Labels:newspaper | text | human face | newsprint | news | man | black and white OCR: PERCIVAL MEMORANDUM TELLS WHY BRITISH LOST, Recalls Defeat CAMPAIGN INMALAYA Reasons Given For Japanese Victory Domel, TOKYO, Dec. 2-The Army Press Section of Imperial Headquarters today released a manuscript written by Licut .- General Arthur Percival, former Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in Malaya, entitled "Reminiscences of the Malayan Campaign." The manuscript which was writ- |Division of the Indian Army, who ten by General Percival at an had no experience whatever In undisclosed war prisoners' camp actual warfare, retreated consi- is In the form of a memorandum derably. Owing to the unexpect- and is divided up into 14 items edly quick defeat, and confusion beginning with British defensive and disorder into which the re- preparations and plans prior . to treating troops were thrown. and the outset of the war and considerable losses in officers and ending with an Item concerning men, as well as equipment, were "reasons for the Japanese victory." |suffered." The tersely worded narrative Furthermore, In view of the growing reveals that the British defeat danger in the centre of Kedals, the resulted from the fast-moving. Kron defence lints were exposed to daring and powerful advance of penetration by the Japanese forces, the Japanese forces. and decided to take the following mca- The manuscript reads as fol- (a) Send the 12th in'antry battalion LIEUT .- GENERAL A. E. PERCIV which, had been kept in reserve under former G.O.C. Malays
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