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THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, IfM'J ANTIAIRCRAFT GUNNERS GUARD DENSELY POPULATED NEW YORK RUSSIAN DRIVE i AXIS CONVOY AUSTRALIA Urges War Board 'CONTINUED FROM TAGE ONE. CONTINUED rR0MtrAGE ONE. January IS 22 a total of 631 n1 tw0 nrrchantmen plao-s were liheratrd. wrr hit," the cemmuniqua The extreme cold penetrating all Jiil'lfd. Central Kun.pe extended to the A number of near misses wei To Hired Strategy Of Allies In Pacific.

Crimea, but the picture there m5 sfolflIcn otner snips p. me convoy, ohsctire Ith" Bntish said tThe Cerman radio said the Rus-' K'Rhting in the Ag labia triangU s.ans were repulsed in an iW" 'hrd as "oonfused, with to land men in the rear of Nazi tor splitup into a num. troop, encircling Sevastopol. mIl eoluiM. biK Russian Black Sea naval base I The reported 40 tThe Rome radio told of another i1" represent-e 'mf; a 130-mile thrust since the Soviet soitie in the Crimea, where s.

mtfinsive was prung from El Commonwealth Asks Direct Voice In Imperial War Councils Of Britain. il vitiu ilia ivuiaiia iiiiv numi- i. Agheila, at the h-ise of the Gulf of age of the that the great forrps htgoon around the Northeastern Antetat. Cnmean Loast is frozen over, and(M mi, t0 th northeast of A managed to land about 1,100 men. jtma It added, however, tney were taKen Both sides broucht infantrv and prisoners by the t.ermans.

artillery into.) the battle yesterday. inii.tu muiin lit i. nil. mi ai.i hnt thll reports fiom Vichy placed have assumed the same proportions losses on the Russian (ront so far th fiprr.haitlM Tohmlc that Melbourne, Australia, January 26 (Monday) AP) Imperilled Australia delivered a new, plain-po'ten demand on London today for direct voice in Impeiial War Countil as the Japanese, apparently in auadily using strength, expanded footholds on Australian soil January at more than the earlier of tn. More than half this number was campaign saia to nave oeen vicum oi lypnus.

In lj0 mlo. the Air gainst the commonwealth's out- Bumbered defenders. Ths War Cabinet, which had sat pneumonia, frostbite, and ex- News Se rv ice reported the big ivoy was, first sighted in the South- Nelidovo is 5.) miles west of Pln Ioijian Sea Friday morning, lUhev, Soviet encircled nm thern 1 steaming for North Africa, anchor of the shattered Cerman "It as ceaselessly shadowed un-fiont before Moscow, and wns by til afternoon, when the attack be-pussed in the Rus.iinn drive last the Ministry said. "The first week to Kholm. boml i fell cluse to the battleship, TKAXsroitT IS SI NK.

whlUi immediately changed Its Znpndnnva Dvina. 30 miles west rsp A aircraft of Nelidovo, already Is in Soviet lf" 01,1 "rhip for n.i va r. attention, but the result If i mt frnm I Inu itiil Vlilf JtojiM not be observed, I.uki. next important point on thJ. -Al fduk' nval P'lo, fr" if dusk, naval pilots I 4.000 feet and each tail line running to the hor(1rr target.

The liner was In the rear su The midnight "vt- ine wno na i niiiii mis niaun no misiaKe. nounced the sinking of a 5.000-tou Vi German t.ansport in th. Barents Thf, 'truck the hner be-Sea and the Red Air Force 'h through the week end, followed up Its serond appeal to London and Washington, for planet and ships to support its own marshalled lighting power now that invasion has hit Australian shores, with frank communication to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The reflecting the urgency Australia repeatedly has tressed in appeals for help in her elf defense, contained two points. First, a strong request for the immediate formation of an Empire War Council In London and, second, call for an Allied War Council to direct basic strategy In the Pacific.

