CARMEL ITEM. MOUNT CARMEL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1942. PAGE SEVEN. Mrs. R.
Fisher, Of Maysville, Passes Away Mrs. Rose Fisher, 79, esteemed resident of Maysville, died from a- complication of diseases on Friday night at 7:00 o'clock at her home. Well known throughout the region, Mrs. Fisher lived at Maysville, for past 47 1 ruth husband, William, died seven years ago. Mrs.
Fisher, born in New Ringgold, Schuylkill county, was a daughter of the late Christian and Sarah Smith. To survive, she leaves three children, William Fisher, of Uniontown, Somerset county; Gertrude. home, and Mrs. Anna Grembowicz, of Maysville; six grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters: Albert, Frank, William and Sarah, of Allentown. The funeral will be held tomorrow morning with requiem mass at 8:30 o'clock in St.
Edward's church, Shamokin, and interment in the parish cemetery. Two Injured As Cars Collide At Fifth And Beech Two men were injured in an automobile collision at' the intersecTion of Fifth and Beech streets, this city, shortly after Saturday midnight. They were Joseph Olenchock, 48, of 233 south Market street, this city, and Walter Williams, 21, of 408 west Saylor street, Atlas. Both are patients in Shamokin State Hospital where Olenchock's condition today was reported "fair" and Williams' "good." Olenchock, according to the hospital report, has lacerations of the scalp and left wrist, a fracture of the left- forearm, rib fractures, and is suffering from shock while Williams has lacerations of the forethead and face and is also suffering from shock. Taken before Justice of the Peace Joseph G.
Zecoski by borough police authorities, Donald Glessner, 22, Locust Gap, driver of the one car, which is owned by Charles Doherty, 8 south 36th street, Philadelphia, was held under $500 bail to await the outcome ot injuries suffered by Olenchock and Williams. Police said the other car involved was owned and operated by Edward Coveleski, 42, of 327 Camp street, Mount Carmel. Coveleski, according to the police report, was traveling east on Fifth and was about three quarters of the way through the intersection when it was rammed in the side by the other machine which was headed on Beech. Coveleski's car upset. Olenchoc kwas riding with Coveleski and Williams with Glessner.
Both were admitted to Shamokin Hospital at 2:20 a. m. Sunday. Two Kulpmont Boys Lose Lives (Continued trom Page One) of the Kulpmont High track team. Mirielio was a member of St.
Mary's church, where he also served as altar boy for a number of years. He enlisted on September 23, 1940. Before he enlisted, Miriello was employed at the Pennsylvania colliery. Besides his parents, Miriello leaves the following brothers and sisters: Ralph, Anthony, Genevieve, Barbara, Minnie, at home; Mrs. Fred Pupo, Kulpmont, and Charles, of the U.
S. Navy, Girl, 7, Fractures Arm 2 Weeks After Sister Is Similarly Injured Florence, the -year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph (Howard, 228 east Water street, this city, fractured her right arm in two places when she fell Sunday in the kitchen of the family home. Just two weeks ago yesterday, a younger child of the Howards, Helen Marie, 4, broke her right arm in two places when she fell on ice near her home.
VISITS PARENTS Timothy Smith, all employe at the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Factory, Baltimore, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Smith, Mowry.
VISITS IN LAVELLE Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, and baby, of. Baltimore, Maryland, spent the week-end with Mr. Smith's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William Smith Lavele. AUXILIARY TO MEET A meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Atlas Fire Company will be held tomorrow night at 8:00 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Janet Rossi, of 144 Saylor street; Exchange. All members are urgently requested to attend.
DR. FORTNER ILL Dr. H. G. Fortner, Centralia phySician, was admitted to Geisinger Memorail Hospital on Saturday after suffering a hemorrhage.
