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Served By Leased Wire Of The ^ _ - associated press 11 ^ fltit * Cf w REMEMBER tassa umuujn ut iHnntttuj fyfru* .ww, - ---d_WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1942 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. |eds Advance |jd Wipe Out HOOP Nazis |ctevka, Central Front joWn, Reported Captur ed After 2-Day Battle POLES DESERT NAZIS p.j|er Throwing Reserves Recklessly Into Fight, Russians Say jggCOW. Mar. 8.— (#!—'The Red „thas captured Sychevka, cen Ljjjont town on the Rzhev-Vyaz gjiroad following a fierce two daVbattle in which virtually all of dlijHH) men of the German 48th were wiped out, frontline ^patches said tonight. STChevka is midway between p,],(V and Vyazma on the 70-mile wrin-south rail line connecting Let\voGerman-held pockets and I’s capture leaves a gap of only 35 ije< to be closed on the heavily nisoied Nazi strongpoints. & The Soviet command said Hitler y jian heavily upon reserves Jr® "Be Deep rear” of his lines Jtis throwing them recklessly atefte lighting west of Moscow in a vain effort to halt the Soviet advance. Totes Desert Many Polish soldiers hastily tafted into the now destroyed 48th ‘vision were declared to have ■;own down their arms and joined a Russians. Premier Joseph Stalin who re ady has devoted considerable at ation to the central front, was ■flared now to be personally plan 4 wider counter-measures along ‘('entire length of the front to Hitler's anticipated spring tee. Or. the front below Leningrad, Soviet communique said, tea'orces tightening a ring of steel about the trapped 16th Ger aiisy at Staraya Russa had tmd two more villages. It said le Germans left 470 dead on the Matter a futile attempt to break at of the town. Liberate Nine Towns Nine other places were liberated, the official announcement said, on the Kalinin front northwest of Mos cow where German losses were placed at hundreds of dead and tape quantities of war material. The Leningrad radio itself said fiat in recent weeks 6.000 Germans were killed and L8 fortified Ger man points destroyed. Battles raged during the night on several sectors of the front, the Russians said in their morning communique. H'est of Moscow the German re inforcements were brought up for two days, the bulletin related, in an attempt to recapture a populated face designated "S”. "The enemy’s desperate counter attatks ended in failure,” the com munique said. “Our artillery and maehinegun tire forced the Ger roans to fall back, abandoning hun dreds of dead on the battlefield.” On the third day the Russians took the offensive and. throwing the ,J,er‘rlal?s bank, occupied two popu P|aces- The Germans left vrfj tilan men and officers filled. iTk up Reserves ne bringing up of German re i c™ents from far back may Ll!gfed in the German high ® “nd c°rrmiunique for Sunday, on Pag,, Threc. Coi. s) Advertise Where ^Types of %ers Shop Daily IIST an,v merchant who lioL P?r'!'l"“lise for the bib or automo s,|p/'a" make additional in,y!,,|vertising daily Adfe MAK-NKWS Want a[kR;Nk"s w a n t b.v the'Pfnil'11,1 •C0„sistent,y People: ,,ll,nvu,g types of 'Wealthy people seeking estat e s .t *c help, real n a.te\ investment op iee l"J'l,es’ boats> serv "wn'lll1"1 bu:(lm« folks , ng living quarters, mael,';10'el ,ars' Pianos, " a hmeiy, bicycles, re Pan services, etc. iiA'. '"I'ome families their search for cars, I hin-ids, furniture, etcf 'eS, c,oth‘"g. jobs, fte'°\vivLPr adult reads e want ads. READ and USE STAR-NEWS Want ads REGULARLY Japanese Commander At Manila Reported To Have Ended Life WASHINGTON, March 8— OP)—General Douglas MacAr thur has received persistent re ports, the War Department ar> nounced today, that the Japa nese army commander in the Philippines has committed sui cide because of the invaders’ failure to overcome the Ameri can - Filipino defenders. The reports “from various sources hitherto regarded as reliable, were detailed in a communique which said Mac Arthur’s artillery on the Bataan fighting front had inflicted heavy losses on an enemy re giment in another surprise at tack. Guns firing from hidden posi tions destroyed 29 of 90 motor ■trucks which were moving an estimated 2,500 enemy troops to the front line north of Abu cay. -V EIGHT MEN LOST ON ARMY PLANE Ship Missing From Langley Field Base Since Thursday LANGLEY FIELD. Va„ March 8.