r, .-
~~
~
~
.
,
~
u,,,r,11-
~
he l
a
te
t
about
the invasion of the
Philip
ines
tells of n
a
val action
giving
powerful
support to the ground forces that have invaded the
island
o
f
Leyte.
The aircraft carri
e
r squadrons of
the fleet are hurling their planes in unrelenting
attacks
against
Japanese airfields and shipping
lines, to paralyze enemy action against the
f or~es
•F.,,.,...
Th
i
s ties in with a statement made by
General MacArthur, who said that the••• enemy
garrison on Leyte would not be able to receive
reinforcements, because American air
,1
power would
cut its communication lines with the other parts
of the
Philippines.
It's an old story now of how
air power
can isolate an enemy force, especially
one that depends upon supply lines across water.
LEAD_-
2.
Tonight's picture of t
he
invasion ef
~h~
,:,vJ7
~
shows
~e"l'½C~&R
troops driving inland
fro
m
beachheads.
! a ~
The
standard pattern
■ rt
of tro
p
ic
a
1 is 1 and 1 anding s •
..1Hwt--w.-l",...~""'t:_a_.i-...AW-~
'I.
being extended, widened and deepened, with American
jungle
tro9ps
pushing toward their first important
objective --
As
oity-ri Tacloban, capital of Leyte
~
llore specifically
•tst.F?lijM.t♦ ia--CS
the ai
base,,~,..baa
+.he
!Hca
nto»y
◄f
fl:,tng
field-ti,
aeing
wha\-4crn::gcah first ;n
•his
•47'+
All reports emphasize
~ ~ M l 1 !
,ae+--
~
~
Japs taken by surprise, and there was a minimum
I'
of shooting --
save
the shooting done by the America
warships
waioa
~
blasted the landing beaches.t:c
%•••i
/\..
The
g
round
tzz
troops comm
a
nded by General
Krueger incurred only th
e
light
st
of cas alties -
altho gh the going is expected to
become
harder,
l r i ~
s o o n . ~
Qt
last reports
the troops
were advancing against only light resistance --
the landing forces brought by that armada which
General MacArthur has described as the greatest
oceanic invasion force in
aiasz
history.an I ~
,erce
:i•
ae
i-e
+.hrowing iuta-itre-Pitilippin@&-
re-
said
to
number two-hund~ed-and-fifty thousand.
PHILIPPI
E
JAP GENER
L
________
_____
_
,
_____
_
General
MacArthur's antagoni
~
t,
the comman
d
er
op
p
osin
g
hi
in
the Phili
p>
ines,
is~ formidable
Japanese War
Lord
- Field
arshal
Jui
ch
i Terauchi.
That sixty-five
year old militarist is one year
ol
e
r
than
Chrthur, and comes from
a famous
Jap
a
nese
Army family,
son of Count
Terauchi
who
was
an
imp
o
rtant commanding general
in
the Russo-Japanese
war.
zr~~~ab..£.JJI
sorts of high commands, and ha& been closely
associated with Nazi Germany -- having been Japanese
representative at the big Hitler rally in Nuremburg,
just as the European war broke out.
0
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l'
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I,
.
L.t
•
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--
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.
~
r'
hi l
i
~
1
n e
~
p
r o
·
u c e
d
an
o
t
r o
· tho
~ e
dr
n
m
t
ic
turn
s
o
w
u
r.
"
he
....
are
fi
tin
a
a
in
t
t
e
i
ft e
nt
h
ivi
sio
1
o
the
Japanese
rlrmy.
nd what that means can be
best
told b
~
quoting
General
acArthur.
Here~ what he, on the wa
"
•~•tx~•Jxm~xiux••J
to the
inv
a
sion,
told
Unit
e
d
Press
Correspondent
,
~illiam
v.
i kinson:
"
I
am pa
rt
i
t'
u 1 a
r
1
y
an x
i
o us
,
" s ·
·
id
~
·
.!
c
rt h u r
,
to
get
a
t
th
ivision which
is on
Leyte. lt is the
fifteent,
t
he outfit that did
the
dirty work
at
Bataan.
hey hav
been livin°
on
the fat of the land
for
more
than ~wo years," he went
on,
"And
I
b
lieve
they'll be
little
softer
no
w
.
But, soft or not, we'll
et th
m."
.
It
w·
s the
Fifteenth
Japanese
Divi ion
that
overw
he
lmed
the
outnum
ered ~mericans
in the
heroic
but
o
pel
e
defense
of
Bataan, which
ac
rt
h
ur comm nded.
n
it
wa
th
r
'
ift
ee
nth
ivi i
n that
rutalized and
r
e
r
e
r
of
r.
r
i
.
i
re
8
a
It
.i
.
iD
,
,
~-
i
n
V
OU
i
t
·
dt
ti
c
h
h
m
ri
"an
a
r
0
.,
n
i.o
0
t
even
.
nd
n
t
1
v
·
1n
i
'-'
n
r.
