[Homer_J_Simpson]

There is nothing from Baldwin today, possibly because he spent part of yesterday addressing a gathering of the Foreign Policy Association, at the Hotel Astor. Read about that meeting in “Japan’s ‘Mistake’ in Asia Described,” beginning on page 3.

City Held Flanked – 2-3
Drastic U.S. Curbs Backed by Voters (Gallup) – 4
The International Situation – 4
30% Cut in the Use of City Autos Ordered by Mayor to Save Tires – 5
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 6

The News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 7
Australia a Key Base for War in Far East (H. Duncan Hall, first-timer) – 8
The Strategic Battlegrounds of East Asia and the Indies (map) – 9
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 10

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jan42/f11jan42.htm

Japanese invade Dutch East Indies
Sunday, January 11, 1942 www.onwar.com

General Yamashita (right) with his aideIn the Dutch East Indies... Japanese forces begin their invasion. They make landings on Tarakan and Minahassa. The Japanese task force is under the command of Admiral Takahashi and General Yamashita.

In the Pacific... The American carrier Saratoga is severely damaged by Japanese submarine I.6 near Hawaii.