MORE RAIDS ON SINGAPORE

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23537, 15 January 1942, Page 5

MORE RAIDS ON SINGAPORE

Heavy Bombers Over City

BRITISH IN MALAYA FALL BACK (Received January 14, 11 p.m.) (1.R.A.) LONDON, January' 14. The latest Singapore communique makes no reference to the land fighting in Malaya but gives details of the latest Japanese attempts to carry out air raids on Singapore. It says the raids were made by approximately 50 heavy bombers accompanied by 20 naval fighters. The formation was intercepted by British fighters. One enemy aircraft was destroyed for certain, three were probably destroyed, and several others were damaged. Reports received show that the damage was small. Casualties in killed and wounded were about 55. Singapore had an air raid alert this morning, but there are no reports of bombs being dropped. The latest news of the land fighting in Malaya was contained in a Singapore communique issued last night. It reported that the British forces in western Malaya had carried out a further withdrawal. There has been no news of the fighting in Netherlands East Indies territory since it was announced that the Dutch garrison on the island of Tarakan, northeast Borneo, had surrendered after destroying the oil wells and anything else that might have been of use to the enemy. In the Philippines, General MacArthur’s forces on the Bataan peninsula north-west of Manila have had the better of a heavy artillery duel with the Japanese.