Chinese Admit Japs Advance in Burma; Corregidor Bombed
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LXL, NO. 148 (CluMiBed Adverttiing on Page 10) MANCHESTER, CONN., TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1942 Italy Claims Tells Of $39,356 Salary, Bonuses E n g i n e e r C e r t a i n Chinese Admit Japs British Loss B r i d g e p o r t S p a n Is 19 Ships Advance in Burma; Sunk, Damaged or Hit S a f e f o r T r a v e l In Air and Naval En- gagement; Cruiser Corregidor Bombed Sumner Concede, Rcody Claimed to Be Sunk. «> Workniauship, Qual- Rome (From Italian Broad- Only Slight Damage no A o’rtin Reports ity Not at Stamlard of casts), March 24—{/P>— T h e I t a l i a n To Produce high command claimed today that flicted byhy 54 Heavv O ‘V i g o r o u s Fighting' Specifications Due tci a total'of 19 British warships and Bombers in Attack on Only Seven Miles South Difficulty in Gettiyg Of Invasion War Goods merchant vessels were sunk, dam- aged or at least hit in an air and Fortress and American of Toiiiigoo, One of Right Kiiiil of Steel, i Naval engagement that ranged Positions in Bataan; Key Points in British- Government Prepared from the Gulf pf Sirte off the 1 Peril Faced Hartford, March 24.—(/P) Libyan coast into the eastern Med- ' Several Sharp Encoun- Chinese Position; Six —A Connecticut Highway To Go Into Direct Pro- Iterranean. Torpedo-carrying planes, three ters R e p o r t e il In Britons Are Told to Do Japanese .4ir Attacks Department engineer ex- duction If ISot Fur- of which were reported lost in the ' Peninsula Area. Yesterday Admitted. pres.sed the conviction totiay n i s h e d Privately. operations, were credited with ' Everything Possible sinking a cruiser, an unidentified | that, from a safety stand- Naval unit and a 10,000-toii mer- ' To Drive Out and point, the Stratford avenue Washington, March 24.— London, 5Iarch 24..—(iP)— Washington, March 24—</P)— chant ship, while German bombers ] Destroy Enemy Units. ^ bridge in Bridgeport was “en- which joined in the attack on the (/P)—A heavy bombing at- A considerable Japanese ad- Congress was informed today the tirely satisfactory.” Leslie G. convoy were said to have sent an- tack on the fortress of Cor- vance against the Chinese- government is prepared to go into other merchant ship to the bot- Testifying before the House Naval Affairs Investigating Com- regidor and American posi- London, March 24 .Pi - Sir held left flank of the Allied Sumner, resuming the wit- tom. nje^s staiul as the second day ot direct production of strategic ivar mittee in Washington, D. C., Miss Adelaide Bowman (above) 'of tions in Bataan by 54 Japa- John Anderson, lord pre.sldent of linos in Burma was acknowl- materials it it is unable to obtkin (The Gorman high command the hearing being given State listed three merchant ships sunk Cleveland. Ohio, told of receiving 839,356 in salary and bonuses dur- nese heavy bombers was re- the council and member of the edged today in a Chinese Highway Commissioner William them through private industry. This disclosure was made by and three others, a cruiser and a ing 1941 as secretary to the president of Jack "and Helntz, Inc., a war cabinet, -speaking in the communique reporting “vig- J. Cox on removal charges got un- Bedford, Ohio, firm manufacturing airplane motor starters for the ported today by the War De- Secretary Ickes to a House Appro- destroyer damaged. It said the House of Commons warned again oroUS fighting” Only Sevett der way, voiced that opinion after attack was carried out by .Nazi government. partment, which said only priation Subcommittee during today that Germany may attempt One conceding that "workmanship and hearings on the interior supply bill and Italian planes, and located the . slight damage was inflicted. ! mileS .south of ToungOO, quality" of the structure did not British convoy as sailing towards Several sharp encounters occurred to overrun the British Isles In the ' of the two key points .n the Brit- which was reported today. attain the standard of the original Malta.) In B ataan as fighting was re- spring and told Britons they must igh-Chinese position. In the la.st Discussing preparaPons to de- do everything possible 'to drive ; official report on this sector, specifications because of difficulty velop and obtain war supplies, Admit Ships Hit sumed thpre, the department said. sc- in getting steel. (British sources acknowledged , N elso n A s K3 30 D ays Three of the enemy bombers were out and destroy the enemy. ' fjon was located along the Pyi* Ickes said; Believed Satisfactory last night that some of their ships .shot down by anti-aircraft fire. ; (Itizens were told to "do every- river, which flows into the Slttang Purpose Of Program thing they usefully can under re- some 30 milc.