NEW ZEALAND HEARTENED. At Wellington. New Zealand, Prime Minister Peter Fraser said Sunday that New Zealand had received "heartening response" to pleas to the United States and Britain for aid in the Pacific war. (This was the first official disclosure that New Zealand had joined Australia in such appeals.) uctlon of "ded into the gray painted uper- credited with destn GertnMn nlanea veatenlMV. Till! jtln 1 losses were placed at plane; i.

IVcpenlng wedge, were rr.rlell",'r,.t namM th' Whrn bombers at- southward to Torori-u, V'B 'h" f.fty-mll. line descni-d as shadow lnK pilot again spinal column of the entire broad. "IK. i r7rrn front torpedoes striking the United States soldier of an antiaircraft unit, left, swing the muzzle of one of its guns across the sky a few hundred feet from a densly populated section in the New York area. Upper right, a height finder, for gun in rear, in operation in the same area.

Millions of city dwellers live within a few miles of the businesslike antiaircraft unit camp in the New York area, lower right. The men call their position "Camp Oxide" because of the proximity to industrial oxide refuse. liner. Thus the Russians were pressing! a vast, double pincers Aimed all CONVOY IS HALTED. "Shortly afterward clouds of smoke were seen coming from the liner and by the time shadowing aircraft Irft, the whole convoy ap- flanking the Germans south of Leningrad and in the Smolensk area (The British radio oroadraat a "Australia position regarningiat the frirpfg of Austraiu armies pushing toward drome, dropping bombs, but raua-jforce and defense positions set tip mgner strategic.

direction or me i nall not fuv un(ooed WAR DECLARED Ihe danger of Japan seeking a junction with Hitler Is real, and the Allied bastion of Singapore. Ing only "slight damnge, a com-A heavy force of Ro.il Air horre munlqiie said. A tentative report war is clear and decisive," declared It Is, however, another advance Stockholm report srylng Adolf peared to have come to a stand- Hitler already had nulled stakes mi. in announcement added. surh an eventuality Is wholly pos slhle, and must be averted." The British called the flghti Ightiryr aid all seven bombers were shot down, along with three fighters.

There were no British losses. In the second raid the Japanese attempted bombers raided capital of Japanese-occupied Thailand, inflicting widespread damage In a strong aerial while by the TKiminlon Prime Minister, John Curtin, at Perth, West Australia. "We make it plain that we claim representation in an Imperial War Cabinet so that Australia's voice Chungking sources, commenting confused," hut the German aist ment In her stepping-stone progress Into broadening war zones In the Pacific, carrying her closer to sea lanes connecting Australia with Malaya and America, closer CONTINUED FROM FAOE ONE. on PiTmler lliclekl Tojo's recent Italian radios blared out tales of great Axis triumphs for ths forces to machine gun the airdrome, "hut "concHiatory references to the Kong Chinese forces recaptured: nd Chinese troops wue reported Chungking Government, said "It engaged in a great mass niovtment were dispersed by our fighters be- nd counsel may he heard directly to continental Australia itself Tamshui, east of the Canton-Kow nppettrs Japan Is not so confident In China'! oulhwestern Province tors tney could mnici damage or We also claim that a Pacific, wlder the Netherlands ....1 i ls4 Aatnhtleha1 should be established of fttial victory of Yunnan and along the Thailand the communique said East Indies, and till further from and moved his personal headquarters from Smolensk to Minsk, mils further west -nd near the old Kussien-l'olish border.) Fresh reserves brought in from east of the UiaVs were reported thrown into the 'Eastern Front battle by Marshal Klementl Voroi hilov, who is direcMng the carefully planed Soviet offensive worked out by Premier Joseph Stalin. Voroshllov 'nns been in charge of these operatipn since he ortianir.cd the successful defense of Iningrad council whereon countries particularly concerned with the Pacl'ic may collaborate in the most effectual way her home bases.

