ADDITIONAL FORCES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 February 1942, Page 3

ADDITIONAL FORCES

THROWN IN BY ENEMY North and South Line Held by British Forces ATTACKERS NOT HAVING IT ALL THEIR OWN WAY FIGHTING IN THE PHILIPPINES LONDON, February 13. When the. Singapore radio came on the air this afternoon it announced that the Japanese were not having all their own way on the island. There had been severe enemy pressure during the preceding 24 hours on the western front, supported by increased air and artillery forces. Fighting was proceeding on a line extending from the north to Pasir Panjang, some miles west of the city. . An enemy report spoke of bitter fighting and a heavy fire from British batteries. Only the German radio now claims that Singapore city is in Japanese hands. On the Salween front, heavy fighting is reported in the Paan area, 30 miles north of Moulmein. The situation in this area is obscure. Our aircraft attacked enemy concentrations in the Moulmein region. From the Philippines a United States War Department communique reports enemy artillery activity and dive-bombing. Two enemy dive-bombers were shot down. Japanese divebombers mistakenly bombed and machine-gunned their own infantry. A Batavia message states that reports of an enemy landing north-west of Macassar are incorrect. Destructive fires in Macassar itself were still burning furiously last evening. President Roosevelt announced the Admiral Thomas Hart, who has resigned the post of naval commander-in-chief in the Abda area, is returning to Washington as commander of the American Asiatic Fleet.