Action Near Java (Peters) – 2
Kupang is Raided – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
Drastic Pay-Price Control Law is Favored by 2 to 1 in Gallup Poll (Gallup) – 4
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 7-8
The News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 9
War at Sea Rises to a New Peak of Intensity (Baldwin) – 10-11
Hitler Exploits Fears of the German People (Axelsson) – 11-12
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 13
The New York Times Magazine
We Can Win the War, IF – (Baldwin) * – 15-19
The Navy’s ‘Cominch’ (Hurd) – 20-22
* The first line on page 18 should be, “. . . and until at least some of them . . .”
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Main British Eastern Fleet eludes Japanese
Sunday, April 5, 1942 www.onwar.com
HMS Cornwall listing after Japanese attack off CeylonIn the Indian Ocean... The Japanese believing the British Fleet to still be in port launch 130 plane attack against Colombo. A small British counterattack is sent against the Japanese fleet, but it is unsuccessful. The Japanese begin scouting for the British ships and the HMS Dorsetshire and Cornwall are found, attacked and sunk, however the main portion of the British Fleet eludes them.
In the Philippines... The Japanese offensive down the Bataan peninsula continues. In fierce fighting, at Mount Samat, the US 21st Division takes heavy losses as the Japanese take the position. Elsewhere, Japanese forces leave Luzon for Cebu Island.
In the North Atlantic... US naval forces (Task Force 39) arrive to reinforce the British naval position at Scapa Flow, with the aircraft carrier, USS Wasp and the battleship, USS Washington. The British are in need the assistance as ships have been drawn for Operation Ironclad which is directed against Madagascar.