<f below Toungoo. Replying to a question by Jo- "In brief, the program calls for had been hit. but none sunk. I .Artillery Fire Heavy Listed as damaged were three Without -Air Support seph Berry, attorney for Cox, as American artillery also laid | cruisers, a destroyer and three T o Se t tle D o u b le P a y (Continued on Page Seven) ' Today's communique acknowl- to whether there was any doubt (Continued on Page Seven) down a heavy fire on enemy posi- in his mind that the bridge’s deck- merchant ships, all by Italian tor- i ------- I edged six Japanese air attsck.s on pedo planes, and two merchant , o i t • w-v tions in Bataan, and the depart- I Toungoo yesterday, three of them ing, as built, "conforms to the ment aald Japanese losses were be- specifications Insofar as safety is vessels, by. German bombers. Ital- FrO llllses tO 3Pek LpgIS- lg |J g l_/C S ti*O V against the Chinese troops which ian warships were said to have Ueved to b« considerable. I toncemed," Sumner declared "no, Port Moresby were said to be without air sup- Nazi Reserve scored hits on one cruiser and two i lation If He Is Un- The bombing of Corregidor was port. sir, I believe it's entirely sati.sfac- the first large-scale aerial attack destroyers, while a "Naval unit” However, American volunteer tdry." was torpedoed by an Italian sub- able to Gel Volun- reported on that fortress since Berry then asked whether there Key Facilities Again Target squadrons were reported to have Forces Used marine. early January. Intermittent air carried out "two powerful and was "any danger to life or prop- tary Suspension Pact. raids of minor character have All of this action took place in simultaneous attacks" on Japan- erty from the use of the deck on • the Gulf of Sirte, the high com- , been made by the Japanese against the bridge," and the witness again ' In Air Raids Of Jap Fliers ese-held air fields in Thailand. Against Reds mand said. It asserted that in the Washington, March 24.— against the Island forts at the en- In the land fighting, the com- said, "No, sir.” ' eastern Mediterranean a British trance of Manila Bay and on the Queried by Richard S. (Jorkey, ! (/B)—War Production Chief munique said, the Chinese were Naval squadron "probably return- Ainerlcan-Phlllppine ground forces ™ r *» i holding their "original outpost assistant attorney general, what Donald Nelson asked Con- in Bataan duri;ig the last two WO WaVCS 4>f H tim bcrS, , ing from the battle area" was at- Claim Series of Attacks I lines” after being driven back by he m eant by saying th a t Jte be- Germans Drawing From tacked last night by Italian planes ;rress toda.v to give him a 30- me nths, but the last rtid directed I K., a reinforced enemy assault and lieved the bridge was entirely sat- which hit a cruiser with two tor- day time-limit to obtain vol- Since March 17 Suc- specifically against Corregidor was j * rtllcrtcd 1>J T Igiltcr then regaining their positions in isfactory, Cumner answered that Areas as Far Away as pedoes and registered one hit on untary su.spension of double by nine heavy bombers on Jan 15, PlailCS, ('ciller Thcir a counter-attack. ■ he meant that it could safely carry cessful in South Paci- two o£ the attacking planes being Yugoslavia and Nor- a large destroyer. .Suffer Heavy Casualties an H20 live load. The witness ex- Down Five Curtiss Planes imy for overtime through shot down. plained that H20 load meant a fic, Bay of Bengal. .'\ttaek fill Airtlrome. Both the Chinese and the enemy way; 2,500 killed. Italian fighter planes were | agreement 'with leaders of forces- identified as the 121st and bridge could bear the weight of a credited hy the high, command to - , organized labor before enact- Tokyo^ ( From 'Japanese Broad- Melbourne, Aualrslia, March 24. 143rd Japanese regiments, with 20 ton tn ick . Moscow,_____ . March_________ 24— (;Pi —Ger- <*«y with having sh^ down five U„jj legislation on the matter. He 25 Japanese Ships Among bis 22 complaints against i/Pi Jananese airmen made their ‘I Thai and Burmese detachments in mans piled reserves into Russian i States-built (Turtiss planes pyomi.sed the House Naval Com- casts).