— OP) —Large Army plane from Langley Field has been missing on a routine training flight over North Carolina coast since Thursday, and the Army Public Relations office said today its crew of eight was feared lost. Colonel Edgar O. Hobbs, Langley Field Public Relations officer, said that search for the plane was con tinuing and that there was a possi bility that it had been forced down in an isolated section along North Carolina coast or at sea where its crew might have been picked up by a ship. Crew members and their next of kin were listed as follows by Colo nel Hobbs: Lieutenant Colonel Edward Flan ick, pilot. Next of kin, his wife, Mrs. Helen Flanick, of Hampton, Va. Second Lieutenant James H. Mil ler, co-pilot. Wife, Mrs. Sylvia Mil ler of Langley Field. Second Lieutenant Robert L. Gar rison navigator. Mother, Mrs. Jen nis Barber. 2809 East Nineteenth street, Spokane, Wash. Sergeant Steve J. Chohrach. Fa ther Adam Chohrach, Lewis Run, Penna. Sergeant Arthur L. Becker, sis ter. Mrs. Charles Newman, 12 Con cord St., Goucester, Mass. Sergeant Ellsworth W. Aiken. Wife. Doris P. Aiken, 37 Oneida St., Lynn Mass. Corporal Draper Hoyt. Mother, Mrs. Edna L. Hoyt, 911 Oxford St., Houston, Mass. Private Robert R. McIntyre. Sis ter Mrs. L. Mark Young, Boscawen, N. H. Hobbs did not disclose the type of the missing plane other than to say it was a “large” one. Langley Field has had no word from the plane since it left here at 11:08 a. m. (Eastern War Time) Thursday. The next of kin of crew members have been notified that the plane is missing. 3 -V-— $60,000 Fire Sweeps Charlotte Building CHARLOTTE, N. C., March 8 — Of—a $60,000 fire swept through a brick building occupied by the Mor gan Heater company and the Sut phin Waste Paper company of 601 South Cedar street here early to day. Red Falmes leaping high in the sky attracted more than 1,000 spec tators in the early morning. No one seemed to know how the fire started. A considerable quantity of baled waste paper was destroyed. _3 Gera» Call T A* 1 v JV/apen Riap Plans Are Believed Preparing For Spring Drive Against Turkey SITE BOMB INCIDENT It May Be Used As Basis Of New Wave Of Propaganda LONDON, March 8.— M—1The ex plosion of a bomb near German ambassador Franz Von Papen in Ankara Feb. 24 and subsequent developments have brought into sharp focus an intense and cunning German propaganda campaign to cloud Turkish-Russian relations, in formed sources here said today. With motives and methods still somewhat obscured in the flood of rumors and counter-rumors, it was fairly certain that the usual pre spring German propaganda and diplomatic drive was under full blast, with Turkey as its objective. Topping off the preliminary moves, there came today the re port that Von Papen would leave Ankara for Berlin March 15. No reason was given for the journey, but it could be taken as a subtle suggestion that something was ex pected of Turkey and that Von Papen was going to discuss it with Adolf Hitler. Where Turkey is concerned, the British prefer to maintain a dis creet but hopeful silence. Sources authorized to discuss the subject rest on their reiterated faith in Turkish friendship and assumptions that Turkey would resist if attack ed. Wasted Effort Representatives of the govern ments in exile here, having close contacts with the middle east and the Balkans, believe that much of the. Axis propaganda in Turkey is wasted effort. But, they say, in the event of a German smash to ward the oil of the Caucasus, Tur key could do little to stop it. Ankara and Istanbul reports show clearly that the Germans are trying to build up the Von Papen bomb affair as a cause celebre against Russia—with rumors filter ing through that at least two Rus sians are suspected. The Turks admitted that a police cordon was thrown about the Soviet consulate in Istanbul, because po lice thought two suspects had taken refuge there. This cordon was re moved late Saturday, according to reports here, and it is not known whether the suspects were taken into custody. May Exfrel Aliens Foreign Minister Sukru Saragog lu of Turkey talked to both the Russian and the British ambassa dors Saturday and it is believed that as a result of these conversa tions many aliens will be expelled from Turkey. The fearful brew being stirred by Axis operatives includes the re port that foreign Ministers Joachim Von Ribbentrop of Germany and soon in Sofia with Lieut.