REPORTED IN JAPANESE ATTACK ON HAWAII

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1941, Page 6

REPORTED IN JAPANESE ATTACK ON HAWAII

White House Announces Heavy Loss of Life SOME DETAILS NOT CONFIRMED STORIES OF BATTLESHIP AND OTHER CRAFT SET ON FIRE (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 1.35 p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 7. President Roosevelt’s secretary, Mr Stephen Early, said the Japanese attacks were made wholly without warning’, when both nations were at peace, and were delivered within an hour or so of the time when the Japanese envoys called at the State Department to deliver Japan’s reply to Mr Cordell Hull’s Note of November 26. The Associated Press of America Honolulu correspondent reports that Japanese bombers scored hits at the Hickman Field military airport and another at Pearl Harbour, where they set oil tanks ablaze. American anti-aircraft fire caused a terrific din and the sky was filled with American battlecraft. A National Broadcasting’ Corporation broadcast from Honolulu states that the battleship Oklahoma was set on fire. It is reported, without confirmation, that one ship at Pearl Harbour is lying 1 on her side and that four others were set on fire. Aerial dogfights are still in progress over Honolulu. White House said naval reports from Hawaii indicated that heavy loss of life and damage resulted from the Japanese planes’ early morning air attack.