The White Falcon - 13.12.1941, Page 4

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the White falcon
Sunday
Japanese planes attacked
Pearl Harbor.
3.10 p.m. (EST) President
issued defense order 46 against
Japan.
CBS reports Pearl Harbor
and Manila have been attack-
ed by Japanese Bombers.
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Rear-Adm. Chas. Blakely of
the 11th Naval district, San
Diego, ordered all men to re-
port immediately to their ships
and stations.
X
The White House announced
at 3.45 (EST) that a ship has
been sending distress calls 700
miles west of San Francisco
(later reported sunk by Japan-
ese submarine).
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8:30 (Iceland time) The State
Department announced the at-
tack still underway at Pearl
Harbor.
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It was believed that the Brit-
ish would take some kind of
action before the close of the
day.
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The Army air field on Oahu
was bombed. The hangar set
on fire. Shortly anti-aircraft
batteries opened up and the
sky was filled with American
fighter planes.
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Special Army and Navy of-
ficials and high legislative of-
ficials called at the White
House for conference.
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Stephen Early, Presidential
Secretary, said Mr. Roosevelt
would probably call for a for-
mal declaration of War Mon-
day.
Tokyo. — The Imperial Pal-
ace declared a state of War
exists between the United Stat-
es and Japan.
Hong Kong. — It was report-
ed tonight that the Japanese
Government is at war with
Britain as well as with the Un-
ited States.
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San Francisco. — A spokes-
man for the Japanese consul
in San Francisco said that the
Japanese attack on the Philipp-
ines and Hawaii came as a com-
plete surprise to the consulate.
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Washington. — Presidential
Secretary Early said Secretary
of State Hull, had no know-
ledge of the Japanese attacks
on Hawaii and Manilg, he was
in conference with the Japan-
ese negotiators this afternoon
and did not hear of the attack
until the Japanese representa-
tives left.
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Honolulu. — The barracks at
Hickam Field Hawaii were hit
directly by bombs causing 359
casualties.
X
Honolulu.—Parachute troops
have landed on the island of
Oahu and are approaching
from a southerly direction. Per-
sonnel of the 15th Naval district
and the 2nd Army Corps have
been ordered to duty. All civil-
ians have been cleared out of
the area.
Casualties in the initial
bombing attack on ships in
Pearl Harbor are listed as 104
killed, 300 wounded, no civili-
an casualties.
X
Honolulu. — The American
Battleship Oklahoma was hit
in the raid on the harbor, and
set afire, no indication whether
the ship was lost was evident,
though the damage may be
serious.
X
Honolulu. — The Japanese
aircraft carrier which brought
the bombers within striking
distance of Pearl Harbor is re-
ported to have been sunk.
X
Honolulu. — The U.S. Pacific
fleet steamed out of Pearl Har-
bor and a big naval battle is re-
ported off Hawaii.
x
Washington. — An American
transport was sunk 1300 miles
off San Francisco, but fortun-
ately it was carrying lumber
instead of troops.
A cargo vessel was sunk 700
miles West of San Francisco.
X
Washington. — Secretary of
State Hull branded the Japan-
ese attack an act of treachery.
He revealed that the U.S. was
waiting an answer to a plan
for settlement of the Pacific
crisis from Japan. The plan of-
fered a non-aggression pact
and economic concessions to
Japan in return for withdrawal
of troops from China and Indo
China and disavowal of her
axis ties.
The Japanese were urging
temporary measures, which
were under consideration. The
Japanese envoy called after the
attack on Hawaii had begun
with a note that Japan couldn’t
negotiate any longer because
of the U.S. attitude.
X
New York. — NBC in New
York heard a report that the
American battleship West Vir-
ginia had gone down with 750
missing. (This report was nev-
er confirmed, and a later re-
port said the W. Va. had been
hit in an engagement, but was
proceeding to base under her
own power.)
X
Singapore. — It was official-
ly announced that the Japanese
had landed in North Malaya
and are being engaged.
A Tokyo spokesman claimed
that Japanese forces have land-
ed at numerous American and
British bases throughout the
Pacific area.
X
Shanghai. — A report said
said that Japanese Marines had
taken the Bund and the Inter-
national Settlement after stiff
opposition by an American
gunboat, and a British ship.
(Later report listed the Amer-
ican gunboat Wake captured
with 314 officers and men tak-
en prisoners, and the British
ship Petrel sunk, with 15 men
including the Commander, tak-
en prisoners.)
Monday
12:30. — Meeting in Congress
for President’s War speech.
(See Page 7).
3:20 PM. (EST).—The White
House issued a statement of
what bad happened in the war.
This was the story:
An old U.S. Battleship (poss-
ibly the Oklahoma) has been
sunk in Pearl Harbor, the great
Mid-Pacific base of the U.S.
fleet.
A destroyer has been sent to
the bottom.
Many planes on the island
have been wrecked.
Several other U.S. Warships
have been damaged.
Casualties reached high
numbers. The White House an-
nounced at least 1500 persons,
apparently including both civ-
ilians and service-men, had
been killed. Another 1500 have
been injured, many of them
seriously.
Earlier in the day the Brit-
ish Parliament heard Prime
Minister Churchill declare Brit-
ain was at war with Nippon.
Australia had also declared
war against the Japanese. Fol-
lowing Costa Rica, The Nether-
lands East Indies, Thailand,
Canada, Haiti, Salvador, Hon-
duras. Cuba was negotiating
for a declaration.
X
In London the Free French
headquarters of Gen. Gaulle
announced that Free French
everywhere would be at war
with Nippon.
X
The Belgian Government in
exile recalled its ambassador
from Tokyo.
X
From Tokyo there came a
steady flow of news. Premier
Tojo made a nation wide ad-
dress and read a rescript from
the Emperor to explain to the
Japanese people why they had
been led into the war. Tokyo’s
version of yesterdays attack
on Hawaii was even more om-
inous, the Japanese naval com-
mand claimed two U.S. Battle-
ships had been sunk — the
Oklahoma and the Pacific fleet
flagship, Pennsylvania. Four
others damaged.
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Washington. — The White
House stated Monday night that
the lend-lease program would
continue in full effect. “It is ob-
vious that Germany did all it
could to push Japan into the