0
.
L
"
e
'
the
V
~
i
hm
eric
a1
i'
i
r.
ms
lv
co
fron
e
t,
a
t
s
e
ift
e
nt
i
Vi
1
•
MO
'e.
a-i me
e--i,._g
i.
e-s-s-
Me
G.A
P
t
httti
aae
p
iek"e4-
~et
!>"flSi-ett-+cr:
t!Pl!.aae
e~~
tr-hat gaiig
waQ
there •
.......-8'24-
~~
a.o .. -..
1..e t
/'
w
selected for
t
inv
sion for
la
rt1e
s
g
ic r
ea
n :
and
t
.
presebce of the Fift
enth
ivisi
n 1s
e
ntir
ly
a
matter of ch
a
nce - the kind of
coincidence
that mak
e
s
for
flamin
m
.
lodr..ma.
11e
lin
o
tr
ate
that pointed to
Leyte
was outlined by
en
e
r 1
acA
rthur to Uni
t
ed
ress
4
orres on
ae
nt
uic in on.
"
'
,e h
a
~e," s
a
i d ~
"&.c
i v
eu
co
m lete
su
_
rise, in the
fullest
milit ry
s
ense.
~
~
up
ex
e ted
a
n
attack
on
1n
na
o
or in
t e
or
tne
r
t"
i
p
i
ne
•
1
e
i
r
st ciivisi)ns
ad
been
conce trate
on
i
a
ao
,
n
d
t
h
ir r
e
i
n
orcem
e
s
aa been
en~ there."
ILLJ
r
·•
-
3
----------
e
American
strate
y
0
t
Q/
he ex
lained
,
was
lsey's carrier
p
l ne
attacks
were
hurled
against Luzon in th
#
North,
while
MacArthur's
own
Ai
Forces
concentrated on
Mindanao,
in
the ~outh.
bo
the
Japs
~ ~ : , , invasion
at
either
one
or
the other. ~ M a c A r t h u r ~
struck
place
strai
gh
t at
the
middle -- e+
the
lJ6i8
isl
a
n
d
of
Wli¥&ei&R ~hruat---
s - t • i ~
~
between
the
two main
concentrati~na of Japanese
t
rces. "There
are,"
said
acArthur,
"About
two-h
dred-and-twenty-five
thousand
enemy combat
troops
n
the
fhilippines
.
ur
Leyte
andin
Another intensely
Qramatic phase
of
the
to
which
Philippine .lnv
a
sion
is
the
degre.i('it is
a personal
Machrthur hf air.
~n
that epic
of
valor,
the defense
of
Bataan
,
acJtrthur's personality was f
e
atured --
vivid,
pr
oud,
inclin
d
to the
{i
trionics
of
war
and
_JLLIPl __
_
the
pa e
·
n
t
o
f
t.he
____;1..---
- - - : .
art
hfien
resident
oos
e
v
elt
or ered him out
of
th hopel ss defense
t&Q
of
b
taan,
a
c
arth
u
took itAas part
o
f
a personal
mission as i ned to
~~
~
he mission
of
reconQuering
the
hilippines.
tt
d one of
-'-a
most wi ely
uoted
utterances
GL>t"'9
was~ what
he
said when
he
arrived in
~
W'CJ"'-<
e..,;tL·
L st ni ~t a t ~ Movietonw~~~
tre-.:_---7
-aa1re■8led
~.t·
~ures
to
illustrate
the headline
of the hour
--
the invasion
oft.he
Phi
lippines. In
t.hese
e featured
·
acArthur's Declaration
in
Australia, when he declared:
•1
shall return,"
And he
said some
few
things about the
J
a
ps in the Philippines,
a n ~ ~ e d :
"I
shall r~urn.
•
Pis
sense
of
mission is hinted at
in
a
- -
-
dis at.ch today
·•h
ich
tells
how
~acArthur,sailing in
the Invasion, was
o
ffe
red
a
life belt.
"o
thank
you,",he replied, "I
have
too much
faith in this ship
or th
a
t."
:..;P= __
L
LIJ__
-
5
It
,
a
a
c m lim
e
nt to
the
vessel, a cruiser,
b
ut the
ship'
of i
rs felt th
t
there
was
more than
that in the back of
ac
rthur's mind.
hey
thought
that his refusal of
a
life belt, his disregord
for
ersonal S&f
e
ty,
was
ased on an implicit
b
lief that
it
was
his
destiny to
liberate
the
1-'hilippines,
and
that
nothing could
appen
to prevent it.