At time when the United Na ciki uenerai JM'win. Jtommel, The conflict shifted a little to tha east and northeast of Agcdabia, tha British communique showed, pre cipltating sharp fighting southwest of Sannau, 42 miles east of Age duhia. The British said "confused fight adding that neither side lost any planes. Axis Broadcasts Claims tlona are making a Says Jap Bag Is 1 08 Planes In Malaya, 50 In Burma In dealing with war problems in, tMi tn wnM this theiter. enemy inroads growing deeper Reaesuring word previously hadjn the Dufch and the 01 Force Near Rangoon come from London that aid was loon Railway, killing more than 400 Japanese, a headquarters communique announced.

In Western Hupeh Province, In North Central China, Chinese forces are attacking the Japanese west of Slangyang and northeast of Ichang, while In Southern Hunan Province, In Central China, the Chinese were on the offensive north of Slnyang. Swooping In low, the Kunming advices said, yesterday's raideis Berlin, January 25 (Official ing took place" yesterday over a considerable area south and southeast of Antclat, the northern apex of the triangle of sandy wasteland. and then went behind the Urals to frontier. The British announced a withdrawal before J.ipencse pushing westward along the Burmese Const on the Gulf of Martnban, hoA-ever, taking up new positions "somewhere in tho Mjiilmcin sector' 100 miles east of Rungonn. Military commentators cast no on the fats of Moulmelr.

itself. Positions further back were taken up without enemy interferences, army advices said. "In the initial stages," they added, "the enemy attacked and 1 Tckvo. January 25-( Radiocast P' AI) T', organi.e tl.e new army, The Marshals forces were declared now to be within some H5 British are struggling to block the approaches to Singapore, the new Japanese thrust, mean that allied strength must be spread thinner or some area MIST AID MALAYA. An Australian Information re-partment spokesman called Japan's Recorded by UP, New YorkThcJ broadcast a Tokyo sn-army section of imperial headquar- nouneement tonight that all Brit-ters today said (iOO enemy troo aircraft In Malava at thn nut miles of cutting all communications bet ween k1bs Get man armies of the renter rind south and those on the had been "annihilated" in the two-day drive that resulted In the culture of Tavoy, on the lower Burisia attacks In the New Ouinea i eel were unmolested by Japinese being studied for the dominion, whose own fighting men are writing valiant chapters In North Africa and Malaya, but still Japanese transports were unloading more and more men in the Island groups flanking Australia and the commonwealth was facing the grim threat that Japan's widening war would spread to Its own continental benchers.

MILITIA SEES FIRST ACTION. Churchill Informed Curtin by cable that he was "fully considering the Australian requests." (In London, a spokesman for front. With a surprise attack In the Donrta Basin, Hoillhern Russian Antelat Is 20 miles northwest of Sauiu.il and considerably inland from the Gulf or Mil to at the base of the Libyan hump. The direction of "the battle seemed to Indicate that Rommel was pointing the spearheads of tha teeently reinforced Axis Army toward Mekill, In an attempt to bypass Bengasi and other Mediterranean coaslal points, made hazardous by Ihe big and accurals guns of the Royal Navy, British warplanes continued to harass the Axis drive, "successful a blow not only to Australia but to plsnes and all carried out their all allied cooperation, the Mel- missions snd returned safely to I 1 I hreak of war have been hut it acknowledged "a large number of nddillonnl planes seems to have arrived at Singapore between January 1V23" The announcement, attributed to Japanese Imperial, Headquarters, said these reinforcements rnme from India and the Putrh Fast armle( have advanced 12 miles in nnurne ranio sain. their bases.

were mown down hut 175 miles southeast of Mul the advance by sheer weight ofjmein. The Japanese took 151 iiris-numhers. oners, It added, two mountain Wins, "Our troops maintained their pn- machine guns, 10 motorraraVand altlons and Inflicted such punish- much other booty, ment on the enemy that we were (The Berlin radio, heard ln( Iin-enahled to withdraw by night to don, broadcast a Tokyo dUpateh 20 hours and recaptured 13 villager, frnnl-lliiB dispatches said. TROOP TRAINS DESTROYED. '(The German radio broadcast a Its broadcast, heard In New York by the National Broadcasting Company, said the spokesman observed, however, that It might be a sign of weakness In the long view since in the large raiding force were some planes of a new bomber type and fighteis presumably manned Indies.

