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SINGAPORE -- Japanese bombers were decisively beaten today in their first major daylight raid on Singapore and officials predicted that the Allies would have air superiority in Malasia within three days, but they said that meanwhile Kuala Lumpur, capital of the Federated Malay States and second city of Malaya, had fallen to the invaders...
...Naval Warfare" fills a large auditorium in the St. Paul Science Museum. Twelve globe sections, seven and a half feet in diameter, are ranged around the auditorium walls, show phases of American naval strategy and problems, the major strategic bottlenecks of the world (Windward Passage, Panama, Gibraltar, Suez, Malay Straits, English Channel, Skagerrak, Kattegat). A huge revolving globe (Dr. Powell believes most people get wrong ideas of distance from looking at flat maps) shows the principal trade routes of the world. In the center of the auditorium, spread out on a huge table, are model ships in the standard...
Thailand was invaded amphibiously at the neck of the Malay Peninsula. Bangkok was bombed. After five and a half hours' resistance, the Siamese gave up. They knew their cause was hopeless, since what little equipment their 100,000 soldiers had was second-rate Japanese stuff...
...real effort was a third of the way up the Malay Peninsula. There the wary British spotted five Japanese transports landing troops across monsoon-chopped waters in the moonlit night. The British rushed to meet them and repulsed the first assault. But the first assault was just a diversion. Ten miles to the south ten more Japanese transports were disgorging their eager little beach-climbers. Here the Japanese gained a foothold, then filtered through jungles and swamps toward Kota Bhary, site of an airdrome and junction of railways running south to Singapore and north to Thailand...
...been wounded in a battle in the Brahmaputra valley, mutilated and doomed to a childless future. Unable to marry, he took to the sea, which he said "wants nothing but a gallant heart from her lover." He put into Blidah Fort, Borneo, helped suppress a rebellion against a Malay prince, wound up by becoming absolute monarch of 50,000 square miles of viciously virginal jungle in northwest Borneo...