Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-02-21 | Page 2 | Losses Darken Allies' Cause

UW j Loss Losses D Darken kenj Allies Cause By Dy LOUIS LOUXS F. F KEEMLE KEE Of the United Press War Desk The Japanese occupied Singapore Singapore Singapore Singa Singa- pore pore this week closed in on Java from the east and west crept closer to th the Burma road and swooped from th the air on Port Darwin in northern Australia Developments of the week Sunday Sunday Prime Prime Minister Winston Winston Winston Win Win- ston Churchill told the empire of tragedy in n the east in three words Singapore has fallen The Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- Japanese anese drove closer to S Sumatra atra oil center Monday The Monday The Japanese occupied In Burma the British British British Brit Brit- ish fell back to a new line on the Bilin river 50 miles nilles from the th the B Burma road J link man nan submarines sa sank sarik k several tankers near the Venezuelan coast and shelled the oil refinery on Aruba Tuesday Japanese heavily bombed the smaller Islands east of Java The Japanese advanced steadily toward the new Bilin river line Japanese artillery increased shelling of MacArthurs MacArthur's lines Russ warships joined in a land attack on German lines near Sevastopol Churchill told commons that escape of three German warships from rom Brest was not a reverse but actually improved the naval situa situa- tion Wednesday Wednesday The The J 3 a p pan a n ii e se s-e forced a gap in the Bilin river line United States air forces downed five Japanese planes In a I raid on four near Palem Palem- bang and damaged enemy transports transports trans trans- ports and landing barges off Su Su- Su- Su matra Japanese planes bombed Port Darwin for the first time Thursday Thursday The The Japanese advanced advanced advanced ad ad- beyond the Bum Bilm Bilin river line lineIn linein linein In Burma Shipments to China over the Burma road were reported discontinued Japanese p pIa planes 1 a n e s again bombed Port Darwin Jap troops landed on Timor The Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian army made an apparently important break in German lines South of An enemy sUbmarine submarine sub sUb- submarine marine again shelled Aruba The British ca cabinet inet was reorganized Friday The Friday The Japanese landed I on on Bali advanced in Sumatra and Timor The Russians fought their way into the outskirts of Khar Khar- kov in the Donets basin