THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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British Battle Hard for Burma; Lese Rangoon
Mandalay, Burma, Feb. 26 —(UP) British empire forces fought their last-ditch battle for Lower Burma today under smoke clouds raised by fires sweeping Rangoon, the virtually forsaken capital.
Reports from airmen and refugees indicated that the Imperials were swinging northwestward in a long arc to change the north-south battle line to one east and west, running south of Mandalay. Rangoon appeared lost.
American volunteer airmen reported at their headquarters in southwest China that the British had put the torch to Rangoon, and at least one-third of the evacuated capital was ablaze.
New Drive in Thailand
Chinese forces were reported unofficially to be battling a new Japanese drive on the southern Shan states of Burma, north of Chiangmai, in northern Thailand, with the invaders preparing to hurl a second offensive westward from the base.
Evacuates pouring into Mandalay from the southern battle zone said strong Indian and British reinforcements were taking positions south of this city—indicating that the present fighting may be an opening phase of the battle of Burma.
cost of the lower Sittang river he Imperials fought within ten miles of the idle Rangoon-to-Mandalay railroad with the bitter struggle apparently forcing the defenders back slowly.
Burma Road Endangered
Should that defense line fall, the Burma Road would be cut at its southern end and Rangoon, 48 miles south of the railroad junction of Pegu the immediate Japanese objective—would be virtually defenseless
On the jutting neck of Burma between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Martaban, the capital would have to be held by a siege garrison and the chances of reinforcements would be almost nil.
Rangoon itself, with the Burma road cut, would be of greatly diminished military value. Traffic over the railroad to Mandalay already has ceased.
There were indications that both sides were pouring in reinforcement and that armies engaged numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Allied airmen, including Americans were raking the Japanese lines and bombing their bases. Calcutta radio reports said yesterday that the Allies had destroyed 29, possibly 35, of a fleet of planes raiding Rangoon.
Lois Worrel Featured in Fine Arts Senior Recital
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Lois Worrel, fine arts senior andiano student of Prof. H. C. Taylor,was presented last night in the weekly School of Fine Arts seniorecital.
Miss Worrel's program included numbers by Bach, Schumann, Rubstein, and Moszkowski.
Professor Taylor accompanied her on a second piano, playing the orchestral parts.
New Planes Turn Tide In Far East
Washington, Feb. 25 —(UP)— Newly-arrived American army warplanes today were delivering triphammer blows in the battle of Java after destroying since Dec. 7 nearly 300 Japanese planes and at least 24 ships in the Pacific—from Pearl Harbor to the Indian ocean.
War department communiques of the past two days have described a mounting tempo of American aerial attacks against the Japanese in the far Pacific, indicating that both bombers and fighters are reaching the East Indies in steadily increasing numbers.
Latest advices from the Philippines said Gen. Douglas MacArthur's American and Filipino forces, not content to wait in their "fox holes" for the Japanese to launch a new assault, had broken a three-day lull, by going out and picking a fight with the numerically superior enemy.
MacArthur's men struck out from their wire barricades in a series of "uniformly successful" offensive attacks, probably in the nature of patrol thrusts to determine whether the Japanese inactivity was a feint for a surprise move.
That was the only action reported in communiques about the Bataan battlefront since last Sunday which reported activity of the previous 24 hours.
Ping Pong Tourney In Lincoln
The two Union buildings of the respective schools have gone together to purchase a cup to be given to the team that wins the year's play. The cup will be kept by the winner until the next year, when it will go to the new winner. Provisions will be made to engrave the winners name on the cup each year.
Four members of the University ping pong team will leave Saturday morning for Lincoln, where they will meet the Nebraska team in the first of two matches between the schools. The team consists of two men, John Ise, Jr., graduate student, and Ulysses Staebler, college senior, and two women, Sue Corson, college sophomore, and Alta Bingham, education senior.
Dean J. J. Jakosky of the School of Engineering has returned from a trip to the west coast in connection with the consulting work of the naval ordinance laboratory.
The Cornhusker team will come to the Hill for the second match sometime this spring. The team will return from Lincoln Saturday night.
Jakosky Returns From West Coast
The University is making special investigations for the laboratory, Jakosky said, and added that they were of a confidential nature.
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U.S. Submarines Take Heavy Toll On Jap Ships
Allied Headquarters Java, Feb. 26 —(UP)—United States submarines, in a major attack on Japanese invasion fleets, have torpedoed two troop ships, an auxiliary ship and a freighter in the last two days and are believed to have torpedoed a warship, a Netherlands Indies high command communique said today.
One of the American submarine attacked a formidable enemy squadron, and was believed to have torpeded one warship. As it attacked, however, enemy lookouts spotted it, and it was forced to crash dive to safety.
Dutch Drop Bombs
The communique said Netherlands naval forces had bombarded Japanese storage yards near Oosthaven, at the southeastern end of Sumatra opposite Java, starting numerous fires. (Oosthaven is the terminus of the railroad from Palembang, and thus the communique implied that the Japanese had reached the lower end of Sumatra, which is separated by only 20 miles of water from Java.)
Dutch planes shot down a Japanese fighter plane in a raid yesterday on Palembang, chief Japanese base in Sumatra, the communique said, and one Dutch plane failed to return. Reconnaissance planes reported that fires set nine days ago by Dutch demolition squads who destroyed the Palembang oil installations were still burning fiercely.
Today's communique announced that "far superior" Japanese forces had occupied Sinkand in the Pontianak invasion area of western Borneo.
Keep On Fighting
The commander of the Dutch fighting forces in Borneo advised the high command that he would continue to fight. The communique, issued through the Netherlands Indies news agency, reported that the Dutch troops were still fighting fiercely in Celebes. It said it might be assumed that the Japanese were now in possession of Bangka island off Palembang, on the east coast of Sumatra.
Two Japanese bombing planes and two fighters were shot down by Dutch aviators during fierce Japanese attacks on Java objectives, the communique said. The Dust lost two fighter planes. The pilot of one landed safely.
Japanese planes attacked the Soer-abaja naval base and airdromes in west Java, the communique reported. The Soerabaja raid was a heavy one and resulted in the killing of seven civilian and the wounding seriously of 19, but the communique said little material damage was reported.
Baker University beauty queen for this semester was selected in Kansas City last Sunday. Seven contestants were centered by the sororities and clubs at Baker.
Baker Beauty Queen Selected
Ophelia Johnson of Kansas City, was the winner. Runnersup who will serve as maids of honor were Arline Groh of Robinson and Mary Jean Angsten of St. Joseph, Mo.
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Ozark Farmers Plan To Make War Food
Springfield, Mo. — (UP) — Ozark farmers plan to increase their acreage of tomatoes and beans this year to aid in the "food for war" program. The 400 canning plants in the area probably will process $20,000,000 worth of fruits and vegetables, according to W. W. Bancroft, canning company executive.
If the weather is favorable, the 60,000 acres planted to tomatoes in the Ozarks this year should yield 5,000 carloads of canned tomatoes, Bancroft said. This would be three times the amount shipped out last year.
The government recently promised
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Farmers in the area are also expected to harvest a record crop of spinach and green beans for canning.
to buy, through the Surplus Commodities corporation, 30 per cent of the pack of all canners who pay their producers $17.50 a ton for their tomatoes. The government will pay 95 cents for a dozen cans of No. 2 size.
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