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...BATAVIA, N.E.I.--Notherlands Indies fliers said today that they sank what apparently was a Japanese battleship with a direct bomb hit amidship in the first day of the now famous battle of Macassar Strait...
...these tightening defenses were apparently not enough. Wrote the Chinese best-selling Philosopher Lin Yutang: "From every corner of the earth, from Batavia, Melbourne, Chungking and even from London itself rises the cry 'Singapore must be held.' The loss of Singapore will be the costliest mistake of the whole war. If I could write words 30 feet high I would write these words: Singapore must be held...
...Batavia, N.E.I.--Japanese bombers struck today at Dutch Timor, southern-most of the Indies, only 310 miles from the Australian coast, while Dutch troops fiercely battled landing parties at four points including the Amboina Naval base...
...According to one account, the Nazis' cable to the German Consul General in the Indies, notifying him to warn German ships of the impending invasion, was held up by the Dutch in Batavia...
...BATAVIA, N.E.I.--Everything useful to the Japanese, including shipping, was destroyed at Kuching, capital of Sarawak, Borneo, before the small garrison fell back to Dutch Borneo, a Sarawak Government European officer who was among the last to leave said on his arrival here today...