[Homer_J_Simpson]

Foe Gets Ashore – 2-3
The International Situation – 3
Americans Strike (Peters) * – 4
Nazis’ Bryansk Line Broken by Seizure of Key Rail Point (Brigham) – 5-6
The Enemy Drive Against Singapore (Baldwin) – 8-9
Ford Repudiates Bias against Jews – 9
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques ** – 10-11

* C. Brooks Peters surfaces in Washington. I wondered what became of him since we got his last story filed from Berlin on 9/30/41 – Homer.

** The last line of column 2 on page 11 should read “In Western Cyrenaica enemy ar- . . .”

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/jan42/f12jan42.htm

Rommel planning counteroffensive
Monday, January 12, 1942 www.onwar.com
Rommel and his staff discussing operationsIn North Africa... Rommel adopts his subordinates’ plan to prepare a surprise counteroffensive against the British. Neither the German nor the Italian High Command are informed of the plans. Rommel has continued to receive new tanks during the retreat. The Australian divisions and the British 7th Armored Brigade have been scheduled to leave the area for service in the Far East against Japan.

From London... General Simovic resigns and Professor Yonvanvic becomes Premier of the Yugoslavian Government in exile. He takes Colonel Mihajlovic as Minister for War.

In the Dutch East Indies... After fierce fighting, the Japanese take Tarakan. Tarakan and Manado islands are quickly made into air fields to support the Japanese attack.

In Malaysia... Japanese troop enter Kuala Lumpur.

[BroJoeK]

Headline: "Ford Repudiates Bias against Jews – 9"

So Mr. Ford is here again apologizing for anti-Semitic material published in his name over 15 years earlier.

Fortunately for us today, no public figure is being forced to make similar apologies, for nasty stuff that went out under his name, but he didn't read it, and now disowns it.

Yeh, right, that would never happen today... ;-)