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Show Jap Battleship Heavily Damaged. By U. Bombers. By FRANK HEWLETT MANILA; Dec. 1$ UJ!) Admiral Ad-miral Thomas C. Hart, command-er-In-ch5ef of the United States Asiatic fleet, asserted today a Japanese battle fleet had fled when a United States fleet con-tacted con-tacted It. ' A 29,300-ton Japanese battleship was definitely put. out of control by navy bombing: , planes he said, supplementing an official communique com-munique - issued in Washington last night. " ; Hart said the Japanese battleshipbelieved battle-shipbelieved to be the Kongo, was attacked; by navy bombers and suffered one heavy and at least two lighter bits. When it was last seen 1 it 'was definitely "out "of control and it was certainly - seriously crippled, he said,: - . . . Ilaruna Sunk . This was .in addition to another battleship of this class, believed to be the Haruna, which was sunk by army bombers., Hart asserted surface ships of the Asiatic fleet had - contacted the enemy fleet at a considerable distance from - Manila, but - the Japanese made did not develop. , The-army announced that Capt. Colin Kelly, Jr., who scored the three direct hits which sank the first battleship,, had - been -killed in action. " Kelly, 26, a native of VInrida. hri fivpri Yiia Hf tn win America's - first . outstanding naval victory1 -of the Pacific war. forces were reported to -be fighting fight-ing i Japanese landing parties in the Legaspi area, at the southeast tip of Luzon Island, 210 miles from Manila, arid it was admitted Japanese troops " were how In greater' force m northern Luzon. Hard said the navy's -Cavite base, eight miles southwest of Manila, had been hit by a powerful power-ful Japanese inOTe"attacTtrrRer"e were extensive fires and great damage was done, he said. Small ships lying at the ward were also damaged. Dispensary Bombed Orte bomb directly hit a dispensary, dis-pensary, Hart said, and everyone in it was ' killed,' including nurses and., doctors. . He, emphasized, the dispensary was in the center of a fortified area. He said loss of life figures had not been completed, - but it - was known most of the dead were civilians. . . , ' Hart said submarines of the Asiatic fleet had -not yet reported "But we 'expect big results," be added. "When a torpedo hits a ship it stays hit." The submarines were - the big game hunters of the fleet, and they used only elephant guns, not shot guns. Hart said. He announced Lieut. H. A. Ut Japanese fighters. He shot down one. Hart said, and then .made a forced landing, taxied his seaplane age' and took, off next morning, returning to hi3 base. Describing the attack on the second' Japanese battleship, Hart said Lieut. C. A. Keuer sighted off northwestern Luzon and held contact with it for a long1" time, despite anti-aircraft fire, guiding the attack of bombers led by Lieut. Commd. J. V. Peterson. The navy fliers then Dressed their "attack despite heavy gun fire, he said. An army communique said six Filipino planes, attacking two Japanese plane formations of 27 planes each, had shot down two Japanese craft without loss to themselves. A later communique said the United States air corps had de stroyed 11 Japanese planes. It was understood all were destroyed today. ' " . PHILIPPINES (Continued from Page One) pounded at our main military bases on the island. Official statements at Manila acknowledged -considerable damage dam-age to such bases as Cavite, adjacent adja-cent to Manila, as a result of enemy air attacks which continued off and a fight againsi BUir American opposition today. .