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Monday Evening. February 17. 1941
Citadel tor Big Guns, Big Rubber,Big Tin—
MIGHTY SINGAPORE, KEY TO WHOLE ASIAN
TOKYO Feb. 17—(UP)— For- air force bases in both Thailand
eign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka and French Indo-China.
, There was great interest here in
asked the support of the Japanese the attitude of the United States
people today in connection with the in favor of its declaration in favor
importation of German technicians of the maintenance of the present
and latest German invention' in status of the South seas
order to strengthen both the na- —:------------------------------
tional defense and the general
PUZZLE, GIVES PAUSE TO NIPPON FORCES'
J Tropical
: jungles
TERRITORY OF JOHORE
PULAU UBIN
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economy of-the country
Mats uoka gave no details of the A 1
plans to uitlize German skill He y
was respor .
Johore
cousewey
R A. F.
AIR BASE
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CHANGI J
AND
questions regarding the operations
ofa
nomic commission composed of • 0004
Japanese, German and Italian,
delegates which is to implement
Japans alliance with the axis
powers.
Matsuoka said he put spe-
cial emphasis on the develop-
ment by the committee of peace
time industries, and pointed
out that these were also an
Large
Rubber plantations
NAVAL SASE
Ona of world’s
strongest
Radio 1
3 Station
18-inch guns guard
entrance to harbor
Stamford Church Suspects Freed in
Board Elected - puspens Feed in
STAMFORD Feb 17.-pLS - Eastland Mystery
Four men have been elected to the . ′ *
We call him Eric the Red. _
His name isn’t really Eric, and
his hair is hopelessly black and
his -complexion has a tendency low-
aid muddiness.
Nevertheless, we call him Eric the
The reason we call him Eric the
important defense factor.
He continued to say that Red is because he is an avowed
strengthening of Japanese economy communist. Being a communist he
was also necessary from the view- automatically became a red. , and 1
point of Japan’s construction of a seeing as how Eric the Red is a
“greater east Asia ’ amous name among the more
’ sphere." I: was then that he asked Histoncaily inclined that what we
support of the people FocIh wel. by all accounts, the last
aesin 6s German technicians time Eric was around on one of his
*Re ac ed EMA: the military com- periodical trips he was quite dis-
mission was a ready functioning 5..
Excited press dispatches reported The world is coming to a pretty
. Excited press aispariche repor ed pass.’ he stated flatly “Personally
that American ship captains in the ; bemtm-to got discouraged
Pacific were now carrying sealed i : 00 theserevolution sili
instructions on what to do if war never come. First it was WPA
broke out that Britain had con- and PWA and NRA and CCC and
centrated 20.000 men on the Thal- social security and now its the
land frontier and that Britain was defense program:
working out joint campaign plans Why ill tell you with the way
with China against Japan employ ment is increasing we never
Nichi- Nichi in a dispatch from will get the revolution—unless Joe
Los Angeles sai all captains Stalin puts it,over after all the
of American merchantmen on- far nations have fought ■ themselves
eastern runs now had sealed in- down until they can’t do anything vance to the south.” and when Is
structions which they would open to prevent it - 7 vance to the sou.n and when is
on receipt of wirelessed informa- There’s nothing that holds up
tion from the Unite States gov- the coming of the revolution like
ernmentin even- of the worst de-- jobs Jobs have ruined more good
velopment.” ■ communists than all other forces.
, Straits of Malacca
Reservoirs Underground
′, TE fuel oil depot
CIVIL
AIRPORT
Reir,
Town of A
SINGAPORE
official board of the Central Christ-
ian church for a three-year period,
and the board of trustees was
named
Official board members elected
were George Zackary, Ralph King.
C E Coombes and O. A Kinney.
The board of trustees is composed
of C. E Coombes, Dr. Dallas South-
ard and E. R Pace.