60,000 Believed Lost In Fall Of Singapore (Continued From Page One) several thousand Japanese were killed in the low-flying, devastating It was the most effective air action by the United Nations' since the battle of the Macassar Straits. However, it was not sufficient to prevent the success of the Japanese operation at Palembang which is only 270 miles from Java. Japanese troops in South Sumatra are expected to move ily to the shore of Sunda. Strait where only 40 miles of water separates them from Java. The Dutch, anticipating the imminent fall of Palembang, fired the great oil fields and dynamited the installations, tanks and refineries in a ruthless "scorced earth" demonstration which should deny to the Japanese for some time to come the use of this great petroleum reservoir.
In a second action the Japanese landed in the Anambas midway between Singapore and the Sarawak coast. On the Burma front the Japanese assault was picking up headway despite fierce opposition by American and British planes. The Japanese now were fairly across the Salween River barrier and were driving on Thaton, only 75 miles short of the Burma road, the vital supplies link to China. Already the Chinese were discussing measures for replacing the Burma route by a new, still incomplete road to India. The story of the tragic last hours of Singapore was told for the first time by Harold Guard, veteran United Press Staff Correspondent, who arrived at Batavia after a hectic escape from the blasted, fire-swept British island.
Guard reported that the British, Australian, Indian and Malay troops had fought on for five days after it was apparent they had not the slightest chance against the overwhelming Japanese assault forces. Guard revealed that some 60.,000 Imperial troops engaged in the final defense. Not a single naval ship remained at what had once been the greatest sea base between the British Isles and Yokohama. In the final days Royal Air Force personnel were evacuated-that part of it which remained alive but no other fighting men were brought out, so far as Guard was able to ascertain. Some reports circulated that a few.
thousand of Singapore's defenders may have got away in the last hours before the unconditional surrender to Japan yesterday. But in London fears mounted that all survivors of the 60,000 or so troops were lost to the Japanese. Guard found in Batavia more confidence and a greater war effort, he reported, than ever had existed in Singapore. Britons took the fall of Singapore with cold, hard anger-anger which was directed into demands for radical, ruthless reorganization of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's government on an all-out, total war basis. Churchill's Sunday address in which he announced the fall of Singapore did not mollify his critics.
In Australia unofficial reaction was that Churchill's speech was one of the weakest he had ever made. On other fronts the Russians reported that their burst into White Russia flanking numerous German fortified positions. Land fighting in Libya was of minor nature but Royal Air Force planes destroyed 20 Axis aircraft in a devastating attack. Berlin claimed that nine British ships, including destroyer, were sunk and 15, including five cruisers and two destroyers, were damaged in a big, attack on a British convoy proceeding from Alexander to Malta. The Royal Air Force made attacks on St.
Nazaire and enemy shipping along the Norway coast. SLASH AT M'ARTHUR WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. (U.P.)Aided by heavy artillery fire and aerial atacks, Japanese infantry is slashing at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Bataan peninsula defense lines at several points, a communique said today in describing what may be the prelude of the enemy's big offensive.
Undaunted by the fall of Singapore, 1,500 miles to the southwest, which has increased the threat to MacArthur, the outnumbered American and Filipino forces were grimly resisting the new Nipponese blows. Today's War Department communique, describing progress of the Philippine fighting as reported up to 9:30 a. m. said "there was heavy enemy artillery fire in Bataan during the past 24 hours." "Intermittent infantry fighting was in progress on several sections of the front. "Enemy aviation was active throughout the day." The unmuzzling of Japan's artillery along the mountainous and jungle-like battlefront stretching across the peninsula, after a week of virtual silence, indicated to military experts that the Japanese Commander-in-chief Gen.
Masaharu Homma, might be nearly ready to unleash his threatened all-out 85- sault. I MacArthur's artillery was presumed to be answering the Japanese bombardment. Reports from Bataan have paid tribute to the sure aim of the American-Filipino gunners, who have inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese and disorganized their lines during the past 10 0 weeks of the Pacafic war. Today's communique, number 109 of the war, did not reveal the outcome of the fighting, indicating that it still is underway. Nor did it disclose whether the fighting front had shifted.
