LOSS OF JAVA

Grey River Argus, 27 April 1942, Page 1

LOSS OF JAVA

Lack of Allied Support (Rec. 7.30.) WASHINGTON April 24. Discussing the Battle of Java, Doctor Van Ivic-ok (Lieut.-Governor of the Netherlands Indies) revealed that, there were only forty United States planes operating in uie oattie. Thirty of those were destroyed before the final days fighting, because tney .lacked a. fighter escort. The Japanese he said, unfortunately sank the U.S. aircraft tender ‘•Langley,’’ which was carrying pursuit planes to Java. The British and American and tralian troops in Java, he added, totalled only three thousand men.