-Gen. Hi roshi Oshima, the Japanese ambas sador to Berlin. Reports that Sara coglu might attend were ridiculed by sources close to the Turkish foreign ministry. The German radio has been busy with rumors of growing tension (Continued on Pape Two; Col. 8) -V Destroyer Carmick Is Launched Sunday SEATTLE, March 8. — (/P>— .The U. S. S. Carmick, first of a fleet of 25 destroyers to be built in Seattle, was launched at the Har bor Island yard of the Seattle Tacoma shipbuilding company to day. ___ Mexicans Mobilizing To Fight With U. S. BY WILLAM D. PATTERSON NAVAL BASE, Magdalena Bay. Lower California, March 8.—W Mexican troops and fighting mater ial are streaming corstantly into strategic posts on the west coast guarding the United States left flank and Gen. Lazaro Cardenas, the commander in chief in this vital area, declared tonight that Mexico would make the utmost sacrifice to help beat the Ax.s P°In a reconnaissance flight the length of this peninsula south of California, I saw empathic proof that the Mexican army and navy forces are keeping a careful watch and are ready for any fight that C°Wen armed forces in high spirits are stationed at all P°nits from Ensenada to this important harbor, guarding the mountainous stretches where a Japanese expeditionary force might possibly land, the Navy is patroling closely. The Marines and air force also are active. In the two east-west crossings of lower California, nothing suspi cious was seen nor a single inch of ground where the enemy could take foot. Cardenas, president of Mexico un tli last year, said any Axis attempt to invade the United States through Mexico would meet the resistance of a united nation, ready for any event, and the force of United States arms as well. The power of the “intact Ameri can fleet,” Cardenas added, made the possibility of an invasion re mote but he forecast a hard strug ble in Asia. __ The general declared that the Avila Camacho government was devoting itself sincerely to prevent (Contlnucd on Page Two; Col. 1) Japs Fear Of U. S. Fleet May Decide Their War Strategy NEW YORK, March 8.—</P>— Japan’s future strategy — whether to attack India to the west or Australia to the east— a question which the Japanese may be debating even now in Tokyo, may be dictated by fear of the United States fleet, a broadcast from Berlin suggested today. Quoting the London corre spondent of the Stockholm news paper Dagens Nyheter, the broadcast said “United States attacks against the Marshall and Gilbert islands and the bombing attacks on the Bonin islands re veal the general direction of United States strategy. “The moment that the bulk of the Japanese fleet would sail into the Indian ocean to make large-scale operations against India, the United States fleet would be given the opportunity to attack the Japanese islands themselves.” -V SEVEN ARE KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK Four Soldiers Among Dead In Collision On Frisco Line GRANBY, Mo., March S.— '-T> — Seven persons, including four sol diers, lost their lives and at least 28 others were hurt late yesterday as two Frisco passenger trains col lided head-on near this southwest Missouri town. The steel-rending crash of the eastbound AVill Rogers and a spe cial, carrying 230 recruits from Camp Grant, 111., occurred on a trestle about 200 yards west of the depot. Twenty-two persons, 18 soldiers and four trainmen, suffered injuries requiring hospitalization. A number of others were treated at the Scene for minor injuries. The locomotives remained up right, pinned together in a mass of wreckage on the trestle. Most of the soldiers were victims in a wooden coach, the first of six on the special. At the impact it telescoped the overturned baggage car ahead, crum pled and splintered, pinning the pas sengers inside. Rescue crews, some working with acetylene torches, labored for about five hours to ex tricate the dead and injured. Of the Will Rogers, one baggage car toppled off into a dry