At the regular meeting of the
board the following officers were
; re-elected: George Zackary. chair-
man; A. M. Gonant, vice chairman;
Robert Grant secretary; R P
Small, treasurer. Other members
of the board are Dr Q D Gould
Pierre Williams. Frank Meleen. S
L. Fleming and Echols Williams
Haskell Deputy
Clerk Resigns
HASKELL. Feb. 17.— (Spl) —
Lucile Akins, deputy county clerk
of Haskell county for the last five
years. Friday resigned to accept
appointment as a junior clerk typ-
EASTLAND. Feb 17.—With the
release of four persons held at
Wichita Falls for investigation in
Eastland’s "murder mystery," Sher-
iff Loss Woods said today he was
without a lead in the case.
Accompanying Wood to Wichita
Falls Sunday were Hazel Alford.
Eastland nurse who said she pro-
nounced dead a man in the back
seat of a car driven to the hospital
Wednesday night; Dist. Atty. Earl
Conner Jr. and Police Chief Cy
Bradford of Strawn
They failed to identify any of
the four persons held at Wichita
Falls as having been connected
with suspicious incidents at Strawn
and Eastland, said Woods. At
Strawn, a cafe employe had re-
ported seeing a dead man in the
back of a car.’
fice at Fort Sam Houston, San An-
tonio, She will assume her duties
there Feb 17 Miss Akins, honor
graduate of Haskell high school,
was a charter member and his-
American shipping companies mbined
were calculating daily the positions He hitched up his faded denim
of their Far Eastern steamships. Tourers and slumped further down
the dispatch said and were paying on the park bench
particular
attention to the waters
between Manila and China
Singapore Mined,
Army Reinforced
. of SINGAPORE
c A PASIR PANJANG As
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torian of the Senior-Junior Maga-
ist in the quartermaster’s supply of - zine club of Haskell.
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TUAI
Hidden machine gun
nests cover 25-mile X
coastline from Pasir
Panjang to naval base
Singapore Strait
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[Map shows position of big coastal defense guns that guard only navigable entrance to
naval base on Singapore Island, and spots civil and military features of the British strong-
i hold.
By DAVID S. WAITE
Editor, Singapore Free Press
Written for NEA Service
SINGAPORE Feb
will the next step in Japan's “ad-
in principle by the Vichy gov- tive policy toward the Indies, she
eminent and Japan’s ‘representa-
tive in France Then Japanese
17.—What troopsb entered Indo-China and
Japanese aircraft took possession
of a number of airfields.
would have to deal with defenses
Yet Indo-China remained
which are daily growing in
strength. The Indies are a vast
area to defend, but they are also
a vast area to attack The Dutch
it likely to take place’ French and the Japanese authori-
Those are the questions puzzling ties did not Increase their pres-
many people in the Far East—and sure for further concessions Dis-
cussions have moved to Tokio.
where they are confined to the
particularly in Singapore, whose
'future is so intimately bound up
The best thing in the world for
communists is to have no job and
not enough money to do anything
and either the ability to do a little
reasoning or at least listen to
with the situation in the Orient.
economic field.
Since French Indo-China must
find a fresh outlet for her exports.
think they could get the better of
any aggressor—at least until either
Britain or the United States came
to their aid, which they—regard
as likely
so it is Singapore which shrewd
observers regard as one of the few |
stabilizing factors. Those who
planned the development of the
island as a great naval base and
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Singapore itself provides the
principally rice and rubber which
key to the whole East Asian puz- formerly went to Europe, she wel-
zle This is especially true of the comes the opportunity to sell to fortress were far-sighted men.
region the Japanese call the Japan in return for manufactured They decided to build in 1922.
South Seas'—that section bound- goods she previously imported from
meone else reaso In theory ed by Indo-China Thailand Ma-
communism sounds--swell.
lava and the Netherlands’ Indies.
The changes that Wave recently
goods she previously imported from
France
The reward of their labors is to
be seen in Japans continued hesi-
Amarillo Bishop to
- Address Catholics
BIG SPRING, Feb Il.— Spl' —
“The Rev Robert E Lucey, bishop
of the Amarillo diocese, will be
here Tuesday and Wednesday for
meetings of Catiiohc men and wo-
men of this area.
