FALL OF CORREGIDOR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24911, 9 May 1942, Page 5

FALL OF CORREGIDOR

AMERICAN PRESS COMMENT MANY FACTORS RESPONSIBLE NEW YORK, May 7. Editorials in all papers unanimously praise the glorious stand of the American and Filipino troops in the Philippines, but frankly criticise the shortcomings responsible for the fall of Corregidor. The New York Times says; “ None of us is not guilty for Corregidor—the unimaginative who thought it isn’t our war, and the provincial who couldn’t see beyond the continental shore. From the High Command to the most obscure citizen we stand before a tribunal Whose judges are the Corregidor wounded, captives, and dead;’’ In the New York Times Mr Hainson Baldwin points out the importance- of the Japanese invasion of Mindanao, by which the Japanese captured most of the secret air bases which Allied planes recently used on a longe-range foray.' , The War Department announced that approximately 11,574 soldiers, sailors, marines, and civilians were presumably captured by the Japanese when Corregidor fell •;'.