Latest information indicated that MacArthur's lines remained anchored in the region of Bagac on the China Sea coast and Pilar on Manila Bay, about 17 miles north of Corregidor fortress where the defenders will make their last stand if and when they are driven from the Philippine mainland. MacArthur's reports to the War Department during the past week have carried a repeated warning that the all-out Japanese offensive to drive his men from Luzon island may start at any moment. Sixteen days ago the Japanese commander in the Philippines, Lieut. Gen. Masaharu Homma, believing he had MacArthur's valiant forces at his mercy, delivered an ultimatum demanding their surrender.
Otherwise, he said, they would face "inexorable disaster" under the blows of an all-out Japanese offensive. But since the ultimatum the men of MacArthur have held the enemy at a virtual standstill. MacArthur has held out on Bataan peninsula now for 38 days, compared with the Japanese oneweek siege of Singapore, and still has not fallen back upon his own -the fortress of Corregidor off the tip of Bataan in Manila Bay. In the battling of the last five weeks he appears to have held the Japanese to an advance of about 15 miles southward of the OlongapoHermosa line to which his men fell back on Jan. 9 after the fall of Manila.
A War Department communique Sunday said that fighting along the Bataan battlefront had been "limited to local, unimportant patrol skirmishes" with the Japanese evidently feeling out MacArthur's lines in an effort to find a soft spot or a springboard for their offensive. PALEMBANG CAPTURED BATAVIA, Feb. 16. (U.P)--Japan's troops occupied the great Sumatra oil center of Palembang in their pincers offensive against Java today, despite furious allied blows that took a heavy toll of enemy transports. American, Dutch and British airplanes scored direct hits on seven enemy warships and transports, including two cruisers, in pounding a Japanese fleet in Banka Strait, while other Allied forces strongly battered invader ships along the Sumatra coast.
Five Japanese transports jammed with thousands of troops and the two cruisers were bombed in the Banka Straits. One of the cruisers was left burning furiously. Japanese ships in the Musi river were heavily attacked with uncertain results. Palembang is 56 miles up the Musi river. The Dutch had applied vigorously the "scorched earth" in the great oil fields around Palembang, destroying at least $100,000,000 worth of facilities and dashing the hopes of the Japanese that they could seize the main East Indies oll The Palembang area supplies around half of the East Indies oil production and the enemy had landed hundreds of parachute troops there in an effort to prevent destruction of their fields.
Virtually all of the paratroops were wiped out by the Dutch but the landing on the Sumatra coast and 011 the Musi river was successful. Large numbers of Japanese troops are still pouring into the Sumatra coast, the official statement acknowledging the loss of Palembang, said. Dutch forces, which eliminated an estimated 700 enemy paratroops before giving up Palembang, were fighting strongly to hold the enemy south of the city and to maintain control of the railroad running south and east toward the easternmost tip of Sumatra. Palembang is only 270 miles from Batavia and the Japanese were expected to attempt to drive quickly toward Java, the site of the United Nations supreme headquarters under Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell.
The Strait of Sundra, only 27 wide at one point, separates Sumatra from Java. REDS MOVE FORWARD LONDON, Feb. 16. -Soviet forces operating in White Russia have outflanked major German fortified points and are advancing toward the old Polish border, dispatches from Moscow reported unofficially today. It was believed in Moscow that the troops had crossed the upper reaches of one of Russia's principal rivers which runs through the German-occupied territory.
One division of Russian guards had broken through the German lines on the central front and advanced 30 miles. In several days fighting, the dispatches said, they recaptured "scores" of inhabited places. Russian communiques said 10,000 Germans had been killed in western front operations. Soviet troops dislodged the enemy from several villages around Khrakov, they said, and the Russian thrust southwest of Velikie Luki continued. A radio Moscow military commentator, broadcasting from the front, said a "call to arms" had been made recently to the Russian peasants im- mediately behind the German lines.
