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Belce -> RE: Belce vs Falcon, Reports from the Front (11/10/2004 6:52:06 AM)
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The light cruiser Nagara was reported hit by the USN Perch with a torpedo and is currently heavily damaged and on fire several days from a safe port. Her escorts managed a couple of successful depth charge attacks and now the Perch returns to port for some relief from flooding damage.
Admiral Kimmel has told reporters that after the Pearl Harbor attacks, that "carriers still have to prove themselves as a viable weapon against battleships, truly the battleship still rules the waves."
An unconfirmed report from Hong Kong suggests that Canadian soldiers are tieing down Japanese POW's to the outside of their bunkers, this just after reports of Canadian wounded being killed in their hospital beds by Japanese soldiers. Reporters have been barred from the Canadian sector and confirmation is not possible.
Over cocktails, Gen MacAurther reported that base units at Vigan, Aparri and Legaspi successfully disengaged from the Japanese and retreated in good order to their pre-planned fallback positions. "Thoses boys did a good job holding as long as they did and could have done longer too, the Japo has paid dearly for those beaches and will pay even more before this war is done, I will only leave the Phillipines as a free man or dead, mark my words."
In Singapore, the British commander reports that Khota Bharu still holds well and Hudosns and Blenhiems successfully struck a Japanese battleship, "we are really proud and chuffed out over that hit, have been trying for sometime it seems to get one, I can tell you all the boys here in Malaya are happy to hear that. They press really hard, but like an egg in the right spot, we are hard to crush, that is how I would describe the entire Malay defense force."
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