PARACHUTE TROOPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1941, Page 6

PARACHUTE TROOPS

LANDED IN PHILIPPINES SUCCESS OF A.B.C.D. FLEETS. NAURU & OCEAN ISLANDS BOMBED. (Received This Day, Noon.) NEW YORK, December 8. A N.B.C. broadcast from Manila states that Japanese parachute troops have landed in the Philippines. A.B.C.D. fleets, under American command, appear to have been successful against air and sea invasions. The Japanese bombed Clarkfield, the largest army air base in the Philippines. Japanese planes also bombed Nauru and Ocean Islands.

NAZI ABUSE

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S INTERFERENCE. “PERSECUTION” OF GERMANY. (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) BERLIN, December 8. The “Volkischer Beobachte” says: “It it quite certain that if it were not for President Roosevelt’s interference, the European war would have been over long ago. He now fights Japan with the same hatred with which he has persecuted National Socialist Germany. Roosevelt has brought the American people to the point where Churchill and Jewry wanted them.”

JAPANESE PREMIER

“CONVINCED OF VICTORY.” . BUT LONG WAR EXPECTED. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) TOKIO, December 8. Broadcasting throughout Japan the Prime Minister, General Tojo, said: “I am convinced of victory. America put forward to Japan unacceptable demands. If Japan had accepted these conditions the prestige and the very existence of the Japanese Empire would have been in question. The Japanese people will have to reckon with a long war and from its result, will depend the rise or decline of the Japanese Empire and ruin or prosperity in Eastern Asia. I am happy in our pact with Germany and Italy as well as our relations in Manchukuo and China which have taken an even closer shape.”