Thousands of peasants joined guerilla outfits and recaptured 41 villages which they held until the advancing Russian army occupied them. These guerrillas, the commentator said, have killed more than 1,000 Germans in recent days and have seized quantities of arms which are being distributed to the peasants. A Russian communique said the Germans brought up fresh reserves at several points and launched counter-attacks which were repulsed with heavy losses. The army newspaper Red Star said the central front advance was encountering a denser system of fortifications which increased as the Russians moved forward. Thomas Curry Dies In Phila.
Thomas I. Curry, Overbrook, Fhi adelphia, a former resident of Centralia and husband of the former Margaret Johnson who was once a member of the Mount Carmel borough faculty, died Friday in University of Pennsylvania Hospital after an illness of almost a year He was a medical patient in the hospital one week. Funeral services will be held in Philadelphia at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. Born in Centralia, a son of the late John and Margaret Curry, the deceased spent his early life in that community where he was employed in the P. H.
Murphy store. He left for Philadelphia about 22 years ago. Beside his wife, he leaves three children, John, Catherine and Jean Marie, and a sister, Mrs. Margaret Tighe, Centralia. Four Injured In Auto Crash (Continued from Page One) street, Tharptown.
Adams, it was stated, is to be summoned to appear before a justice of the peace to answer the motor violation. Damage to Miller's sedan was estimated at $300, that to Adams' coupe was figured at $200 and the damage to the Kurtz property was placed at $250. Three pillar posts on a porch of the home were ripped out and, in addition, one side of the building! was damaged. In another collision at 10:10 p.m. Saturday, two miles west of Dornsife, a sedan driven by Charles O.
Bramhall, 19, of 331 east Hamburg street, Baltimore, and a sedan operated by Alvin Long, 34, Paxinos R.D. 2, were involved but no one was hurt. Bramhall, the police report said, will be summoned before a justice of peace on a charge of driving over the center of the highway. Long's auto was damaged to the extent of $115. Damage to Bramhall's car was placed at $35.
World Day i Of Prayer Service Here Friday A World Day of Prayer service will be held in the Primitive Methodist Church here at two o'clock Friday afternoon, February 20, under sponsorship of the Ministers' Wives Association, it was announced today. Open to the public, the service will be conducted by a group of women representing each of the nine churches in the Mount Carmel Ministerium. The general theme will be "I Am the Way." Wm. Penn Man Is Found Dead His head partly blown away, Stephen Kosar, 29, was found dead over the week-end in the bedroom of his home at Upper William Penn. Deputy Coroner Francis Whalen of Schuylkill County termed it a case accidental death.
He said that as far as could be established, the young man was cleaning a shot gun Saturday night when it. was. discharged in some manner. Survivors include his mother and six brothers. Attempt Is Made To Rob Garage Here An unsuccessful attempt to commit robbery at Bridy Motor Company's garage, Fifth and Locust streets, was believed to have been made early today.
Pennsylvanta Motor Police of the district detail said they had received a telephone message saying that an attendant at the garage heard someone walking around on the second floor of the building between 3:30 and four o'clock his morning. When troopers arrived on the scene, they found a second-floor window open but no one about. Albert Bridy Becomes Sergeant In Air Corps Arthur Bridy, son of Jacob Bridy, 520 west Third street, this city, has been promoted from private to sergeant in the U. S. Air Corps and has been transferred from Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma, to Savannah, Georgia.
Sergeant Bridy, a 1931 graduate of Mount Carmel High School, is attached to the 50th Material Squadron of the Air Corps. Mr. and Mrs. Luther S. Maurer and son, Bruce, of Sayre, are spending a few days at the homes of their respective mothers, Mrs.
Annie Maurer, Helfenstein and Mrs. Mae Boyce, Merriam. Mary Ecker And Centralia Girl Paul Kulick Wed And Local Young At St. Peter's Man Married A well known Mount Carmel Township couple, Miss Mary Ecker and Mr. Paul Kulick, were married over the past weekend in St.
Peter's Church here. The ceremony, performed by Rev. Herman Herbst, assistant rector of that parish, took place on Saturday morning with Mr. and Mrs. Guido Casari, of this city, the latter a sister of the bride, as attendants.
