counter-Attack Attempted After Flank It

Engulfed, But Troops Are Too Exhausted Physically

This Is Only A Temporary Loss/' Promises Stimson

As He Reveals Efforts To Reinforce"

Philippine Defenders

WASHINGTON, April !> — (AP) — - Secretary of War

Stimson indicated today thait36.853 gallant. American and

Filipino soldiers faced death or capture as the result of the

apparent collapse of the stubborn defense of Bataan peninsula

in the Philippines.

Secretary Stimson said that. Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M.

Wainwright yesterday had 36,853 effectives on Bataan when

the Japanese succeeded in enveloping the east flank of the

defense lines despite a heroic counterattack attempt by physically

exhausted troops,

A War department communique earlier had announced

that Japanese successes indicated "the probability that tho

defense of Bataan had been overcome" and Stimson discussed

the situation at his press conference

TWO BRITISH CRUISERS SUNK IN BENGAL BAY

Dorsetshire, Which Sank Bismark,

Is Victim Of Japanese Bombers

PERIL TO INDIA GROWS

Axis Claims Other Blows As

London Awaits Bitter

Naval Battle

LONDON, April 9—(AP)—Two

British 8-inch-gun cruisers, the

10,000-ton Cornwall and the 9,975-

ton Dorsetshire whose torpedoes

finished off the German battleship

little less than one year ago have been sunk

by Japanese bombers.