LOSS OF CORREGIDOR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1942, Page 3

LOSS OF CORREGIDOR

ADMISSIONS IN AMERICAN PRESS FAILURETO TAKE ACTION IN TIME. AIR BASES ON MINDANAO. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 9,45 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 7. Editorials in all the newspapers unanimously praise the glorious stan of the American and Filipino troops in the Philippines, but frankly criticise the shortcomings responsible for the fall of Corregidor. The “New York Times” says: None of us but are guilty for the loss of Corregidor—the unimaginative _ who thought it isn’t our war, the provincial who couldn’t see beyond the continental shore. From the High Command to most obscure citizen we stand before a tribunal whose judges are the Corregidor wounded, captives and In the “New York Times,” Mr Hanson Baldwin points out the importance of the Japanese invasion of Mindanao, by which the Japanese captured the most secret air bases which Allied planes recently used on a long range foray. The War Department announced that approximately 11,574 soldiers, sailors, marines and civilians, presumably weio captured by the Japanese when Corregidor fell.