Eugene McNallen, Big Spring,
will be the principal speaker at
the men s gathering Tuesday even-
ing. Mrs A. R Houston. Stanton.
Mis Allen Tolbert and Mrs. J. J.
Kelly of Midland Mrs. W P Lee
and Mrs Tom Donahue of Sweet-
water. Mrs Everett of Odessa and
several Big Spring women will par-
ticipate in the Diocesan Council of
Catholic Women session here Wed- %
nesday. ..__
Representatives are expected from
Sweetwater Colorado City, Stanton.
Midland Odessa. McCamey and
Crane.- _______
Indian Missionary
Speaks This Evening′*
′ James E. White, a Sioux Indian
who is a missionary of the church
of Christ in the northwest will
speak this evening at the Highland
church of Christ, which sponsors
his work
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Named to ser
vice president; Mi
recording secretar
Brock, treasurer. 1
Officers were
ring committee. M
Wo. B. Stanley
Time was sei
which will be an
tainment this yea
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eitv. and Mrs. Jon
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for this party vre 1
Members voted
lecture course spon
eration for anothe
lecture of this yea
William Lyon Phe
for March 2.
A report was he
of the nursery foi
a federation proje
ported by donation
individuals. It was
this nursery, on A
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Mrs. Dudley was
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Franco-Japanese economic col-
laboration in Indo-China is nat-
ural, and inevitable in present cir-
cumstances While it may lead to
future political collaboration it
LONDON Feb 17 - UP Great "But just let a fellow get a job t
Britain, mining the approaches -0 and have to start working steady
Singapore after reinforcing heavily and get a little spending money and
its fighting forces in the Malay start accumulating a little, stuff
peninsula awaited - day a Japan- including a wife and what happens’
ese challenge for domination of You mention communism and the
the Pacific South sea areas brotherhood of man to him and.
The mining of Singapore an- The goes straight up and screams for
Bounced here and at Singapore the cops or American Legion!
strengthened belief . diplomatic Why if you want to see some
quarters that the government had real dyed-in-the-wool communists
reason to expect a simultaneous just hang around some of our col-
drive by Japan against the Nether- leges Especially the larger ones
land. East Ir ies or Singapore Boy you c’” beat the bushes and
self and by Germany against the round up hundreds of ern
British isles and in the Balkans "What happens after they get
through Bulgaria. out of school?. They get jobs and
ordaran see reponea Makins: To PANF ,0"EOOPNIINE
sia mat H but a good substantial citizen that’s
to- dan........tit trying to loin a civic luncheon ,
for domination . le South seas , T downright discouraging, sea, and no Japanese admiral is
.The ar - - -: cane sine -and “ son want supreme ikel rk neet in an as- fFiine the Burma-Yunnan road
. ix.et.eRgnd hh example just look at Harry Itempt to proveotherwise. The Thais are disposed toward the 1
Males Peninsula were mor a dan-that claim he’s . communist well of Singapore itself has gone hand- Reports that Thailand is pro-
R***MFaRFWP Inac the NEmc aim: - - - 1 MelFt protKEEToR™ OF : DWEL 400/3 lncEnenF notodcpo-
"After all. he's in the gravy! what the island base. The whole of the Thai government Thailand 'wants
more does he want- What would Malay peninsula—comprising the passionately to retain her ide
he have to use as . spur for his British-protected states from the pendence in a world in which
unions if we should have the revo- we 1 - known Johore to the little- small powers nave come off rather
|lution- T don’t believe he's a com-known east coast states such as badly .