DNII dispatch rlalmirw that a fresh It claimed destruction of 55 bomb Churchill said the British and Japan, not having won either ers In the air and 53 bombers on Soviet landing altempt was repulsed last Thursday night on the south coast of tho Crimea. This Australian Governments were In I Manila Bay or Singapore, apparent- the ground In Southern Malava prearranged positions unimpeded, asserting Japanese troops were only Demolitions were most success '37 miles from Rangoon, ful," The army section said 50 Chinese NEAR INDOCHINA ALSO. had been shot down or de- A communique issued by lhe Jnu-Brilish General Hcaduiiarler. 1T. strong forntions of constant contact but he declined ly was "forcibly making great and 50 planes, types unspecified, In; account said German shots bat- ly atiacKing tanks and motor transports between Agedabia and Antelat.

The British said several vehicles were destroyed and fires started. The destruction of five tanks Friday, in the opening stages nf the battle of the triangle, was terlcs forced the Soviet transport Utii nm. Singapore Itself was reported the target of 28 air raids so far. Japanese warplanes bombed by the members of the American volunteer group who played a conspicuous part in covering the bombers on the Thursday raid. On Thursday Chinese bombers dropped 20 tons of explosives on the base.

VICHY PROTEST DEFIED. That the Chinese returned to the haste, knowing that she had to be fast in order to have any chance of succeeding at all." The spokesman stressed that the united nations, including Australia, must share In Malaya's defense and that Allied forces probably will have to drive the Invaders not only reported. BAGS SIXTH JAP PLANE. Mengtsz, In Southeast, Yunnan Province near French In'So-China. (The Berlin radio, heard In London, broadcast a Tok dispatch asserting Japanese rr.lders over ships to turn back.) A supplement to the midnight communique reported that Soviet planes yesterday destroyed five German troop trains, smashed three Infantry battalions and a cavalry squadron, and destroyed 20 truck- today said of the Chinese reinforcements in Burma that they had been pouring into Burma for the last few weeks.

From hers these troops could push into either Indo-Chlna, also Japanese-occupied, or into Thailand and pound at the rear of the Japanese forces working southward from there toward San Diego, January 25 MAIN FORCES JOLV. Using El Aghelia, 90 miles to tha out of Austriasia but also from Rangoon Sunday sh'it down 10 planes belonging to thn Chinese air to say whether the Prime Minister had replied to Curtln's request for formation of an empire-wide war cabinet. If Churchill had answered, he added, his message would not be disclosed Immediately In London. The Japanese, meanwhile, were en at least three islands In the Eismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands, northeast of the big, half Dutch-half British Island of New Guinea. War Minister Francis Forde announced that Australian militia, In action against an alien invader for the first, time In Australia's 154- loads of troops and ammunition southwest of Agedabia, as his springboard, Rommel opened his counterattack three days ago.

Tha Australia Itself. "Shortly and bluntly," declared and four tanks. attack on that port yesterday Indicated open defiance in Chungking of Frenrh wrath over the first attack. Vichy announced only yes forre. (The only Chinese planes reported Forde In an appeal for Allied help British first spoke of the drive as in Rurma have been those of the In the rarific, "it is Japan or us reconnaissance against which their Berlin, January 25 (Official Broadcast Recorded hy API The Singapore.

