[Homer_J_Simpson]

Many Ships Sunk (Trussell) – 2-3
Singapore’s Guns Launch Defense (Sgt. Fitchett) – 3-4
The War Summarized – 3
Test Seen Soon of Red Strength (Archambault) – 4-5
Manila Bay Forts Destroy Assembled Troops, Barges – 5-6
Iraqi War on Axis Indicated by Nuri (Sulzberger) – 6
The Gains by the Japanese (Baldwin – 7-8
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 9-10

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/feb42/f02feb42.htm

Egyptian King an Axis sympathizer
Monday, February 2, 1942 www.onwar.com

In Egypt... The Cabinet resigns after a dispute with King Farouk regarding his pro-Axis sympathies.

In the Dutch East Indies... Japanese forces overcome Dutch and Australian forces on Amboina Island.

In London... The British Naval Staff reports that the German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst will probably attempt to leave Brest, in occupied France, and pass up the English Channel through the Straits of Dover.