SUFFER DEFENCE

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

SUFFER DEFENCE

ADMISSION IN TOKIO

(Rec. 12.30 p.m.) SINGAPORE, January 8,

Japanese infiltration increasingly threatens southern Malaya from both west and east, said the Resident Officer, Mr. Heath, in an interview with the Associated press correspondent at Kuala Lumpur on January 7.

The correspondent says Kuala Lumpur is. a dead city apart from the military and volunteers and police. A tour of the streets revealed countless deserted motor-cars, many of which had been machine-gunned.

Bomb scars defaced the public buildings and demolition workers are still dynamiting the tin mines in the district. .

Mr. Heath authorised systematic salvage of the stocks in the deserted shops; otherwise the city was left intact. :

Tokio radio today admitted that British resistance in north Malaya had stiffened considerably, and added that the Japanese were also meeting a much stiffer defence in the Selangor area.

Reports that German staff officers are directing the Japanese campaign in Malaya are now practically confirmed by the fact that two European officers, with the Japanese troops have been shot by Indian troops.

It was impossible to< recover the bodies for identification, but descriptions of these Europeans tally more closely with the Germans than with any other racial type.