Chinese dispatches received here telling of mass movements of Chinese troops In Yunnan and (AP) Edmund F. Overend, former United States Marine Corps flyer now fighting with an Amei-ican volunteer squadron in the Far Fast, cable friends today he had shot down three more Japanese bombers Friday, bringing his total U- six "Shot down three bom heirs over Rangoon," the cable read. "Came through O. Previously he downed three bombers In a single action on Christmas Day. American volunteer croup.

terday that Its Minister In the Chinese capital had been Instructed forward elements withdrew. It appeared certain tonight, how Red Army, strongly supported by "Australia does not believe that the insolent immensity of Japan's design Is everywhere appreciated as kenly or in as true perspective as to protest a recent aerial attack on (In another broadcast heard In New York, Rerllni said Japanese planes over Ranoon shot down ever, the main British forces had a Tonkin Province airdrome, pre along the xnailann frontier atig Rested that the men of Generalis sumably Hanoi, by planes coming simn Chiang Kai-Shek might BBlurnB It is in the commonwealth. "Nor do we believe that its funda tanks and aviation, made fierce and repented assaults in the Kharkov region In the Donets Basin hut all were repulsed, the high command declared today. German dispatches also reported the direction of China. ear history, and supporting units ,4,, M.

iu.i. nil nnn a in uirjiiiruimm. rent r.iH. on H.nnl nf (Berlin asserted two enemy homh- mental relation in the Axis grand Of the Australian Imperial forces were fighting 'magnificently" on injn e-hi. dropped several bombs on Bang strategy is perceived as sharply as YANK FLIERS WIN, 190-5 1 Hon naitliuny i oevrim ftahaul Peninsula, on the Island necessary, Cf New Britain.

TWO-DAY BAG similar assaults In the Valdai hills south of but said these likewise were thrown back in fierce "victims" were reported, but damage was described as "lnslgnlfi csnt." cold. sault opening up a second big front for the Japanese land forces in this corner of the continent. The movements could, of course, Involve only the Chinese forces reinforcing Burma, but in any case they were aimed at striking at the WOUNDED NEGRO (It said one I bomber was downed by antiaircraft! gunners and another Joined battle with the legions of Rommel. A military commentator said ths battle was believed continuing in a large area of a triangle formed by Agedabia, Antelat and Saunnu, with sides roughly 50, 40 and 20 miles. The commentator said ha had no reports of British or Axis losses beyond what was stated In the Cairo communique, and added: "It Is reasonable to assume that German claims are about as trua as they proved to be in the past" The victory-starved headquarters of Adolf Hitler on the frozen plains of Russia issued a special announcement saying the Axis North African armies had smashed strong CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE probably waeJ unable to reach Its Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung declared that defensive fighting must continue on the eastern front for a long time In view of the "demon weather," and said the fighting base.) Indicate that the two-day old battle CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

(The SwIsH radio, heard In New In the waters between Borneo and York by U.iited Press, said today Celebes still was continuing. The was calling for alt the courage tenacity and readiness for saciifice of the German soldier. The Australians evidently had given up the 'city of Rabaul.l the Island's capital and chief port, in order to conserve their strength. Forde said land and air forces had been pitted against the Japanese in a heavy battle raging since Friday among the hills back of the City, but that troops had not been asked to make a stand on exposed beaches because of enemy warships within the harbor. One Australian war plane was missing.

JAM LANDINGS REPORTED. The defenders now have pushed their line across the western end of the peninsula but there Is every Indication that the Japanese are being constantly reinforced. One Chungking, January 5 (AP) American volunteer fliers fighting with the Chinese have shot down 190 Jspanese planes against the loss of only five of their own craft in clashes up to Saturday, the Central Chinese News Agency reported tonight in a Kunming dispatch. The agency said this figure did not take Into account considerable numbers of Japanese craft destroyed on the ground. The Americans piled up their impressive score in operations over Burma, Thailand, and Japanese-dominated French Indo-China.

that the French Government re-jf list official mention of cruisers ceived a report that RO persons were participation In the sea battle Indi-kllled ar1 30 wounded In Thurs-icated also that It may be conlinu-day's ra ji on Hanoi. The attack ng In greater force, was irle by 10 planes which The five vessels reported to have In North Africa, the high com mand declared, "the attack of Ger Japenese from the rear. In addition, unofficial information was received that the air force In Burma is being reinforced continually by newer models of fighters and bombers. The A F. In Its smashing attack on Bangkok, made Saturday night, dropped 500-pound demolition bombs on a powerhouse snd on other targets, causing damage reported widespread.

