MANILA BOMBED

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21599, 9 December 1941, Page 6

MANILA BOMBED

AMERICANS KILLED

MORE JAPANESE RAIDS

GUAM SET ON FIRE

(United Press Assn.—CTec. Te!. Copyright)

(Received Dec. 9. 3.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 8

The N.B.C. radio station at Manila says the Japanese are bombarding the town. According to the Mania correspondent of the United Press approximately 200 persons, ,-of whom 60 were Americans, were killed today in a Japanese air raid on Iba, on the west coast of Luzon.

The Japanese radio at Taihoku broadcast that Japanese w arships have surrounded Guam. All the big buildings have been set on fire. Mr Roosevelt Cheered Mr Roosevelt has signed the declaration of war against Japan. The House of Representatives and the Senate tumultuously cheered Mr Roosevelt’s declaration, and there were immediate cries of “Vote! Vote!” at the end of the speech. The Senate acted with unprecedented swiftness and the House quickly followed suit. Salvador has declared war against Japan. The Cuban Cabinet has decided to ask Congress to declare war against Japan. President Vargas said the Brazilian Cabinet has agreed to give absolute solidarity to the United States. Pledges of Loyalty Americans accepted Japan’s war today with outpouring pledges of unity and loyalty. Japan’s sudden attack has virtually wiped out the lines between supporters and opponents of the Roosevelt administration.

Message after message has reached White House from persons, high and low, offering to do what they could. Senator Vandenberg, a leading isolationist, stated: “I have fought every trend leading to war, but when war comes to us I stand for the swiftest and most invincible answer. The unprovoked Japanese attack is a brutal disclosure, which violates every element of civilised society.”

Mr William Green, president of the A.F.L., today appealed for the end of the strikes in the defence industries and called on the workers to produce as workers in no other country ever produced and keep steadfastly on the job until victory and final peace are won. Lend and Lease The Navy and the Maritime Commission are ready to begin arming all merchantmen in the Pacific and start convoys to keep lend and lease supplies flowing. Officials said little appreciable change could be expected in the Pacific shipping operations.

American merchantmen con

voyed by the Navy would blast their way through any Japanese

offensive.

The necessity of speeding the flow of strategic materials from Australia, the Indies and elsewhere to the Far East and replenishing the supplies to American armed forces at Pacific bases had resulted in plans to induct many more merchantmen into the Asiatic and Far Eastern trades.

The German radio quoted a report from Tokio that Japanese warships had captured seven United States merchantmen in the Pacific.

The Japanese High Command announced that the United States minecarrier Penguin and four United cargo ships had been sunk off Guam. Action by Free French

The South African Government is completing formalities antecedent to declaring war on Japan. The French National Committee in London has decided that a state of war existed between all French territories and French land, naval and air forces and Japan.

The Paris radio says the Japanese High Command claims that 40 American planes have been shot down in combat, in addition to 50 destroyed at an airfield during the attacks on the Philippines. SINGAPORE, Dec. 8 The city was blacked out tonight. There were intermittent alarms during the day, when odd Japanese bombers attempted to reach Singapore but were driven off.