creek bed, a passenger coach overturned and another left the rails, but did not turn over. While some Frisco officials said it appeared that a mix-up in signals caused the collision, James Hilton, assistant to the general manager of the road, declined to comment, pend ing an investigation. In a hospital at Neosho, Luther Ary, engineer of the special, told newsmen that he had brought the train to a stop before the collision and that the other train was coming toward him at about 60 miles an hour. He declared he began slowing down some distance from the scene because he received a caution light as he entered the Granby block. Frank Reed, engineer of the Will Rogers, however, told newsmen last night that he had brought his train almost to a stop at the time of the crash. Physicians, nurses and ambulances from surrounding towns were rushed to the scene. A special train was used to carry the injured soldiers to hospitals at Neosho, Mo., and Camp Crowder. A military police guard was established at the scene. The dead: Pvt. William A. Pearson, Route 1. Johnsburg Road, McHenry, 111. Pvt. Albert Gordon, 2649 Spaulding Ave., Chicago. Pvt. Frederick C. Carlson, 2625 N. Whipple St„ Chicago. Pvt. Edmund L. Koster, 6431 Sin* clair Ave., Berwyn, 111. Wallace J. Ferguson, 24, Okla homa City, mail clerk. Herschel Napier, Springfield, Mo., fireman on the Will Rogers. william A. Walden, Chicago, por ter. The injured soldiers, all privates: (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) WEATHER FORECASTS: NORTH CAROLINA — Consider ably colder and windy Monday preceded by rain mixed with snow flurries in mountains in early morning. SOUTH CAROLINA — Consider able colder and windy Monday. (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. in. yesterday): (By I. S. Weather Bureau) Temperature: \ 3:30 a. m. 60; 7:30 a. m. 58: 1:30 p. m. 69; 7:30 p. m. 6b; maximum * —» minimum 56; moan 64; normal 51. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 76; 7:30 a. m. 84; 1 :o0 p. m. 65; 7:30 p. m. 91. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 u m 0.04 inches; total since the first of the month, 2.52 inches. Tides For Today: High Low Wilmington ...- 2H8a. 10:08a. Masonboro Inlet - Sunrise 6:30a; sunset 6:15p; moonrise 12:27a; moonset 11:14a. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville at 8 a. m„ March 8, 11 feet. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3> Japs Prepare For Invasion Of Australia Landing Is Made In New Guinea, 400 Miles From Australian Coast SEIZE AN AIR BASE Maneuver Presumably Is Made To Secure Jump Off Point For Raiders By VERNON A. HAUGLAND. MELBOURNE, Australia, March 8.—UP)—Japanese landing forces in vaded Australian-mandated New Guinea today, only' ■;00 miles from the nearest point on the northern Australian coast, and occupied the island city of Salamaua, the govern ment announced today. The brief statement gave no de tails of the Japanese landing. Roundabout Axis reports mean while broadcast reports that United Nations’ defenders of Java had sur rendered and that The Netherlands East Indies command had asked for cessation of hostilities, but there was no official confirmation from Tokyo or from London). The Japanese apparently struck, in Northeastern New Guinea to gain control of the airdrome at Salamaua as a base for possibly extended air attacks against Australia. Japanese bombers repeatedly have attacked Port Moresby, 150 miles southwest of Salamaua and the southern coastal city which the Australians consider the best defen sive base in New Guinea against the Japanese. Small Settlement Salamaua is a small island settle ment separated from the New Gui nea mainland by a narrow channel. Its airdrome in peacetime is used principally by commercial companies flying in and out of the gold mining regions of New Guinea. Salamaua has a small harbor but Is not con sidered a port except for coastwise shipping'. The town is confined to one main street. The population is small and the entire district of Morobe in northeastern New Guinea has only 2,000 persons. Australia braced for eventual at tack with hurried military prepara tions designed to take the offensive against Japanese thrusts. Maj. Gen. Gordon Bennett, former commander of Australian