Flying at a low level In the far of strong antiaircraft fire, the man and Italian units resulted in dropped R0 bombs, the broadcast been sunk hy units of tho Asiatic complete success. watched th burning of the body. Wallact tild this story of events lesding up to the mob actir.r,: About 1:30 a. m. a man ertered the Sturgeon home occupied by Mrs.

Stuigeon snd her sister-in-law, Mrs. John Sturgeon, also th wife of a soldier. Mrs. John Sturgeon escaped, hut the intruder grabbed Mrs. Dillsrd Sturgeon and stabbed her, Inflicting a deep wound In her left side.

a chase across the town, "Northeast of Agedsbia strong fleet commanded hy Admiral Thorn said, B'dlng that the French Gov British forces northeast of Agedabia and driven them back with ernmerft representative In Chungking bad protested the raid. as C. Hart brought to 37 the number nf enemy vessels sunk by the United States Navy since the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor December 7. In addition to the 37 sunk by the Rritlsh forces were defeated with heavy losses and thrown back to the northeast. "Many prisoners fell Into our hands, 143 tanks and 0 guns were captured or destroyed." Malta was said again to have been bombed with heavy missiles.

dispatch said 17 Japanese vessels Chinese Urge Forestalling 01 Hitler-Jap Junction bombers skimmed a mere thousand feet above their objectives, machine eunnlne searchlight and sun navy the army has accounted for 11, making 48 Japanese ships in all A Berlin official broadcast of a batteries in this second major at- tack on the Thailand capital this Officer Perrigan captured Wright, disarms him of a knife and put hir" in the back seat of his motor car. The officer, apparently having obtained a driver for the machine joined his captive in the back seat had been observed and that the Australian defending force evidently was overwhelmingly outnumbered. The sir force raided Rabaul harbor, but low clouds hampered the bombers' aim and still greater dif heavy losses. The Germans said they had caught the British by surprise and had captured a larga number of prisoners. The Nazis said they had captured or destroyed 143 tanks and 80 guns.

Rome echoed the Berlin announcement, but added tha booty included several American made twenty-eight-ton tanks, certain of which are ready to turn against the British. The Italians said Axis planes were battering the British forces and airfields. An Italian convoy, carrying reinforcements to Rommel, was said to have shot down four planes in the Central definitely sunk by United States forces. As in the action announced yes Chungking, January 28 (Monday) ((Radiocast Recorded by UP, San Francisco) Tha Central Daily communique issued in Hanoi, acknowledging that Indo-Chinese territory had been revisited by Chinese air raiders, also disclosed that some casualties had been inflicted New York, January 25 (AP) The British radio broadcast today a Stockholm report that Adolf Hitler tmA hi nfmnna! head- month. TWO SHIPS SINK.

(Berlin announced Thailand had declared war on the United States terday, this latest report on the bat- Ifews today urgently warned the tie being raged on the route from Wright pulled another knife from ficulty was experienced in observ in the first attack an4 Great Britain as of noon Sun Cnited Nations that "the danger Davao, Japanese navRl base In the w.hinH th. nn.sian front Japan seeking a Junction with Philippines, to Bali In the Dutch l'To Minsk Ing results of the attack. Air Mln-ihis shoe and began hacking at the Ister A. 8. Drakeford, nevertheless, 'officer's face, severing an artery While there was no specific iden- day, giving as the reason that the tification of the fighter pilots lnC0Untry had been attacked by the per real," and recommended, East Indies, told of successful vie-, mi) furfnfr WMt CB3 rec.

aid bombs fell in the target area under his tongue. In the struggle and some hits were observed. Perrigan drew his revolver and the Saturday raid, or ot meir pan two larger powers "30 times bv reorgani.nun ui nir mm crded the BBC broadcast. The Moscow radio said tonight In the attack. Reuters said It hadiand 36 times on land." Thailand the Southwestern Pacific to fore- states fleet.