Be
couldn't
be kille
until his
hilippine
Mission
had been
fulfilled.
All
of which is the
MacArthur
p
roclamation
radio
message
to the
-------.....;:~
Philippine
eople.
resident
Osmena,
ana accompanying the expediti
every
living defender of Bataan who
got
away.
addressed to
the
~
hilippine
People
these stately
wor
s:
"I
have r
he oroclaimed.
"By
the grace
of
Almi
g
hty God,
our force stands again on
¥hilippine
oil,
soil
cons
e
crated by
the
blood of our
two
Peoples."
n
then he 1ssued
the
call:
"
Ral
l
FOLLO!_gHILlf!:!NES
President Roosevelt this afternoon spoke
high praiae of
u
neral
tz
MacArthur and told soae
things about the planning of the Philippine invasion.
Be said that several plans had been discussed for
■ any
months, and that he had gone over them with
Generai MacArthur and
l ■ a■ zaixli
Admiral Nimitz during
his trip to Hawaii in July. The plan now ,..-into
effect was decided upon af~er the presidential trip.
One
of t
h
strange
things is the way
the
J
ps
continue to
press
their f
a
ntastic c
la
im of
8
great
.Nava
1 V
i ct or
:
•
'l'
h
ey ' re now t.'y i
ng
th i
s
t
o
t
he
I
n v
as ion
of the
Pa
ilippines.
Today Tokio
P
ropag nda took
the
line that
the ~acbrthur
Drive into the
Is
lands is
to hide
the
fact that Admi
r
al
H
alsey's Third Fleet
was destroyed in Battle off
Formosa
- the occasion
when
the
ikado's Fleet appeared, but immediately
retired.
The Tokio
hopper goes on to say that the
Philippine
lnvasion was ordered by
President
Roosevelt
to cover
up
what Tokio calls
•The Formosa
Defeat.•
And
the
Jape
scale the heights of the
fabulous by explaining that it
'ts
all
part of the
a~
~,.ec~.f(~
President's
re -e
.
lee
tion campa-ign"-
•e A11Ni:oana
a ~ _ .
·
.
~
~~
te~---,f·WV"\-&~
~j
lit accustomed to
the
idea
of Candidates emplo• ing all
I
A,
/
sorts of dodges to
hel
their political chances, but
the
Tokio
~
·
heeze is
something
for
t
he
high
r
r aches
of the
O
rienta
l
imagination
the
fresident
of
the
,.
JAP CLAI
----·---
·
-
-
-
nite
~t
tes or
d
ering
an invasion to cover up a
aval def
e
at as a
way of
getting
votes. This is even
more
ima
g
inative than the
okio t
a
le of
the
defeat of
Halsey's Feet.
-
o -
Today the Japs not only stick to their
phony
victory claims, but even em ellish them -- with
a few more
nmerican
~arships
sent to the bottom.
►
T
ese now include eleven aircraft carriers, two
battleships, and three cruisers -- more than half of
Halsey's warships destroyed, and rest crippled.
Admiral Nimitz has,
of
course, announced
that
not one American battleship or aircraft carrier was
touched,
ano
only two medium-size ships were even
damaged
-- cruisers
p
robably.
Yet 1okyo today
ives
us
a
dram tic story
of the destruction of an
Amer1c
a
n
Aircraft
Carrier,
and a
so
the death of a Japanese
hdmira~
The f
a
r
Eastern enemy
has been
lo
ing a lot o
f
Admirals
in
action
and the latest announced
is
h
ar
Admiral Arima
t
&1
of the J
apa
nes
a
v
al
Air
orce.
Accordi
to
Tolrio,
he
flew
in
a bomb
er
a
a1
·
nst
th
~
m r1·c
r..
ns
nd
cored
a
suicide
succe
s. The
okio
adio st
·i
tes:
"Arima
deliberately
cra
s
hed his
o
wn
pl
a
ne
against
a carrier,
insta1tly
sendin
it to
~
he
bottom."
tt,
aybe
th
whole
thing is one of those miracles
- the war
ips
of
H
lsey's Third
ileet
being sunk,
IESTERN
lfillliI
The Americans finally captured A h
ao en --
this afterno n. After one of the most savage of
battle~,..they wiped out the r aaining nest of
z■i
resistance; and tonight Aachen is completely
occupied.
It
is a
city of almost complete ruin,
with
hardly•• one hundred buildings
re ■ aining
intact.
But one of
these is
the
great
cathedral of
Aix-
la-Chapelle -- that famous edifice of the middle ages.
Tonight's dispatches from newspaper men inside of
Aachen picture the venerable cathedral as surrounded
by a nightmare of ruined buildings.