forces in Malaya who escaped after the fall of Singapore, told his countrymen in a broadcast “we must adopt the of fensive not only with the forces but with the whole people. “The Australian Imperial force beat the Japanese in Malaya every time when the Australians took the offensive and we could do the same here,” he said. No Stores Left Bennett predicted the Japanese would first try to capture air bases in northern and northwestern Aus tralia and then drive southward from airdrome to airdrome. But, he added, the Japanese would not find stores of food and sufficient water in Northern Australia like they had in Malaya. In a similar appeal for action, for mer Prime Minister Robert Gordon (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) -V HART AND WINANT REACH NEW YORK Arrival Of Former Chief Of Asiatic Fleet Is A Surprise NEW YORK, March 8.— W—Ad miral Thomas C. Hart, who resign ed recently as Allied Naval chief of the Southwest Pacific, arrived to day aboard a Pan American clipper which also brought home John G. Winant, U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, for his first visit since the American entrance into the war. Winant’s arrival had been ex pected for several days, but the appearance of Admiral Hart, Com mander - 'in - Chief of the U. S. Asiatic fleet, was unexpected. Neither the Ambassador nor Ad miral Hart, who gave ill health as his reason for resigning his joint Allied command, was listed among the clipper’s 17 passengers from Europe and the Orient. Both Winant and Hart declined to discuss the United Nations’ war effort except in general terms. Well tanned and clad in sports clothing, Admiral Hart said that he was still chief of the Asiatic Fleet “in sort of a legalistic way” but that he was unable to say what his future assignment would be. “I can’t tell you anything that’s good,” he told interviewers. “I’m oh my way to report to the Secre tary of the Navy and I’ve got to tell him first.” He said that he had been travel ing “for twenty days from Java to here. The first six days I was in (Continued on Pape Three; Coi- 1) SURRENDER OF JA VA CLAIMED BY BERLIN, IS DENIED BY DUTCH British Again Bomb Factories At Paris (By The Associated Press) LONDON, March 8.—Smash ing at German industries in the Paris region for the second time in six days, the RAP bombed a motor truck factory at Poissy today, and heavily attacked other industriahttargets in occu pied Northern France. The Air Ministry announced that bombs fell squarely on the Matford plant at Poissy, eight miles west of Paris, where the British said 20 trucks had been turned out daily for the Nazi war machine. Hits also were scored on an adjoining truck yard. Participating pilots said that Frenchmen waved cheery greet ings from many villages they passed over enroute to Poissy. They found the plant easily in the bright sunlight and one rear gunner related that flames and dust from explosions shot higher than the altitude of his plane. Not a German fighter rose to the challenge, the pilots said, until the British had unloaded their bombs and were on their way home. And then only three lU'esserschmitts took ont after them. This daylight attack followed the destructive, two-hour attack upon factories along the Seine in fhe Paris industrial belt last Tuesday night when, the French at Vichy said, 325 persons were killed. It fulfilled the promise by “Colonel Britton,” the mystery voice of the “V-For-Victory Cam paign,” who warned Frenchmen last Friday that “the Royal Airforce is coming again more and more often.” The Colonel coupled that warning with the exhortation to French workers to “keep away from any work that is helping the Germans.” While the RAF raiders were winging toward Poissy other fighter-escorted formations at tacked a power station at Comi nes, near Lille, and railroad yards at Abbeville. The British destroyed two Xazi fighters in the day’s operations and lost three of their own craft, a bomber ard two fighters. In an attack Saturday night, Canadian airmen blasted the German submarine base at St. Xazaire, where huge fires were left burning in the dock area. One plane was lost in this at tack. Fifth Liberty’ Ship Is Launched Here Daniel Morgan Christened By Miss Evelyn Williams