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...Japs in Hawaii kept off the streets last week as much as possible. They were scrupulously polite. A group of loyal Jap-American employes of a Waikiki hotel asked to be locked in a concentration camp at night, said they would go straight to work in the morning, pay part of the upkeep of the camp. (The Army turned down their offer...
...Prong. The Japanese chose their first landings well (see map): near Serang in the west, a hop & skip across the Sunda Strait from invaded Sumatra; on the broad, open coasts of Indramayu Bay, 160 miles eastward from Serang; at Rembang, another 225 miles to the east. Thus the Jap with three strokes sliced up the northern Javanese coast, flanked the capital of Batavia, the Army's mountain fortress at Bandung and Java's chief naval base at Surabaya...
...ammunition supply. For armored cars, they walled trucks with double sheets of boiler plate. The first layer took the zing out of armor-piercing bullets, the second stopped them. The improvised cars with their mounted machine guns roared over the narrow, metalized Java highways, barking at advance parties of Jap bicyclists and rushing defenders to threatened points...
...Department revealed that "thousands of enemy soldiers" were believed drowned or killed in yesterday's surprise raid in Subic Bay in the Philippines when five Jap ships aggregating 30,200 tons were sent to the bottom...
...Department revealed today that Jap warships are blasting seven port cities on three southern islands, and that enemy troops are being landed at an eighth--Zamboanga on the island of Mindanao--which is "in flames...