Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1942, Page 5

Hong Kong Invaders Used Fanning-Out Tactic Effectively Japs Had 22,500 Men Against Only 10,000 For Defenders By the Associated Press. CHUNGKING, China, Jan. 12— At least a division and a half of Japanese troops — perhaps 22,500 men—streamed onto the island of Hong Kong before it fell—but the outnumbered defenders seldom saw more than 10 invaders at & time. Such is the story of well-executed fanning out and converging battle tactics told today by a British sur- vivor of the 17-day siege who es- capeg to the mainland before the crown, colony fell on Christmas Day. Against the invaders, Hong Kong could pit only a garrison of some 10.000 men—British, Canadians, In- dians—which was cut down by ex- tremely heavy 1sses, he said. American civilians on the island | drove trucks loaded with vital sup- plies almost to the front lines dur- ing the fighting, he said, while oth- ers manned first-aid posts. Americans Grab Rifies. But in the last desperate days, he reported, some of the Americans even grabbed rifies and went up into the hills where the front lines were geting thinner. The American casualties, never- theless, were surprisingly few, he raid. Describing the invasion of the is- land, the survivor said the Japanese landed from transports and ad- vanced behind heavy artillery-fire | portection for their final assault.| They split up into groups of not more than 10 men, each group| armed with machine guns, trench | mortars and hand grenades. Slowly they fanned out and sur- rounded their objectives. Then, fol- | lowing a fierce motor sheliing with a hand grenade charge, the Japa- nese suddenly converged on the main Hong Kong defense points from all directions. Isolated Fighting Continued. The weary defenders, their ranks depleted by casualties, laid down their arms at 3 p.m. Christmas Day. | but isolated fighting continued | throughout the island and Japanese hombers kept the air humming until darkness. The invaders had completed alr supremacy, the survivor related. | Hong Kong's air force of six old | planes was destroyed during the first | day of battle. Several of the colony’s few anti-aircraft guns were lost in the scuttling of gunboats and boom ships December 19. The Briton said the Japanese ap- | parently had been aided by fifth columnists. He said the British re- ported that what few prisoners they captured possessed detailed maps showing roads, hills and British posi- | tions. Some had maps showing loca- | %ion and plans of Hong Kong's air raid shelters and tunnels. ‘ Defenders Without Lights. For nearly a week before sur-| render of the colony, its defenders THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1942. BRITAIN S MED]TFRRANEAN STRONGHOLD STANDS OFF ATTACKS — Malta, British naval keystone athwart the Axis supply lines to Africa, has been bombed constantly by enemy forces and five alarms were sounded yesterday, altiough only a few bombs were dropped. In picture at top are seen heavy fortifications of the 122-;quare-mile island. Below is a view looking down into the harbor from the surrounding defenses. —A. P. Photos. Salvage-for-Victory Program To Drop Laggiqg Schools 200 Pounds of Paper Must Be Collected Every Week As the Salvage for Victory paper | were without electric lights because | collection campaign in the District | the Japanese had occupied Taitan reservoir. For water the colony had to rely entirely on the brackish sup- ply from long unusued wells. Parent-Teacher public schools, sponsored jointly by | The Evening Star and the various and Home and Just before the surrénder the earth School Associations, swings into its ghook and flames and smoke shot: skyward as the garrison blew up| its ammunition dumps to prevent them from falling to the enemy. Losses were heavy on both sides| paper and magazines will be dropped | Brookland but particularly for the Japanese, the Briton said, as they paid dearly | for their all-out effort to capture Hong Kong before Chinese armies| moving toward the colony could aoply effective pressure. Civilian casualties were reported light. fifth week, a process of elimination pgyrroughs is under way. Schools which fail to | yield a minimum of 200 pounds of from the program. This is necessary because the | dealer who collects the paper e paying, at the schools, the pnce< usually paid for paper and maga- | zines delivered to his plant. !n: order to make a stop worth his | Paper Collection for Tomorrow || The folloving is the schedule | for collectiin of paper in public | schools in "he Evening Star-P.