PATH OF WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1942, Page 4

PATH OF WAR

AS SEEN IN MALAYA KUALA LUMPUR A DESERTED CITY. GERMAN OFFICERS DIRECTING JAPANESE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) SINGAPORE, January 8. Japanese infiltration increasingly threatens Southern Malaya, from both west and east, said the Resident Officer of Health, 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, volunteers and police. Tours of the streets revealed countless deserted mo-tor-cars, many of which had been machine-gunned. Bomb scars defaced public buildings and demolition workers were still dynamiting tin mines. The health officer had authorised a systematic salvage in the stocks of deserted shops. Otherwise the city was being left intact. The Tokio radio today admitted that British resistance in North Malaya had considerably stiffened and added that the Japanese were also meeting a much stiffer defence in the Selagor 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 the description of these Europeans tallies more closely with Germans than with any other racial type.