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Japs Overwtaelm Thalland,
Cross to Malay States
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Ameriea loses Battlesbip, Destroyer and SuVfers
3,000 Gasualties at Oahu
Raids od Singapore, Hong-Kong
Nanila, 6nam, and Wake Island
Britain, Ameriea, and Ganada Declare war,
Speeehes by Roosevelt and Ghurehill
London. Déc. 8th.
According to a report from Singapore, Japanese troops invaded Thailand this morning.
Aiter having resisted for 5Vz hours, the Thailand Government askted for an armistice and
negotiations. After a few hours’ ntegotiations it was officialiy announced from Bangkok
that Thailand had laid down arms and granted the Japanese overland passage for their
troops preparing to attack British Malaya. It was also announded that strong Japanese
forces had landed at Singgora on th'e Malay Peninsula, not far from the Thailand border,
and at Patani, 60 miles south of Singgora.
The attack yesterday on
í*earl Harbour. Honolulu. and
'0n Manila was followed by an
^ir-xaid on Singapore. where 63
Persons were killed and 133 in-
jured. Most cf these were
Asiatics. The raid did no mili-
^ry damage, and there was no
Punic among the native popul-
«tion.
BRITISH SOIL
Simultaneously Japanese sea-
horne forces landed on the east
<0°ast of Malaya, close to the
Thailand border: at Kemasin
^ar the Khota Bahru aero-
^ome and at Padang Sebang,
miles further south.
^UDSON BOMBERS ATTACK
This landing was unsuccess-
.. - Hudson bombers register-
a hit on the largest Japan-
^ escort and damaging an-
°ther; after which both trans-
|k>rts and escorts steamed away,
eaving the landed troops, who
re attacked by machine-gun
fire and are in danger of being
wiped out.
JAPS ASSAULT
AERODROME
Meanwhile, the Japanese
landing at Kemasin led ‘to an
infiltration towards the Khota
Bahru aerodrome, where heavy
fighting is now going on, Indian
troops having especially dis-
tinguished themselves.
MANY OTHER RAIDS
Last night Hong Kong, the
U.S. naval base at Guam, the
Philippines, and Wake Island
fAmerican) were all raided by
the Japanese. And this morn-,
ing Midway Island (American),
Sungei Patani, on the west
coast of the Malay Peninsula,
and Penang Island were raided.
Two raids on Hong Kong were
also reported this afternoon.
HONG KONG
The raids on Hong Kong did
very little damage as did all
the other raids on the British
possessions. Hong Kong is very
strongly fortified, and the
garrison is confident. Several
detachments óf from three to
four hundred Japanese troops
have landed on the island and
are trying to cross the frontier,
ibut strong precautionary mea-
sures have already been taken.
HEAVY AMERICAN
CASUALTIES
President Roosevelt announc-
ed to-day that serious damage
and casualties had been in-
flicted on U.S. naval’ and arrny
forces at Honolulu, Oahu,
where 104 soldiers had been
killed and over 300 wounded.
One old American battleship
and a destroyer had been sunk,
and a number of planes de-
stroyed. One Japanese aircraft-
carrier had also been sunk.
This is the one that, in the ten-
o’clock news last night, was
said to have been sunk off j
Panama. The total number of
How the
News Came
. to Iceland
When , the new>s of Japain’s
tmaohenous aittajak bnoke, nearly
every soldien wh'O had acoess to
a radio cliustened nound it. Bulle-
tins Coming thnough fpom London
and Newi York Kve e repeated fnom
ir.on ío man, an<r fn nearly every
pafe •in towtn gnoups of British
and Amerfcain tnoops oouM be
seen together disoussi ng the r.ews
eagerjy. *
Tí e Ioeland ciwii'eless ga^ e nerws
bulletins every ten minutes, and
the wihoie totwin was soon buzz-
ing ss|jith the news.
INEVITABLE
That war wouiid Qorne sooner
or later had seemed inevitahle,
biut the suddenness of the attaek
qombined with the fact that it
was carried out Wihile negotia-
tions we:e stf.l- going on in Was-
hingto.n oaused a great deaji of
toomment-
Many AmeniíQan sofLdiers had
a feeling of xelief that the tens-
ion was a,t iast over, a;nd that
at l"s; they Would have a C’-anoe
to aome to grips wúth t!he ene-
my.
casualties on Oahu amounts to
3,000, half of which have been
killed.
AIRrRAID ON GUAM
The air-raid on Guam was
also extremely severe, and the,
Japanese claim the island to be
encircled by their naval forces.
THE PHILIPPINES
In the Philippines Manila it-
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