- Meantime, our marine garrison at Wake Island was believed to be- holding out and blows against the Japanese had resulted in sink ing of one battleship, one cruiser and one destroyer and heavy dam age to a second 29,000-ton battleship. battle-ship. - - A Japanese battle fleet fled to avoid a clash with American war ships. Admiral Thomas C. Hart, commander of the Asiatic fleet, said at Manila. American sub marines in the Far East were re ported striking at the enemy and American aerial fighters were credited with knocking down 11 planes today. Still In Action A" marine garrison that held .out against four "Japanese air and sea attacks on little Wake Island was believed to be still in action, although It was presumed new enemy assaults had been made. On other fronts: MALAYA Patrol fighting continued con-tinued against the Japanese offensive of-fensive toward Singapore, which has been held- in the extreme northern part of the Malaya States near Kota Bharu and also on the west coast. Japanese attempts, at-tempts, to land at Kuantah were repulsed and Japanese air raids seemed to be decreasing. HONG KONG Chinese forces, reported to have wiped out 15,000 enemy troops were attacking strongly against the Japanese rear lines in an effort to relieve pressure, pres-sure, on Hong Kong. The British defense ' lines - were withdrawn slightly to improved positions" but there was no indication of a heavy AUSTRALIA An air raid alarm was sounded in the Port Darwin area. LIBYA British forces attacked attack-ed in the Ain El Gazala sector, -40 miles west of Tobruk, ' in a new attempt to wipe out axis armored strength in North Africa - and MARINES MAKE STSOTiSTAND AT WAKE ISLAND By JOSEPH I MYLER WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 XU& The war: is less than a week old for the -United States but future-historians future-historians already have -a, setting for another Lexington; Alamo or Little Big; Horn. vVv s; .' When It' can be told if there are any survivors the story of the brave defense of Wake Island by a -small marine garrison may be an epic. , ; '-' .. : j The only details available about the stand of those marines to de fend their pinpoint of land in the middle of (he Pacific are the cold, unsentimental words of navy communique com-munique No. 2. But between the lines are the makings of a drama that may make other "last stands" sound like tea parties. - The setting a tiny coral reef about four miles long that is called. Wake island. 'Actually it is three islands shaped like an irregular "V through the opening at the top of the "V the waves of the Pacific pound over a coral reef into a protected pro-tected lagoon. The lagoon,, until the war, was used by trans-Pacific clipper ships as their second stop west of Hawaii. ' Wake is the most isolated of all the important islands in the west Pacific. The nearest other pinpoint pin-point of land is the island of Taongi in the Japanese mandated islands, 400 "miles to the south. From Wake to Hawaii It Is 2,000 miles and in the opposite direction it Is 1,300 miles to Guam. It was at Wake that the garrison garri-son awoke Sunday morning to the roar of Japanese bombing planes and the : boom of Japanese naval guns. Yesterday the navy revealed that within 48 hours the garrison was attacked four times by enemy aircraft and. once by light naval units. There are no details about how many men were in that garrison, gar-rison, but they fought back, and still are fighting and will continue to resist. Their valiant stand has not been in vain." ; " "Despite loss of the part of the defending planes and the damage to . material and personnel," the navy's communique said, "the de fending garrison succeeded in sink ing one light cruiser and- one destroyer de-stroyer of the enemy forces by air action." Then it added a resumption of the enemy attack and a probable landing attempt was exp-ected. Future of Wake is in the lap of the Gods and- the hands of its "leatherneck" defenders who are upholding their motto, "Semper Fidelis" ever faithful. ! ,'1 I rSl YOU CAN SELECT A SWEET WWE-with WWE-with EVERY DROP a ftKTrJi aNv CAUFOnNlA Mm Aroma dV California is a delicious. Natural Grapt Wln Jnust 2 aiy to-reiriember varieties: foicf&VVnif. It Is proper Jo serve on any and all occasions'. Decidedly not expensive! Sefecf RED OR WHITE SWEET OR.U0HT ALERT (Continued from Page One) mand on Its service, Chief Hawk ins stated. 