The bride wore a grey suit with accessories to match and her sister a green suit with corresponding accessories. They wore corsages of pink roses and baby breath. The men wore boutonnieres. A wedding breakfast was served in the Hotel Pennsylvania, Fifth and Market streets. Mrs.
Kulick is a daughter of Mrs. Caroline Ecker, Green Ridge. Her husband, a son of Mrs. Antoinette Kulick, 230 west Saylor street, Atlas, is employed at Colonial colliery, Natalie. They will reside in Green Ridge.
Stella Marzari, Of This City, Is Married Miss Stella Marzari and Mr. Alex Fludovich were married Saturday evening at 6:00 o'clock at St. Peter's Rectory. Rev. C.
Hauck performed the double ring ceremony. Miss Marzari is the attractive and well known daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Marzari of 549 west Thrid street. Mr.
Fludovich is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fludovich of Centralia. The bride wore a green botany wool dress with brown accessories. Her corsage was comprised of yellow tea roses with baby breath.
Attending her was her sister Anne who wore a dress of rose botany wool with maroon accessories. Her corsage consisted of dark red roses and baby breath. Mr. Walter Waleski, of Philadelphia, friend of the bridegroom, was best man. The reception was held at the brides' home.
The bride is a graduate of Mount Carmel High School, Class of 1934, and was formerly employed as a stenographer by the Kulpmont Manufacturing Company. The bridegroom is also a graduate of Mount Carmel High School, Class of 1936, and is employed at Harrisburg. They will reside in a newly furnished apartment at Harrisburg. D. S.
Driesbach, Shamokin, Dies Delano S. Dreisbach, 77, blacksmith for the Susquehanna Collieries Company for many years and last employed at the Scott colliery, died yesterday at the home of his -in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George Lerch, of 1104 east Sunbury street, Shamokin. To survive, Dreisbach leaves his wife, the former Miss Minnie Teisher, of Mount Carmel; a daughter and two grandchildren.
The funeral, private, will be held on Thursday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. Interment will be in the Odd Fellows' cemetery, Shamokin. Friends may call at the home on Wednesday night between 7:00 and 9:00 o'clock. Deputy Collector Is In District H. Elwood Reitz, Deputy Collector with the Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Office, Scranton, will be at the 'Union National Bank in this city on February 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26 and 27, and will assist taxpayers in the filing of their income blanks.
Today and tomorrow, Mr. Reitz is at the Borough Building in Kulpmont. Hospital Admissions SHAMOKIN HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 6:30 P. M. to 7:30 P.
M. Sunday, 2:30 P. M. to 3:00 P. M.
ADMISSIONS Joseph Olanchock, Mount Carmel; Mrs. Mabel Alleman, Shamokin, R. D. Mrs. Mary Lips, Mrs.
Agnes Gessit, James McKnight, Rudolph Pinamonti and Mrs. Catherine Bonyarzone, Shamokin; Walter Williams, Atlas. BIRTHS Clifford and Anna (Wanzie) Oswald, of Midvalley 1, a boy. Joseph and Margaret (Sedar) Yudinsky, of 342 west Third street, Mount Carmel, a girl. Announcement of the Lincoln's Birthday marriage of Miss Anna Uroskie, Railroad street, Centralia, and Mr.
Anthony Rodavitch, 310 north Hickory street, Mount Carmel, was made at a supper held Saturday night at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Margaret Uroskie. Gifts were presented to the couple by a number of friends who attended the affair, Mr. and Mrs. Rodavitch will reside in Girardville.
New Age Group Registers For Army Service (Continued from Page One) He pointed out the address determines the local board which "forever will jurisdiction" over the registrant, emphasized it will have, be to the registrant's advantage to sign with a board near his home. James pointed out that all lastminute registrants waiting in line at the 9 P. M. deadline will be accepted. He urged early registrations, however, to avoid a closing time jam.
