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...Down. The dream faded fast. At Java's western tip, beyond the Sunda Strait, the Japanese clinched their hold on southern Sumatra, its oil, its tin, and its vantage for assault on Java. To the east, Japanese planes performed their usual preparatory ritual: bombs on Dutch and Portuguese Timor, more bombs on oft-bombed Surabaya's naval base; bombs on Bali; and, to the rear, where Australia juts toward Java, bomb after heavy bomb on the tiny, tinny port of Darwin...
...became more acute as the Japanese, against stubborn resistance, poured more men and planes into southern Sumatra and crushed the last Dutch resistance at Macassar, on Colobes Island just northeast of Java. The Nipponese also resumed bombing assaults on Soerabaja, Allied naval base on Java, and on Bali and Timor, east of Java...
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...
...their deepest air raid yet made into the Indies, Japanese planes attacked Koepang and shipping south of there in the strait between Timor and the small Island of Semaoe. There was said to have been no damage or casualties...
Portugal. Delicate Portuguese-British relations were violently chafed by the British-Dutch occupation of the Portuguese half of the East Indian island of Timor (see p. 13). When the Portuguese Government protested sternly, the British Foreign Office insisted that Japanese submarines had been sighted off Timor, that the Allies acted only to forestall invasion by the Japanese. German gutturals continued to sound in Lisbon's streets, hotels and restaurants...