4 Unpublicized preparations for emergencies have been under way ever since organization of the unit in 1940, the veterans and other members attending regular school sessions taught by outstanding, out-standing, men in the, field. . Considerable training has been given and more will continue in civil defense and offense, first aid, transportation operation, mob and riot control, approach and Beizure" technique for critical points and areas in unfriendly hands, and ' thorough use at firearms. fire-arms. If the, need arises, the unit will seize and guard "critical points and critical areas" and all . municipal mu-nicipal and private installations so that these installations' can be' operated normally " and efficiently effi-ciently for protection of residents, according to the .chief. The 'chief explained that a careful survey has been made of the . community in every single phase of its 'defense and all problems prob-lems for every possible emergency have been ' studied. AH strategic positions, and military objectives will be covered. j Signals will hot be sounded except ex-cept in' an emergency unless for training purposes in which case the-public will be adequately notified, noti-fied, it was pointed out r A' similar "defense alert unit" Of 1500 men is being maintained, in Salt Lake City. - flames Announced Of 37 Casualties In Hawaii Attack X. 5-"- " W - A i ( ... V. . . t i WASHINGTON. . Dec. 12 UP The war department t today . announced an-nounced names of 37vnore men who were kined in action or died of wounds as result of the Japa nese air attack on Hawaii last Sunday. The new list brought to 158 the number of deaths announced by the army as resulting from the attack on Hawaii. Nine officers and 112 enlisted men previously had' been reported killed.' ' ' The new list: Corp. Raymond Mayo, Guin, Ala. Pvt. Ben Odette, AvenaL Calif. Pvt, Sherman Levine, Chicago. Pvt. William F. Lundgren, Chicago. Chi-cago. Sgt. Willace R. Martin, Chicago. Pvt. James I. Lewis, Chase, Kan. Sgt. Frank S. Posey, Natchit- Pvt. William T. Rhodes, Hing-ham, Hing-ham, Mass. Pvt. Leo E. A. Cagne, Lynn, Mass. Pvt. Eugene B. Denson, Canton, Miss. Pvt. William E. McAbee, St. Louis. Pvt. William F. Shields, Hobbs, N. M. Staff Sgt. Paul V. Fellman, Albans, Al-bans, N. Y. Pvt. Clarence T. Boyt, Liberty, N. Y. Pvt. John J. Horan, North Tar- ryton, N. Y. Pvt. Thomas M. Coyne, New York. - Sgt. Stanley A. McLeod, Jones-boro, Jones-boro, N. C. Corp. John J. Kohl, Sprihgfield, O. Sgt. Paul B. Free, Williams port, Pa. Pvt. Ivan C. Lewis, Tower City, Pa', Pvt. John. F. Morris, . Greens-burg, Greens-burg, Pa. Pvt. Otto C. Klein. Pittsburgh! Pvt. Earl A. Hood0 Dillon,' S.C. Pvt. Robert C. Duff, Elizabeth-ton, Elizabeth-ton, Tenn. Sgt. James E. Strickland, Jr., Erwin, Tenn. Sgt. Felix Bonnie, San Antonio, Texas. Sgt. Doyle Kimmey, Huntington, Hunting-ton, Texas.- f Sgt. James M. Barksdale, Cro-zet, Cro-zet, Va. ' ' Corp. Claude I. Bryant, Sum-mersvllle, Sum-mersvllle, W. Va. Pvt. Robert L. Hull, Wheeling, W. Va. ' ' Pvt. Russell P. Vldoloff, Mahan, W. Va. Pvt. Robert H. Gooding, Hick-am Hick-am Field, Howaii. ' ' Pvt. Torao Migita, Honolulu. Pvt. Richard L. Coster, Chilli-cothe, Chilli-cothe, 111. Pvt. Robert R. Kelley, Findlay, Ohio. Pvt. Paul R. Eichelberger, Camp HiU, Pa. Sgt. Edwin N. Mitchell, Gold- thwalte, Tex. JAPAN DENIES- LOSS OF TWO BATTLESHIPS By UNITED PRESS . Japan denied today it had lost two battleships off the Philllpine islands and asserted that in a combined com-bined naval and military operation It had landed a new force; of Invasion In-vasion troops In southern ' Luzon island. .Tokyo asserted the Vichy government had assured Japan of strict neutrality in the Pacific war.:. ' ' - There were two daylight raids today at Manila, but no enemy planes arrived over the city. . . Axis aliens are being (placed . in protective custody on the island. - MANILA, Dec 12 (U.R) I today that a Japanese plane was shot down today, attempting at-tempting to attack the army's Clark field air base. "The plane fell in the mountains," the spokesman said. ' "Some time later a group of mountain natives brought In three Japanese aviators, trussed up like captured cap-tured animals. ROMA WtMC C0MMXV. INC. FRESNO, CALIFORNIA prevent . a .retreat to the . Derna defense line. - - - RUSSIA Red army attacks continued to gain ground in ' the Yelets sector,, southwest. of Mo cow, where about 100 villages were reported retaken; near Kalinin, where heavy " casualties were inflicted in-flicted on the Germans and in the Volokolamsk - region,- 1 west ofj Moscow. On the - northern, front, the Finns claimed to have wiped out three Russian" divisions. WESTERN EUROPE - The Royal Air Force heavily attacked western and northwestern Ger many, striking hardest at Cologne; where fires were started.. Brest and Le Havre also were bombed. ""ATLANTIC FRONT The Ber lin' radio claimed four British ships totalling 27.000 tons had MARDI GRAB TO BE ABANDONED NEW. ORLEANS, Dec. 12 U.E -The merry-makers of Mardi Gras have ' put away their masks and abandoned carnival plans un-- til ' peace-comes again, it was announced today. It was the first time since 1917 that the carnival kreewes can celled their celebration due to war. skepticism ' regarding sincerity of Russia in its neutral attitude toward to-ward Japan"! . . J ' " The general feeling at Honolulu, according to' word from newspa permen- there 4s that the "tide has begun to turn". . .FBI warned any Japanese, German or Italian na tionals, not to carry camera or firearms... . . PROPOSES SO PER CENT f INCREASE IN" NAVY ' , WASHINGTON: Dec. 12 ni Chairman David L Walsh, D., Mass., ' of the senate naval af fairs committee today introduced a bill authorizing a 30 per cent increase in strength of the U...-S. navy. ' " ' Walsh said the legislation had been requested by the navy department de-partment and , would grant , permission per-mission of a 900,000-ton expansion expan-sion in the nation's sea forces. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (HE) Mom . Rajawongse Sent Pramoj, Thailand's slight, Oxford educated minister, today refused to accept the surrender of his, tiny nation to Japan. He and his staff will work for "the re-establishment of free and independent Thailand," Thai-land," he said. Artillery, Medics 'Return to Frisco Members of the 145th and 222nd field artilleries, ' and medical de-: tachments, second - battalions, are in San Francisco getting ready for overseas servi ce, according to private word .received by relatives here. The ship was called back to port after being some 500 miles out of San Francisco, following the Japanese - attack on Pearl Harbor. There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet. Unlpresser Francis McCarthy, on duty at Honolulu, said the. U.S. army functioned magnificently in its first test of Pacific warfare, despite audacity of .the assault. He said Fort Shafter, one. of the army's oldest posts on Oahu island, stood ' up well in its first baptism of fire. . . Rangoon Evacuates Shanghai dispatches assert the people of Rangoon, capital of Burma, had started to evacuate the city... the Philippine national assembly aproved an emergency powers bill authorizing President Manuel , L. . Quezon to spend all available unexpended public funds for national defense and civilian protection. . . Dome! reported from a Japanese army base In south China that bombers again today raided Hong Kong effectively. . .British radio aid Port Darwin on Australia's north coast, had an air raid alarm during the night; . . British planes, resuming: their aerial offensive, had bombed; seV- exal places in north and northwest Germany during the .night '. i. at San Francisco; 500 Italian garbages collectors volunteered to - donate their . time Sunday to' deliver sand to every block in San Francisco sand to extinguish incendiary bombs.-. . University Closed Russia has given no hint as to whether the Soviets plan to offer the XT. S. use of Siberian air bases for its war against Japan. The Soviets and Japan have a mutual non-aggression pact . .'. ; University of Brussels, according accord-ing to a Stockholm disratch, has been closed and 10 officials;, arrested, ar-rested, because ' the - university board 7 refused ' to accept German faculty appointments. 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