Besides the reinforcements Jap shot Wright three times. Mediterranean. Three were deadly been announced officially in cnung- forces were reported to have fol- that a conference of Rumanian1 The Southeast Missouri office of klng thst American volunteer flier! lowed up the declaration with an stall such a grave military menace. The announcement yesterday said Under the title, 'There Is Onlyjthat destroyers received only slight One War," the Centtal Dally News damage and the action was aceom-sald In part: jplishedwlth only four men wounded i v.j -jtorpedo carriers, the Italians said, pr soners In Russia had adopted a Malta, British bastion in ths Rumanian sol tha immediate advance into Butmece In China so far definitely had resolution urging the 8tate Highway Patrol concentrated 1 of its 22 patrolmen here tonight. bagged 45 Japanese planes in the sir and had destroyed another 3C -one seriously.

The ability of the Allies to se Mediterranean waist, was bombed again, and the Royal Air Forra struck bark at Sicily. They were patrolling the Negro territory, "When Japan declared war jon Great Britain and the Unifed States," said the German radiio." dlers to lay down their arms and overthrow the regime of General Ion Antonescu. The broadcast was heard by CB3. action In the western nulakiHa On the gt'OUnd. HONORS ARE WON thi.

r.tv of 8.000. Annroxim.tll That French Indo-Chlna'i part assort Clothes ind tdvanctd Sprint Stylii is putting ashore at Rabaul. landings also were made at Kicta. on the eastern shore of Bougainville Island, the closest of the Solomon group to New Britain. Japanese aho landed Friday morning at Kavieng.

on New Ireland, east Of New Britain. Other landings probably were Made In this area, army reports said, either in unsettled districts or Ui regions where communications were destroyed. Acute communications difficul In Japan's plans Is clviding thei Thailand deemed it necessary to loyalties of its Inhabitants was ln-1 conclude a military agreement with Individually Tailored lar Mta and Wamti By Xavier Students In Intercol dlrated hy another official German i Japan, but Thailand never attrked London, January 25-(AP)-The temperature plunged to 18 degrees low iero Fahrenheit in Stockholm cure final victory Is not to be doubted, of course, but we have two weaknesses. "Firstly, the Allied forces In the Philippines snd Malsya are outnumbered and need reinforcements and reorganization before they can undertake offensive operations. "Secondly, the occupation of Hainan Island called by the Japanese tha key to the Pacific has given legiate Writing Contest.

one-fourth of the population is Negro. Amerirsn Legion members guarded streets leading Into the area. Negroes were ordered to remain indoors. White persons were prevented from entering. broadcast which said that Admiral 'or, countries.

Jean Decoux. Hich Commissioner (The announcement did not men- Do of the colony, had reiterated his tlon that Thailand In this m.litary Two Xavier University under-j X(ynyi the loW(gt in jog Reu-graduates won sixth and seventh trrn reportr(i from the Swedish places in an intercollegiate writing' xh, Bfnl(lul lowest read- "flMdH lovalty to Ma-shal Petaln agreement opened her borders to Japan's armies and her trillitary airports to Japan's fliers, snd that At dusk there was no apparent contest open to students In Jesuit jng on record waa degrees below In a broadcast to French colonies in the Pacific, it said, Decoux excoriated foreign efforts to range ties continued to obscure the situation throughout the island war the 10W.7TU indication of further trouble. colleges and universities of the Mis zero In January, 1814. tha enemy mastery of the South China Sea, which is now safe for its the country promptly became a major base of Japan's operations The Sikeston Red Cross collected 1150 so Sergeant Dillard Sturgeon. Frenchmen agslnst each other and ater, most Information being ob tained by aerial reconnaissance.

