SOUTHWARD MOVE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1942, Page 5

SOUTHWARD MOVE

Empire Forces In Malaya

LONDON, January 8. Today's Singapore communique reports a further move south by British troops in Malaya and another R.A.F. attack on a Japanese aerodrome. Enemy infantry and tanks maintained their pressure throughout the day on the lower Perak front. At one point enemy tanks succeeded in penetrating1 the British defences. British forces have been withdrawn to the south of the Slim River, a tributary of. the Bernam JRiver, which divides , Perak from Sclangor. They have suffered some losses in guns and transport. • Further south, in tlie Selangor area, there are indications of some enemy infiltration, otherwise the situation remains unchanged. , . In the early hours of this morning earth policy, which, he said, would be R.A.F. planes attacked the enemy- '^Zr^onLl at Singapore, he i occupied aerodrome at bong Kedan, sa id, had given instructions that all in north-west Malaya. A number of stocks of rubber, copper, and oil, and high-explosive and incendiary bombs also mining plants and transport, were were dropped on the target, but *&*£££f»£g. by "«*■ accurate observation ot the results Lord Moyne said that stories about was prevented by low fog. the failure to destroy equipment in ■",, ■_„ ,„ ~ xx ,- • . Penang were being investigated, but Both Houses of Parliament today in- it see med that they had been exagterrupted the recess for a one-day ses- gerated. The destruction had to be sion to discuss the war situation. done in secret without explosives or The chief focal point was the Paci- flr?' w"? h imposed limitations. . .. ~ TT r .•_ , T , All ships had been successfully fie, and in the House of Lords Lord evacuated from Penang, except 60 Moyne, the Colonial Secretary, gave sma n cra ft, not exceeding 75 tons some new details of the scorched- each.