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... SINGAPORE fall of Singapore has not been unexpected. Confirmation of the Japanese claim that our forces surrendered yesterday afternoon probably only matter of time. Nevertheless the realisation of our worst fears does nothing to soften the blow or to ...
... MEN TAKEN SINGAPORE aerpss the island. This ran from the Tanglin barracks to naval base, and was four and a half miles from the centre of Singapore City. It is the strongest natural line to be found in the whole of the island. Some of the evacuees who ...
... SINGAPORE SOLD FOR £13*500 SINGAPORE has been a British possession since 1824, when Sir Stamford Raffles, clerk in the East India Company, persuaded the Government to buy it for £13,500 from the Sultan of Johore. ...
... just reached this country and is probably the most recent picture taken of Singapore. Arrow points pill-bo\,” one of the defence measures, erected in Raffles Place, Singapore. ...
... lustily.” Forces in Malaya told the matched into the fort the The claim that rail communi- Singapore correspondent of the previous afternoon. cation between Singapore and Jap newspaper Nichi Ntchi. The completeness of this Johore Bahru, on the main- Lieut ...
... price 17/6 V Last Hours Of Singapore Figh Continued from Page One artillery is continually i the Johore Causeway Japanese have to carry 011 stant repaii-s.” ti The German radio, Jap reports, said:—“ in the City of Singapore creasing in violence. Supported ...
... FILM SHOW DURING BOMBARDMENT CIVILIANS in Singapore, especially the native population, stood up very well indee'd to the bombardment. Shops remained open unless there was very -heavy shelling or air raids. All cinemas except one were requisitioned by ...
... c* M ' Singapore Commander's Family Mrs. Tercival with her live-year-old son James, seen at their Hertfordshire home yesterday. She is the wife of Lieut.-General Percival, who had to sign the terms of surrender at Singapore. AND MAIL, Tuesday, February ...
... SINGAPORE LOSSES Japs Claim .>>.ooo Prisoners From THE MILITARY MAN V O official figures are yet available about the number of British prisoners in Japanese hands either as a result of the fighting in Malaya or the capitulation at Singapore itself ' The ...
... THEIR HELPLESSNESS, AND CHINES! TROOPS WHO WENT INTO THI BATTLE FOR SINGAPORE ARMED WITH NOTHING MORE THAN SHOTGUNS, WERE AMONG THK TROOPS I SAW ON MY LAST VISIT TO THE FRONT IN SINGAPORE WRITES HAROLD GUARD, B.U.P. WAR CORRESPONDENT, NOW IN BATAVIA. The ...
... obvious explanation. The small force ther denied, through distance, any help by land, air—but it was not so with Singapore. Why then was Singapore lost, and t easily? One answer is that it was the old, old —lack of adequate air support. And the can no doubt ...
... Curtin yesterday summed up Australia’s reaction to the loss of Singapore in these words: The fall of Singapore is Australia’s Dunkirk. Dunkirk began the Battle for Britain and Singapore begins the Battle for Australia. its issue depends not merely the ...