FORCE IN MALAYA
TOTAL OF CAPTIVES ..UNKNOWN-.
LONDON, February 17. No fresh news has been received of events in Singapore or the precise number of troops taken prisoner, One report estimates the number to be nearly, 30,000. y ■
Evacuees reaching- places of safety say that the scene was an inferno.
The landscape was red from the flames of burning oil tanks, and the incessant roar of artillery was heard over a wide area far from the battleground. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1942, Page 5
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162FORCE IN MALAYA Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1942, Page 5
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