Rogers, Syosset, L. I. With the launching of the Daniel Morgan Sunday afternoon, the North Carolina Shipbuilding company sent its fifth Liberty freighter to the fin ishing ways since its establishment here about a year ago. The Daniel Morgan, named for a Revolutionary war hero, was chris tened by Miss Evelyn Williams Rogers, granddaughter of President Roger Williams of the N. C. Ship building company. She is the daughter of Mrs. William Chanler, of Syosset, L. I., whose husband is a corporation lawyer of New York city. A native of New Jersey, Daniel Morgan, for whom the ship is named joined Gates at Hillsborough, N. C., after the battle of Camden and took command of a corps and made brig adier general. Although Cornwallis and Tarleton attempted to trap him in January, 1871, Morgan defeated Tarleton at Cowpens (January 17) and then escaped from Cornwallis into North Carolina. Before coming to North Carolina he campaigned in Canada and had taken part in both battles of Saratoga. Simplicity marked the launching ceremony. Just as the props were taken from under the Daniel Mor gan and she started down the ways Miss Rogers, who awaited uneasily for the' moment, crashed a bottle of champagne against her bow. The fifth Liberty freighter slid serenely down the ways into the waters of the Cape Fear ready for the finishing ways. -V PLANES SAFE TUCSON, Ariz., March 8.—(A>)— Eight Navy planes reported miss ing while enroute to San Diego, Calif., have been accounted for. the Davis-Monthan Army air base reported today. A spokesman said the planes ran out of gasoline, but that their pilots landed them safely. NAZIS ADMIT LOSS OF 1,500,000 MEN Officials Acknowledge Big Casualties On The Eastern Front BERN, March 8.— <.T> —Official Berlin circles acknowledged total losses of 1,500,000 German soldiers in the Russian campaign but de scribed these losses as “absolutely bearable,'’ a Berlin dispatch to the Bern newspaper Der Bund said to day. The figure of 1,500,000 soldiers, killed, wounded or counted missing since last June 22, was credited to German military circles. It was the first time the Germans had given any hint as to their losses on the Eastern front. The military circles quoted by Der Bund placed the average daily German losses between June 22 and Nov. 30, 1941, at 1,000 dead, 200 miss ing and 3,600 wounded. For the 162 days of the war up to Nov. 30, 1941, covered in this estimate, Ger man losses thus would have been 162,000 dead, 32,400 missing and 583,200 wounded. Of. the wounded, it was said, 44.5 per cent are considered to have re cuperated and made ready for serv ice. During the last few- weeks, the dispatch said, numreous classes have been called to service because the high command “not only wants to fill gaps, but to attain superiority in numbers for the spring offen sive.” This offensive, it was said, “could be the determining factor in a vic tory over Russia.” The latest calls to service were said to have included officials from industries and public offices. Women ’Chutists Aid Russian War Effort BY EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, March 8.—(S)—Gun-tot ing Soviet girl parachutists are killing Germans far behind the lines with the same straight-shooting ac curacy as their menfolk, it was disclosed for the first time today. The hecric work of these women soldiers and the war contribution of other wives, mothers, sisters and sweethearts were lauded during to day’s 32nd international woman’s day celebration. The army newspaper Rad Star carried a picture of five girl para chutists, all packing automatic rifles, at their base somewhere near the front. In the background was their plane, ready for a dash to the Nazi rear. From Sevastopol came the news that among the defenders of that Crimean naval base is Nina Onilo va. woman machine - gunner who was credited with killing 500 Ger mans to date. All Russia paid tribute to these frontline and behind-the-front wo men fighters as well as to count less thousands of others fighting Hitler as guerrillas and as factory workers producing the tools of war. And they are doing a magnifi cent job. They are seen everywhere doing man’s work. They drive street cars, smiling beneath shawds. . They wheel buses about the cities . . .They chip ice from the wind swept streets. . .They cook meals at the front. . .They go onto the battlefields loading wounded onto sleds and personally dragging them to safety. . . They treat the wounded in hospit als. . .They doctor animals vital to warfare and farming. . .They are behind dentist and barber chairs. . (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) . A Beleaguered Island, How* ever, Remains Cut Off From Outside World SITUATION CONFUSED Governments Without Any Information Concerning Plight Of Defenders By The Associated Press LONDON, Mar. 8.