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THE PERCIVAL DESPATCHES

Plain Speaking

Speaking By Malaya

By Malaya Commander "Too Much With

Too Little"

London, Feb. 26.

Lt.-Gen. A. E. Percival reported tonight that he was forced to surrender Singapore in 1942, mainly because of weak British air and naval support against overpowering Japanese Invaders. The day-by-day report of the bloody, 10-week..

battle made by the British Army commander in Malaya was published in the official London Gazette tonight, six years after the city's fall. Percival acknowledged "glaring policy weaknesses in arrangements for the Malaya. defence of the Far Eastern bastion that was once thought invulnerable. Nevertheless, he said, the battle was wn by Japancar superiority par ticularly in the air and on the s

Hi 100,000-word despatch, writ ten in 1946 after bis release from a Japanese prison camp, is the latest cial word on one of the most criticised campaigns of the Pacific

In it, he denies, by implication. widely published charges that British military leaders were caught suprepared for Japanese landings in Northern Malaya and their speedy advance through the peninsula's jungles to capture Singapore.

Too Little

little.

of holding the whole

Main Cause

of

AS MOSCOW

SEES IT

Moscow, Feb. 25.

When tha

Alles landed In France on D-Day, they confronted_only_50_or_60 German divisions of the weakest

personnel. and poorly armed," the Com- mmunist newspaper, Trud, declared today.

Tha only serious resis tance tho Allico met throughout the campaign, Trud said, was Field-Mar- shal von Rundstedt's coun- ter-offensive in the Arden- nes and that had no serious consequences because the Red Army launched a great .pffensive sight days earlier at the request of the Alles. Renter.

PIRACY

IN THE BALTIC?

Stockholm, Feb. 26. Suggestions of "piracy in the Baltic" have been made by Swedish news-

following papers

the

mysterious disappear- ance of the crews of two small Swedish merchant ships, missing since they| left Stolpemuende, former German Baltic. port now in Poland, a

air power but that, until adequately no good remaining on the defenweek ago.

ive as we were.

а

"In the autumn of 1940, when h had become apparent that we were mer in a position to send a fleet 10 the Far East, the Home authorities fall down that the defence of Malaya munt depend primarily on air forces could be provided, the land forces must be argngtheord. "As I viewed the situation, the al- The Aftonbladet, the biggest The policy of relying primarily on ternatives were either (A), to coun- paper in Scandinavia, suggest- nir power was in fact never imter-attack immediately to regain coned the Ruastons might have plemented,

tra of the reservoirs and of the seized the ships and taken off, above military food depots and to drive their crews, policy the Army dispositions were back the enemy's artillery with a designed primarily to afford protec view to reducing the damage to the

water supply system, or (B), capitulate

immediately

"In consequence of the

has instructed its embassies in The Swedish Foreign Office

Moscow and Warsaw to ascor-

tion to the bases from which the air forces when available would operate,

"In the event, the army had to Formation commanders were untain whether the seamen, 18 in bear practically the whole weight of the Japanese snack with Hitle air or naval suppon. This was the male cause of deleat."

Percival quoted his own reports dating back to 1937 urging defence preparatune in Northeru Malaya. Throughout were accounts of being Percival uld preparation of his forced to do much with

Eidesginich had been infitenced by Too few troops, too little time for publication of inany accounts of the training troops. Too few aircraft.-fated Malayan campaign often few naval veasels especially "based on false and incomplete in after the hiking of the battleship formation."

Prince

Feritiser

Jap Strength

de

of Wales and the battle Chiller Repulse.

Percival's report said that British furre-United Kingdon, Austration, Giving his estimate of Japan Bufian and Malayan troops-fought | sterngth as opposed to British Kallantly. Bot

they were poorly lending tromps, Percival said reparts rained and in same cars poorly dia that British out-numbered the Jap eiplined to combat jungle tactics at asese were incorrect, erack Japanese soldiers,

He estimated Japanese tronps The grim tale of retreat after resmialled 150,900 in Malaya compared treat down the 40-miles Malayan with 125,000 British troops, many Peninsula 14 Singapure disclosed of whom arrived fate in the what Percival rallel the "unre-paign to replace casualties. Tiability of semi-trained and inex. The Japanese, Percival said, tel [perienced troops in critical siku. alxnic 100 Gret lige aircraft in tis,"

Malaya

compared to 141 British

cam*

and

Not Trained

| planes, most of them outdated.

The Japanese, he reported, advance Traaps • stationed in Malayn for

the jungles, rivers some time before the war

were welled across

swamps of Northern Malaya "much trained and a match for the Jap anese, he said. But there was no tinere rapidly than had been thought for naising reinforcements who are possible." Trive just before and during the Describing the surrender of Singa

Japanese attack,

Last Conference This was his account of the final!

pore after the week-long battle for Malayan military chiefs and urged the island, Percival said the final

decision was made because the Jap siner 1937 that additional troops, aircraft and ships be sent to defend anese had captured the city's water Northern Malays from danger af reservoirs, invasion leading to Singapore's light- Įly defended landward side, Percival }-akt.

"His report added: "It seems, how. Feb. 15, 1942: jever, that the change in the situation "A discussion on the general situa-

swas not as fully appreciated at tien followed. The danger of

was in Malaya, or it water situatión, particularly, as it may have been that lack of re affected the tedian troops and the sources of manpower,' material and vast_civil population, was stressed.. massey maile it impossible to comply There was also the danger of

thome as

stall

conference

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animously of the opinion that in the all, have been picked up and existing circumstances u Counter Dr landed at some Russian or Po tack was impracticable.

lish port. Unanimous

The ships, Iwan and Kinne- kulle, were sailing from Poland tion for the critical water

could see no immediate soluto Swedish porta.

■ituation and decided to capitulate. The other members of the conference concurred ananimously with the decision."

That afternoon, the British com mander was received by Lt.-Gen. in the Ford factory north of the city Yamashita; the Japanese commander, and signed the surrender terms.

Percival, now 10 years old, is re- tired and living in Hertfordshire.

Associated Press,

Egypt Jars Council

On Monday the Kinnekulle was found abandoned near the land of Bornholm with signs of a an explosion in the engine 100m. Lifebelts and wreckage

found bearing the name of Iwan were off Bornholm and Swedish authorities believe she] foundered, possibly after hit- ting a mine-Reuter,

HERRIOT ILL

Paris, Feb. 25.

Mr. Edouard Herriol, the 74- fear-old Radical Elder Stolles- mon and three times French Prime Minister, is suffering from the influenza. ・・

Lake Succees, Feb. 25.

warned Egypt today United Nations Security Coun

He was elected President of

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