Show i- i iRed Red Soldier Ier Serves as Gun Mount for Antiaircraft aft Fire 1 sr s S Y r f ti S Sf j 1 I p I I aF J A AJ N a 4 d y P v A j VI ij h use r c i n r t N 3 4 w r Y gis 6 so j jA A vv 0 f Associated Press MOSCOW SOURCES SAY COMPANION IS FIRING AT GERMAN PLANE Tripod of gun rests on shoulder of white white clad clad trooper somewhere on eastern front U. U Filipino S.-Filipino Defenders o of Panay Yield to He Heavy vy Jap Forces w WASHINGTON AS April 21 UP Outnumbered UP-Outnumbered Outnumbered American- American Filipino forces have withdrawn from two positions on the western western western west west- ern side of Panay island after inflicting severe losses on the enemy But they are continuing their resistance and are exacting a heavy toll of enemy casualties the war department said The defenders were forced to give jive up tenuously held ground on the he Philippines' Philippines richest sugar pro island only in the face of heavy assaults launched by the Japanese without apparent regard for their own losses The Japanese made little progress progress progress ress in their continued efforts to blast Lieutenant General Jon Jonathan than M. M Wainwright's Manila bay forts into nto submission with dive bombers and heavy artillery The dive bombers turned on Forts Hughes and Drum But the said most of ot the bombs dropped harmlessly in the water No damage or casualties were reported at either fort Previously enemy dive bombers for or the first time since Bataan fell fell ell April 9 had roared over Corregidor Corregidor Corregidor Cor- Cor regidor causing some damage and casualties I Japanese artillery attacks on Corregidor and the other forts which earlier in the week saw the enemy blasting away with nine- nine inch guns for the first t time i m e lessened somewhat late yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day the war department said and the damage inflicted was not great The American forts' forts answering fire against Japanese batteries on either side of Manila bay has been tremendously effective according to previous Many enemy guns have been silenced and numerous troop and truck concentrations concentrations concentrations concen concen- first on Bataan and then thenon on the Cavite shore have been I broken up by Wainwright's artillery ar ar- ar- ar i tillery The bigger guns and the dive bombers were introduced into the attack on the harbor forts after General Wainwright's garrison had blasted Japanese troops truck and artillery concentrations on Bataan and near Cavite on the south shore of the bay f |