Kelantan—is in what is known as She knows what she could ex-
i nose, are etenienied in ar pect from Japanese hegemony in
troops are stationed in all parts East Asia and-while maintaining
of the country, and jungle warfare her police or etrien nednaintainins
tactics suitable to the tropical rain leaned more toward oeralitathes
forests of the peninsula have been than Japan in recent monthsttain
closely studied., u . If the Japanese decided on any
In the past few months Singa- continental venture, they might
porecsiairi strength has been great- concentrate on the Netherlands
$ increased. Aus tralian and New East Indies But here again they
Zealand, squadrons as, well as are still concentrating on economic
I units of the Royal Air force, are matters The leader of the Japa-
I under the command of Air Vice nese delevation :n Pa-avia has
Marshal T. J Babington. There given Dutch authorities a Scales
. are crafts of all typesreconnais- gorical denial that the Indies are
its agreeable and easy to take sance planes, with, a flying radius considered as coming within the
sphere of the new order" which
taken place in Singapore are con-
siderable
Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert
Brooke-Popham the new British need nor at present be regarded as
Commander-in-chief. Far East has menacing.
taken up his duties in Singapore, If Japan should decide to push
and substantial reinforcements for southward she might move in one
the army and air force have ar-
rived in Malaya, covering both
Singapore and the Malay penin-
sula
The Japanese know that if
they are ever to make much
headway in their southward
of several directions. She might
try to consolidate her position in
Indo-China. but would almost cer-
tainly meet stern French opposi-
tion.
THAI NOT PRO-JA?
One of the fundamental causes
of the dispute between Thailand
advance they will have to chal-
lenge the mighty fortress and
naval base at Singapore. . was the Thai fear that Japan
The island itself is well - nigh might obtain advance bases in In-
impregnable to attack from the do-China under the pretext of pre-
paring fresh assaults on China s
(Siam) and
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area had been mined so as to
close the approaches to Singa-
pore to shipping from Thai-
land. Inde-C hina China and
Japan except by secret routes
known only to authorized pi-
lots. 1
Britain’s anxiety was increased by
munist now He has a job.
“No sir the wav it looks to me
jobs may be the death of our glor-
report which persisted despite ous. mankind saving movement.”
Japanese denials that Japan sought
-BROOKS PEDEN
Many Laxatives, but
few are Leaders!
Of the hundreds of laxatives sold
a few are But more important, it usually ‘is | of thousands of miles, heavy
best-seller: year an and yea uit both punctual and thorough, when bombers and fighters.
nd helps relieve PACT A GESTURE
- • hes bilious- To judge from angry comments
ir Japanese newspapers the grow-
laxative Rea for its great And-the tonic-laxative" element Ling strength of Singapore has not
and lasting popula are no hard , BLACK-DR AUGHT helps to been overlooked m Tokio
to find once you try it. tone lazy intestini muscles! (Adv ) The Japanese realize, further-
Japan seeks to establish in East
Asia
Even if Japan should change her
mind and contemplate a more ac-
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more, that the strength of the base
at any time is not the maximum
possible. Singapore is well situ-
ated to receive reinforcements
from India and, should a crisis
arise in the east there is no doubt
that further force, would be sent.
Few persons believe Japan’s
alignment with Germany and
Italy in the tripartite pact has
increased the hances of hostilities
in the Far East That pact was a
gesture, and no more
It was intended to obtain for the
Tokio government increased pres-
tige at home to frighten Great
Britain and the Netherlands In-
dies and if possible to Intimidate
the United States. It did not ma-
terially alter the existing situa-
tion. • . •.
Japan# foreign policy in East
Asia, outside China is something
of an enigma Doubtless the grow-
ing strength of the Chinese re-
sistance has much to do with
Tokio’s hesitancy about accepting
any fresh commitments at pres-
ent
Most people assume Indo-China
has byrnow come under the Japa-
nese heel That is a fallacy, as
recent visitors to the French
colony have learned
When France collapsed, Japan
saw her chance to gain a foot-
ing in Indo-China but she badly
bungled her initial steps After
seemingly endless argument Gov-
ernor - General Admiral Decoux
agreed to a settlement worked out
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