Tokyo Adds Detail – 2-3
Chinese Elated at Word of Raids on Japan; Chungking Celebrates; Cheers U.S. Strength (Forman) – 5
War News Summarized – 5
Foe is Hit in Burma (Anderson) – 6-7
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 8-9
The News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 10
Attack on ‘Axis-Line’ Press (Wood) – 11
Editorials – 13-15
The Attack on Japan
A Great Chinese Lady
France Cannon Die
Paul Revere Day
Science and War
On Your Knees
Topics of the Times
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 15
Treasury’s Corporate Tax Proposals Called Unsound (Letter to the Editor) – 16-17
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/apr42/f19apr42.htm
Chinese division lost in Japanese attack
Sunday, April 19, 1942 www.onwar.com
Chinese soldier in BurmaIn Burma... General Alexander confers with his field commanders (British Brigadier General Slim and American Lieutenant General Stilwell). Meanwhile, the Japanese strike at the weak and poorly led Chinese 55th Division, which the Japanese find idly sitting in its bivouacs. The Chinese are attacked from three directions at once and the division disintegrates. Soldiers flee into the hills. The 93rd Chinese Division moves in to help, sees the chaos, and retreats without fighting.
In the Philippines... On Bataan, Japanese resources are overwhelmed by thousands of American and Filipino prisoners who assemble in the town of Balanga.
Awesome news.... heck, we should bomb them occasionally just for the principle of it.