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Over the Wire

Gallant Singapore Defenders Thunder, "We Shall Win"

By United Press, February 13, 1942

LONDON--Singapore flashed to the world by radio today the defiant war cry, "we shall win" but here the great base, sheltering 750,000 persons, already was written off as lost and with it the greatest symbol of white supremacy of the Far East.

(The Tokyo radio said--"Singapore City reverted to its role of frontier down in the final phase of the Malayan campaign. Its streets ran with blood and its tropical calm was shattered by the travelling roar of rifle, machine gun and artillery fire as Japanese forces ran the British defenders out of the city in desperate street fighting.