—Admit tedly hard-pressed and be leaguered, the defenders ol Java were cut off from con tact with the world for th« second day today while Axis agencies broadcast a bewild ering assortment of elusive unofficial reports of their sur render which the Netherlands government here emphatical ly denied. The statement of the Netherlands government ad mitted, however that it was without direct word from ils forces in the Netherlands East Indies. "The Royal Netherlands govern ment emphatically denies stories emanating from enemy sources tc the effect that Japan has been ask ed for armistic tenms,” said the statement issues here through the Netherlands government informa tion bureau. "As the Japanese have at present full control of all channels of com munication with the Netherland? East Indies, it is to be expected that similar stories will be put out by various enemy quarters for the pur pose of creating confusion. Nc credence should be attached to any of them.” The British war office, too, was without word from British troops fighting in Java since 12:55 p. m (7:55 a. m„ Eastern War Time) Sat urday, when the official Java radit a Bandoeng signed off with a fare well message: “Goodbye 'til. bettei times. Long live the queen.” Anxious Dutch, however, relief upon some of the hidden low pow ei radio stations,—long prepared in the 'mountain defenses of the island foi just such a contingency as the pre ,sent _ eventually being heard u Australia with news of any decision to surrender. Roundabout Reports The Axis reports were roundabout and without any express official sanction from Tokyo, and apparentlj were a copy of the German techni que of planting “news” w i t li agencies abroad and then picking it up for rebroadcast on the hom< facilities. They said that the Dutch, back bone of the United Nations resis tanc in the N. E. I., had capitulate* in Java, the last main bulwark ex the defense, and had asked foi terms and cessation of hostilities— on all fronts, as one report had it The Japanese answer was said not yet to have been made known. The British war office said It ha* received no confirmation of th‘ sweeping Axis claims but a com mentator acknowledged that tilt Allied position in the N. E. I. wai "very serious.” There had been no direct wort from Bandoeng, military headquar ters and focus of defense on Java since the official radio went off th< air Saturday morning with: goodhyi ’til better times. Long live th< queen’.” Queen Resolute The 61 ->ear-old queen of l hi Netherlands government-in-exile, >« mained resolute today in a convic tion that both the homeland, how ii German occupation, as well as till rich islands of the southwest Pacific invaded by the Japanese, would eventually be restored to the Nether landus red white and blue-barre( banner. Reuters heard the Tokyo radii quoting a Domei dispatch datelinei Lisbon telling of an ‘‘unconfirmed but reliable” report from the Javs front which said the N. E. I. com mand yesterday formally requested cessation of the battle, one week old in Java. Reuters noted that the rc-pon should be considered “with all re serve.” This dispatch reported that a stafl officer representing the N. E. I command bore a white flag to field headquarters at 11:30 p. m., yester day, (presumably Java time) and presented the request. “The Japanese reply Is not yet re vealed,” it said. The Berlin radio later sent out a similar account, leaving out soma of the intervening qualifications, And the Paris radio later contributed the statement that official word from Tokyo said that the Dutch gov ernment had asked for cessation ol hostilities on all front*. T *
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