EXPECTED SOON TO OPERATE FROM SINGAPORE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1941, Page 6

EXPECTED SOON TO OPERATE FROM SINGAPORE

Help in Protecting Vital Communications MORE ABOUT THE ATTACK ON HAWAII SEVERAL JAPANESE SUBMARINES DESTROYED (By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.in.) WASHINGTON, December 8. . It is officially announced that several Japanese submarines and planes were destroyed yesterday. Active resistance is still continuing in the vicinity of Hawaii. The commander of the United States Asiatic Fleet, Admiral Hart, announced that a small contingent of American marines in Peiping and the gunboat Wake, at Shanghai, had been forced to surrender. Imperial Headquarters in Tokio claim , that a Japanese submarine sank an American aircraft-carrier off Honolulu. The Domei news agency reports that American naval losses so far are the battleships Oklahoma and Pennsylvania, an aircraftcarrier, two destroyers and two tankers. Senator Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement that he expected a declaration of war from Germany. He added that the United States intended to wait for the declarations from the Axis instead of taking the initiative. Senator Robert Wood announced that the isolationist America First Committee, of which he is chairman, supports war against Japan. The “New York Times’’ Washington correspondent says United States warships are expected to operate out of Singapore as soon as possible, protecting the vital rubber shipments which are necessary to the American war programme. Further detailed discussions will soon take place between the A.B.C.D. Powers to devise a total scheme of limiting the activities of the Japanese Fleet. Immediate steps will be taken to meet the increased menace to the Burma Road.