There was little likelihood that new registrants would be called into service immediately, although some may be summoned after a national draft lottery in a month to fill quotas of boards which already have inducted all men in the 1-A classification. Selective service chiefs said lists of present eligibles will be exhausted before any of the men signing now are called for induction. All persons in the specified age limit, citizens and aliens alike, are required by law to register. 1 Each registrant must swear or affirm that his answers are true. The maximum penalty for giving false information is five years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.
Registrants will be given certicates signed by the registrar, and must be carried at all times. Every man subject to registration who is now an inmate of an aslyum, jail, penitentiary, or reformatory, must register on the day he leaves the institution. Local draft board members now under 45 may sign up at any registration place, but may not be classified by their own board, selective service officials decided. Future vacancies on the 422 local draft boards will' be filled by persons above the new age limit of 45, unless the individual has been disqualifled for military service. Opening Exercises Of Observance Opening services and exercises celebrating the Golden Jubilee year of the founding of Holy Cross Church in this city were held yesterday.
After the Jubilee Mass at which Rev. Dr. J. B. Boncius, pastor of the Church, was banquet was held in the Holy Cross Hall.
The women of the parish had prepared the meal, which was attended by pioneer members of the Church. A group photograph was taken of this group by the Akelaitis Studio. Children of the Holy Cross School, under the direction of the Sisters. of Saint Casimir, had arranged a joyful progrom of songs, including American and Lithuanian anthems. Last evening special inaugural services were again held.
with commemorative sermon delivered by Father Koncius. and many parishioners participated. The parish was organized in February 1892, and from a pledged fund of third dollars per month for each working man, a church was erected. Attending the opening services yesterday were the following pioneer members: Mrs. Victoria Ajauskas, Adam Bucinskas, Frank Cerniauskas, Mrs.
Anna Duginas, Mrs. Bronislova Jakutis, Mrs. Anna Jesulevich, An-, thony Jusinskas, Mrs. Jule Kleminsky, August Kvedaravicius, Clem Lukas, Mrs. Helen Lukas, George Moleski, Mrs.
Martha Moleski, Mrs. Victoria Miller, Mrs. Anna Nedzinskas, Mrs. Josepha Petruskevich, Mrs. Martha Raciukas, Mrs.
Anna Rimokaitis, Anthony' Urbanavich, Mrs. Mary Urbanavich, Mrs. Elizabeth Urbanavich, John Zaretskas. John Balciunas and Mrs. Alexandra Kancys were not present because of illness.
Frank Cernauskas and Mrs. Helen Lukas are American born, all the rest came from Lithuania. George Moleski was secretary of the parish committee and the first parish account were written by him. These books are very well written and in perfect systematic order. The oldest member of this group is Mrs.
Anna Jesulevich about ninety years of age. Ralph Caseman And C. J. Lucas Enter Navy Clement J. Lucas, son of Funeral Director and Mrs.
Charles J. Lucas, north Vine street, this city, and Ralph "Red" Caseman, Shamokin, an employe at the Hotel Pennsylvania here, left this morning for Philadelphia from where they will be assigned to the naval training station at Newport. Rhode Island. The two toined the U. S.
Navy two weeks ago and took the service oath lat that time. GROSSMAN'S (The Store of Dependable Quality) TEEN'S FASHIONS Dress up your daughter in crisp new cotton frocks! Perfect for school and for "best" -she'll wear them now through Spring! Wonderfully washable and long wearing! New Cottons Piques! Chambrays! Seersuckers! Chintz! $1.50 and up She'll be the prettiest girl in her class in any of these! Princess, dirndl, pinafore, classic styles. Prints, pastels, solid colors, stripes, polka dots, combinations. Stock up! Wonderful "buys" every one! Few Evacuated From Singapore (Continued From Page One) evacuation of women, children and wounded and there may have been some evacuation in the case of technical troops. "We had very heavy losses in material." The commentator said that the Empire troops in the Malaya campaign included the 18th British Division, two brigades of the 8th Australian Division, the 9th and 11th Indian Divisions, totaling about 55,000 men, plus some fortress troops and supply and ordnance units, making the total considerably higher.