- T. A. Salvag for Victory program, together wih the five leaders in the area ard their poundage to date: Garrison _ Wheatley ---1.905 -1714 -1,501 -1,459 -1248 | | Bunker Hill Emery - ‘Twining Dunbar Armsirong J. F. Cook Shaw Morse Cleveland Grimke | Taft Junior ‘Woodridge Langdon Noyes Crummell Eckington McKinley Hzh Langley Junor Garnet- | | there.” lying off Tarakan, while our (Amer- ican-made) Glenn Martin bombers also scored two direct hits on two Japanese transport ships lying (Imperial Japanese headquar- ters in Tokio claimed that Mena- do, a town near the northeast tip of the Celebes Islands, had been captured and the island of Tara- kan had surrendered this mom- ing to Japanese forces. Menado, a town of about 12,000 population, is the capital of the Dutch resi- dency of the same name and is situated on the Tondano River.) Dutch Aid Malaya Defense. While fighting alongside thelr( allies in vigorous defense of their | own territory, Netherlands flyers also were reported taking pard in Brit- ain’s defense of Lower Malaya. Indies fighters were said to have | shot down three Japanese raiders attacking Singapore this morning. A single Dutch pliot was credited with two of the victories. Aneta, | Netherlands Indies news agency, Nazis Rush Docfors To Russian Front fo Combat Typhus Anti-Epidemic Center Set Up at Warsaw for ‘Battle Against Lice’ By the Associated Press. BERN, Jan. 12—Germany, com bating an outbreak of typhus fever, recently has rushed hundreds of ad- ditional doctors and nurses to the eastern front and established an anti-epidemic center at Warsaw, the Berlin correspondent of the Swiss newspaper National Zeitung reported today. : A “battle against lice,” the chief carrier of typhus, has resulted. Nazi soldiers, wearing heavy cloth- ing for long periods without wash- ing them, have been beset with lice, the newspaper said. “The abnormal climate and weath- er conditions of the Russian winter not only necessitate care of cloth- ing, food and shelter for the troops but increasing painstaking examina- tion of health conditions,” the dis patch said. “Special measures have been taken against epidemics for which the danger is very great. In barracks and blockhouses there frequently are three to four times as many people crammed together as was the case on the western front. “Army doctors say that toward the end of winter the fever curve usually rises steadily. Consequently, big centers for delousing have been created behind the front, manned by hundreds of doctors, specialists and chemists, the louse being the most dangerous carrier of spotted typhus.” It said a Prof. Kudike, chief of the German Institute of Hygiene and a typhus specialist, headed the Wai saw center. It credited him with developing a method of diagnosing spotted typhus within 10 minutes, whereas the diagnosis formerly took one to two days. Spotted typhus was reported in Swedish dispatches to have broken out some weeks ago in the Baltic states and in Polish areas, resulting in strict quarantines in some zones. Asiatic cholera also had been re- | ported from regions around the Ural | Mountains. | chutists in addition to sea-borne | invasion units. The Dutch command announced that a Netherlands submarine, oper- | ating with the British fleet, had sunk | two Japanese transports in the | Gulf of Siam and reported that a | Dutch seaplane had beaten off a Japanese submarine attack on a Dutch steamer. Davao Believed Base. The base from which the Japa- | nese | Tarakan and Celebes was not dis- | they might have struck from Da- vao. the captured port on the Phil- | ippine Island of Mindanao, miles to the north. | It was assumed the Japanese in- | RED CROSS SUNDAY MARKED—The relief organization’s war fund appeal was called to the attention of many Washington congregations yesterday as churches observed Red Cross Sunday. Pictured is the procession of the various Red Cross activities which featured the evensong service at Washington Cathedral, CLASSES STARTING JANUARY 19 SPANISH FRENCH-GERMAN Berlits Method s evsfisdls ONL! 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Principal Protestant recognition | of the appeal came at Washington Cathedral, where uniformed rep- | resentatives of the various Red | Cross services participated in a pro- | cession during the evensong service. | | Canon Chancellor Theodore O. | | Wedel lauded the Christian ideals | of the organization. | Volunteer collectors were on hand | at many churches to accept con- ; | tributions before or after the serv- BERLITZ MID-YEAR COURSES ARE STARTING ®00 THIS WEEK in @ SPANISH FRENCH-GERMAN BERLITZ SCHOOL The Language Center of Washington Hill Building, 17th & Eye NAtional 0270 Capital Hebrew congyegations were reminded of the effort Sat- | | tention to the District's $750,000 | urday. the messages. Catholic congregations were read vasion was hastened by the need of ' a letter from the Most Rev. Michael striking before the United Nations J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore could capitalize on the estabush-‘-nd Washington, commending Lhei ment of their new supreme com- mand which is to be set up on the‘ island of Java under British Gen. | Sir Archibald P. Wavell. The initial Japanese attacks yes- | terday were viewed here as an at-| | tempt to acquire bases for a major | thrust southward toward the main | Dutch possessipns in the Indies— | the islands of Java and Sumatra | | with their vast resources in oil, tin, tubber, iron and coal. LOS‘I’. APPROXIMATELY 25 TARPAULINS. sizes | 12x18 1t 1o 15x20 ft. mostly brown in | color. some initialed “F. H. M.” Reward | | COCKER SPANTEL. buff. smi with bell: 823 rewird. strazed from acres. Md. WI._1971. m H-w DIAMOND PIN lost ward If retumed io 501 Frantiin call ‘remnl eomnat | Wood- ick rd. Dor.— for return of Pekingese dos. oxt ss-:‘fl To 1600 block P st. 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Washington Harrison | parachuted to safety. ‘tled firmly in bundles to speed up‘ Terrell Garrison | An earlier communique reported | cogic?cl;nn;ol should have difficulty in | Bundy Thomson | bitter fighting off the nonheuwy?"'fd‘yb‘%%omphu—rogup:“m f;‘: s effec m. (Tokio time; S| neciiie he e Tts dew coast of Borneo and on the Island of 3. P. | TES. 4:30 E. S. T) | Joir foad. Saturday Our Coal and Service Must Be Good ! ‘ Chh\ln\" 1091 | GOLD BRACELET 3 sircons. lost i down- | into the western section around noon | GSLD ERACELET. 3 tircons. lost in, down "Left CQMroup’ Asks State Department Shake-up By the Associated Press. size 13. Conduit or_Reser- afternbon. Reward. Celebes to the east, where the Japa- | NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—A group of Americans interested in a “liberal program” for conduct of the war vesterday demanded reorganization of the State Department, charging that it pursued a policy of appease- ment toward undemocratic and pro- Axis governments which culminated in denunciation of the Eree French seizure of St. Pierre and Miquelon. The group. described as “left of center” by its leaders, voted to be- come a part of the Union for De- mocratic Action, formed last spring. and elected as president Dr. Frank Kingdon, chairman of the New York Fight for Freedom Committee to Defend America. Dr. Kingdon said among those at-1 tending the closed meeting were George Backer, publisher of the New York Post; Morris Ernst, counsel for , the American Civil Liberties Union; Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Na- tion; Dr. George Counts, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and Dr. Albert Sprague Coolidge, lecturer on chemistry at Harvard University. | Course in War Gardening STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Jan. 12 (#).—Expecting the “war gardens” | of 1917-3 to reappear, authorities at Pennsylvania State College plan a special two-week course in how to grow your own vegetables. as 40 children brought only the daily papers received in their homes dur- ing a week, the total would be con- siderably in excess of 200 pounds. The task of carrying 8 or 10 papers imposes no great burden on a school pupil. A child who takes 10 average-sized papers to school in this program is, in effect, carrying 120 cardboard boxes im which 30-caliber ammunition is shipped, or 180 dust covers for air- plane motors. Every child who participates is contributing to na- tional defense and is helping to svnd abroad supplies which will helplected. in keeping he enemy away from American shores. As an example of how the public can aid in tne program, a call was received Satirday from an employe of a storag: warehouse near the Garrison Sclool, at Thirteenth and V streets N.V/., offering several hun- dred pounds of paper. The informa- tion was pessed on to Mrs. I Tyler, princ:pal of the school, who immediately arranged for collection | of the pape’. This sort of effort | has brough' the Garrison School | up to 10th jace in total paper col- | Fast-Acting Remedy For Gangrene Reported By the Associated Press NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 12—Sol- diers may be carrying their own medicine into battle soon for prompt | action in treating wounds of war. ! Dr. Guy A. Caldwell, professor of clinical orthopedics at Tulane Uni- versity Medical School, today an- | nounced the successful control, ex- | perimentally, of gas gangrene in compound fractures by the imme- diate application of sulfathiazole. “The treatment could be made; effective in battle by giving every | soldier a vial of sulfathiazole to be applied to wounds as a first aid | dressing before the arrival of first- Dog Marooned On River Ice Saved by Police Rescued yesterday from a piece; of ice floating in the Potomac River, | 8 "“mostly Spitz” mongrel today was | a guest of the District Pound, wait- | ing for somebody to claim him. | Harbor