CAPITAL CITY EVACUATED. (tha enemy's) shipping. emphasized that he was her aggression against; the Al stationed in California, might re sourl and Chicago provinces, contest judges In St. Louis informed Rev. John J.

Benson, dean of the Liberal Arts College, yesterday. Lawrence I Splaln, 57C9 Doerger Lane, Cincinnati, a Junior, won "Japanese forces cannot be or rapidly cut off from their turn to his wire. Forde said the latest word dis mm A city truck removed the Negro's supply." closed that Japanese marines at body alter it had been in the street The newspaper recommended i.csp. Rangoon had two air rnids, both Ineffective, Saturdsy ami a false alarm today. It was announced two) merchant ships had been sunk by enemy action in the Bay of Benral and that kavieng had wrecked all buildings for veral hours.

(D-ReoriranizaUon of the forces; ixtn place. Robert E. Kaske, 4216 in the town wnicn we Australians Xn to fulfill his task of preserving French authority In Frances Pacific Empire. He warned De Gaul-lists that Pitain would know how to deal with them when, one day, France's "lost sons" knock at their country's door. CHINESE NEAR THAILAND.

operating in the Southwestern Pa-1 St. Martin Street, Cheviot, was cifie. to be undertaken hv the awarded seventh. thorough investigation" and Indict had not previously demolished, presumably before withdrawing Just in advance of tha invaders' ar ment of every person who had "any survivors had been larMed in Bur Try InnerrlMn Tferhal Tjrtlfivr the Best time TOUf ITStem thorlties nearest the scene. Students from sll the colleges (2) Development of guerrilla nd universities conducted hy the part, great or small, in this mob ma.

The sea attacks 're re believed made by a Japaneer submarine. rival. violence" was ordered tonieht hv warfare in the Pacific by small ves-i order in the two provinces com- Lae, the new capital of Australian Governor Forrest C. Donnell In Jef- Rangoon, Burma, Janusry 25 There as no estimate of casualties sels and submarines. peted in the contest, Father Benson New Guinea, wnicn was oive f.rson City.

(AP) The Urited Ntiors forces One leport said the vessels were "Hitler Is now seriously nrensr- said. Tapers Iwntten by the stu bombed ana machine gunnea neav- Donnell said he fully concurred la-hed hard by air agiir.st Japa-: carrying hundreds of civilian refu- ing for some new action, snd the dents were judged by local faculty needs help. You will be surprised bow tborombly icptnltbU CONTAIN! irnil action it this pleasant-tasting blend of nature's 40 AVEMGI DOSil herbs, Innerdean Herbal Laxative. No brewing-no mixing-no bother. A little Inncrdein on the tongue-a sip of water-that'j all! ON SALE AT ALL DOW DRUG CO.

AND OTHER LEADING DRUG STORES INNEDCLEAtl HERBAL, LAXATIVE liy irom tne air inursaay, saio jn a suggestion hy Scott County i nese position" In Southeast Asia ges to India. Allies ought to take the initiative in hoards. Then the three Pest in earn the Pacific before his preparations case were forwarded to St. Louis to have been evacu-tea. jt is on me Prosecutor Blanton that a grand, over the week end and were re-j In the first raid on Ran-Islsnds northeastern coast Jury be called to investigate theinnrted msii-c for a major land goon between 20 ind 30 fichtets ci poneo masis wicrn i nu iifciiiria have been completed." It said.

iwheie another Jury chose the nave ncen compieieq, 11 said. iwneie assault at ths resr ol Kipuonese1 and seven bombersattacked an air' "The tnemjf should, ba brought lolwinners, Japans whola flan in nibbling, case..