"I am unable to say how many remained to the end," the commentator said. "The Australian and Indian divisions and part of the 18th British Division, which represented the latest reinforcemnet, had been fighting a sixweek rear guard action on the mainland, with the enemy constantly landing behind them and under constant dive bombing. They must have been considerably weakened when they reached Singapore. "Our troops must have put up a very stiff fight in the island, surrendering only when things got to such a pass that further fighting was impossible." Shocked by the fall of Singapore and asserting that the country faced its gravest situation since the fall of France Britons demanded with increasing insistence a radical and immediate change in the direction of the war and a merciless purge of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet. They received their first news of the surender of the British garrison through Japanese communiques.
Then Churchill, in a world broadcast, announced it' in three words: "Singapore has fallen." For nearly a whole day, there had been no other official news of Singapore. The British people knew that one of the few such surrenders in their history had come atop the humilitating cruise of a German battle fleet past the Dover coast within range of shore guns. They knew that half a dozen famous regiments of British regulars, British Royal Marines and sailors and engineers, an Australian Imperial force, Indian regiments, Malayan and Sarawak forces had been involved in the fall of Singapore. They knew nothing of the number of men involved in the surrender, how the collapse dad come, what proportion of the garrison had been evacuated to the Netherlands East Indies, which are now under a full scale Japanese attack. But the most dramatic, if not actually the most important defeat of the war, was ghastly fact to them.
It dwarfed the surrender of the little garrison at Hong Kong, and the people went back to Kut El Amara in 1916 when British army surrendered to the Turks, and Lord Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown in 1781 for comparisons. Reports started to circulate that there had been another Dunkirk, that many if not most of the British and Australian forces had succeeded in leaving the island Friday night for the Netherlands East Indies. But for hours, the country waited vainly for official news. Long after the Japanese had announced the surrender, the British Broadcasting Corporation heard the Singapore radio at 10:37 a. m.
EWT give a routine 'broadcast of world news. The announcer ended: "Good night everybody. We shall be on the air as usual tomorrow morning." It was not until 9 o'clock last night London time, when Churchill made his speech, that the official announcement came that it was all over. An Australian correspondent who reached Batavia from Singapore reported that an Australian warship had rescued 1,300 soldiers from a burning transport which 40 Japanese planes were attacking seven miles off Singapore. Churchill in his speech Sunday made a studied dfeense of his war direction, a foretaste of what he must- tell the House of Commons when he faces it this week.
He reviewed the events since the fall of France, the Russian- smashing of the Nazi legend of invincibility, the Japanese sneak attack and the American entry to the war. Then he made his plea--for national unity, and reached his percration. This, he was one of those moments when the British race would show its quality and its genius. Britons said that it was a typically good Churchill speech but that it was not good enough. They wanted to see themselves fighting forward through the storm, not sitting out in the open being drenched.
The indication was strong still that Churchill's own position was secure provided he acted soon and vigorously to buck up the war, effort, with especial reference to the actual fighting. Newspapers generally called on the nation to criticise methods, not men. The newspapers agreed that Churchill was the fight leader but they demanded that he must delegate some of his duties to good men because he was trying to do too much, instead of hazy optimism they be given facts, that the government show a realization that the way could be lost if it were not properly fought, that he reorganize his cabinet at once. Stock Market NEW YORK, Feb. Stocks rallied today after an initial decline on the fall of Singapore.
Around noon the list registered small net gains with volume light. Patino Mines, most active issue, was up more than a point at Other non-ferrous metal issues were firm. Steels made minor advances. U. S.
Steel rose more than a point from its low of 51 and at was up point net. Chrysler gained more than 8 point. General Motors recovered point from its low and was up net at Rails showed small gains in most issues, although Norfolk Western sagged a point to a new low at 178 on a single transaction. Du Pont, Johns-Manville, Jewel Tea and American Car Foundry gained a point and more. American Chicle made a new low.
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