police said a woman whoi had read about the rescue had | called to thank them for rescuing | her dog, but she did not get in touch with the Pound to take him away. Another call came today from a man who planned to visit the Pound to see if the dog was his. It he 1s not claimed in 48 hours, | he will be put yp for sale. | The shaggy-hgired dog, described as an intelligent little animal, ap- parently got out on the ice early in the morning and was marooned there when a docking steamer broke up the ice. He was first spotted by a passenger aboard the Norfolk steamer floating at the foot of Sev- enth street. Harbor police set out in a patrol boat and lowered a small rowboat from which Sergt. Wilbur Sanders and Pvt. Robert L. Decker hauled the dog to safety. The dog, whose back iz a light brown color, finally stopped shiver- ing under a wrapping of blankets before the furnace, A aid units and ambulance crews,” he | said. The key to success lies in applica- tion within an hour, Dr. Caldwell | said. Most of the effectiveness of | the drug is lost if the treatment is | delayed any longer. | road Associ:tion, of which he twice Robert S. Mitchell, 71, | Rail Line Aide, Dies BY the Associaed Press. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 12.—Robert S.| Mitchell, 71 chief special agent of the Missour Pacific Railroad, died | yesterday. Mr. Mitciell was chief special agent of th» Federal Railroad Ad- | ministration during World War I and was 1gimental adjutant 3a Kentucky Volunteers, in the Span- | ish-Americas War. A native »f Bowling Green, Xy.. where he w.s graduated from Ogden College, Mr Mitchell studied law with his fatier and became general counsel of ie Louisville Nashville Railroad. He organzed the Special Service Department of the American Rail- was chairman. He had been the Missouri Pa:ific chief special agent since 1912. GIVE 'EM BOTH BARRELS—Poster desirned by Jean Carlu, noted poster artist, for the Division of In‘ormation, Office for Emergency Management. The poster is in -olor and its original size 1s 30 feet by 40 feet. L - |loss nese effected their landings yester- | day despite a bombardment by Dutch planes which were said to have damaged two transports. The communique gave no details of the fighting on either of the in- vaded islands beyond declaring that the Dutch forces were putting up a stiff fight and acknowledging the of one Dutch seaplane at Tarakan. The Batavia radio declared, how- ever, that it had been anticipated that Tarakan could not hold out long in event of an attack and that | arrangements had been made to destroy installations there if it be- came necessary to abandon the is- land. The Batavia radio continued: “The oil fields (of Tarakan) have | been thoroughly mined and it may be relied upon that preparations have been made with usual Dutch thoroughness to such an extent that | nothing will be left to the enemy,” the broadcast said. Invasion Begun Yesterday, The Japanese invasion launched before dawn yesterday after days of preliminary aerial re- connaissance which forewarned the Dutch. At Tarakan, the Japanese suc- ceeded in landing troops from a fleet of transports under the pro- tection of warships despite a heavy bombardment by Dutch planes. In addition to scoring direct hits on two troopships the Dutch bomb- ers shot down three Japanese planes and dropped heavy bombs close to a warship, a communique said. In the assault on Celibes, ap- parently launched at the same time, the Japanese landed troops at three | places in Minahassa, the long nar- row forthern arm of the island. Here the Japanese employed para- | Red Cross Seeks Funds for War The District Red Cross is ap- pealing for $750,000 as its quota of the American Red Cross ‘War Fund Campaign for $50,- 000,000 to provide relief for American war victims and to carry on rapidly expanding Red Cross services for the armed forces. Today the District fund stands at $101,680.15. Checks should be made pay- able to the American Red Cross and envelopes marked “For the ‘War Pund.” Any bank will accept your contribution and forward it to District Red Cross headquar- ters, 2020 Massachusetts avenue N.W. There are siso booths in leading hotels, department stores and at Union Station. was | “Capture of Kuala Lumpur gave | u«ms pm Japanese forces a tremendous ad- ,,,,fl- vantage in their crushing drive Sta against Singapore as the British de- “CK”ECE three-skin __ Mayflowe, Ho( 1 and fenders who declared they would | reward: - Bo: ox 4R5-L. make a determined stand there were | \'!.gz'*flh;l herru swept out into flat plains south of | gL UREN Faggeent the key city, where they stood little | WIRE-HAIR TERRIER, male, in South chance of even momentarily stem- ghlggl:;‘r;:x h}{,e se 13841. Reward. 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