The setting ie
-
one of t:tr. appalling wreckage,Auniversal destruction
with
the cathedral standing
.
almost uninjured.
One of the Cloisters was
a ■ashed
by
an
-
air homb, but this was a new addition to the medieval
architecture -- the cloister only fifty years olda,
and unimportant.
The great octagon, the eight-
aided Roman structure, was hardly damaged at all -
the cathedral of Aix-la-chapelle survivingr-
!ESTERN_U!OHI -
2
But
it tas no miracle
nothing more
supernatural than the accure.Ay of the American
bombing and shelling.
Aerial bombers and land
artillerymen had been instructed tfse every possible
precaution to avoid hitting the Cathedral of
Aix-La-Chapelle
- so
taaous
in the
Charlemagne and the German Emperor~ the Middle
l&I••·
Ages.
LAVA~-
In France today a sentenc
pronounced against -- Laval. That chief of the pro-
Nazi collaborationists who is now in Germany, was
1P
condemned to death
N◄
"in absentia".
li11ilar
sentences
were
pronounced on other French officials who served
the Razis) Htost of . . .
have
taken refuge in
Germany.
Belgrade . . . captured today{ the capital
of Jugoslavia taken
by
Russian tro
o
ps
and Jugoslav
partisans ..
a
whole week
there was savage
fighting in the city, but now thehistoric fortress
7P
~
of Belgrade has been o c c u p i e ~ d .
•
And
at the
same
time,
L\l/
I
Soviet troops today captured.Athe third largest city
in
l"liungary --
\hi&
after a violent tank battle.
The Nazis a n n o ~ ; ~ t Soviet troops have
pushed into East Prussia,
For days
Moscow
has been
silent
while
Berlin has been telling about that
great
Russian offensive
~ -
against the province of the
I'
Junkers~
And
now the Germans relate that the Red
Army has thrust
seven
miles into East Prussia and
has seized a dozen villages and towns.
,
iscu~sinj an articl~
-·
in
a
ist
~
I
,
,,.
y
,r
er
·
n
Sto,¢khollll which tells of
--an
all'f!'i-S
"
oup that
kall
has
been
oi:ganize
-
d in
the
$.redisli
capital.
This group is said to consist uf fugitives
from the
Baltic
states which the Soviets have occupied
-- thirty thousand Baltic fugitives.
They are anti-
Communist and are said to
haYe
formed a political
organization, which includes an exiled government
of Estonia, a phantom government.
The
co11munist newspaper
declar'es that the
anti-~oviet activity is being tolerated by the Swedish
authorities, and goes on to make mention of the
American legation in Stockholm.
The story is that
'
one of
'
'
the llinieters of
the phantom Estonian government has the same name
as an employee of the American legation. The demand
is made of the United States llinieter to
give
an
explanation. Also, there's a further charge that
another member
of
the American Legation has
contributed 11oney to the anti-~oviet organization.
BULL
Secretary of State Cordell Bull is ill
and will soon go to a hospital
fz ■
for a physical
check-up. For the past three
weeks
the Secretary
bas been absent from bia office because of a throat,
irritation, and now the ~ecretary who is aeventy-
three, will be looked over by the doctor• at the
naYal
hospital.
GUAIAM4L4
The government of Guatamala has been
overthrown -- in another Central American revolution.
A dispatcb froa Guataaala .:,.ity states that the revolt
was staged by young officers aided
by
civilians and
students. The inaurrectos used tanks in their
a1aault against the governaent
after
aoae
violent
ifa
fighting.
which they overthrew
The hurricane has turned out to be
■uch
less
of
a demon
of
wind than the last one.
Cuba
and Florida were blasted heavily by the tropical
teapest,
and people along the East Coast
of
the
United States
were
stirred to vivid recollection
of the
big
wind
that raised havoc as far north
as Rew
England
soae weeks ago.
However, this
latest one,
while
it
ca ■•
in lite a lion, is going oat -- well, not exactly
lite a lamb, but
lite
just an ordinary storm.
And now Bugh,
a
few
breezy words
fro ■
1ou.
fEARL.HAj!BOR
The findings of the Navy court
in
v
estigated the responsibility for the Pearl Harbor
disaster will not be made public.
This was announce
tonight by Secretary of the Navy Forreatal, who state
that he has received the report and that its contents
are classified•• by the Navy as •secret• and •top-
secret•.
The report presumably goes a long way in
fixing the reaponsibilit1
hr
the
surprised
the
Jape
were
able to spring on that fateful December Seventh -
and this is a subject of auch public concern. But
some
of
it
is secret and the rest of it is aore
secret.
The
Aray,
too, baa been oondueting its own
investigation of Pearl Barbor responsibility, but
thus far we have had no inkling of the
Army
·
findings -
secret or top-secret.
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