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U.S. Fleet Steams To Sea Ready To Attack Enemy

By UNITED PRESS

The United States fleet steamed from Pearl Harbor Sunday after a Japanese dive bomber, torpedo plane and parachute raid on the great American naval and air base, causing heavy loss of life and property damage ina b unproved assault which precipitated a general war on the Pacific.

Reportedly the sound of gunfire was heard off Oahu and gun flses were seen.

The White House said it was unable to confirm reports of an attack on Manila.

Reportedly Hawaiian officials have been expecting the attack for about a week and gave the raiders a warm reception.

SEVERAL PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN

Attacking planes, several of which were reported shot down, clearly bore the insignia of the rising sun.

Hickam field appeared to be the principal objective, but fires were also started on Ford island in the middle of the harbor.

Reportedly 50 planes attacked later and parachute troops were sighted. However, the parachutists were believed handled.

The National Broadcasting Co. said 350 were killed in a direct bomb hit on Hickam field.

The battleship Oklahoma, according to NBC was also reported attacked and set afire in Pearl Harbor.

Governor Joseph Poindexter of Hawaii declared a state of emergency and the islands operated under a prearranged plan.

Meanwhile, at Washington President Roosevelt conferred with the cabinet and then summoned congressional leaders. It was believed Mr. Roosevelt was preparing a messge to a joint session of congress asking a declaration of war-which we expected to pass as soon as asked.

COMPLETE CENSORSHIP ESTABLISHED

The navy established censorship immediately on all outgoing cable and radio messages.

Army and navy posts throughout the nation were mobilized. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Secretary of Navy Frank Knox ordered army and navy men to wear uniforms at all times.

DAMAGE AT PEARL HARBOR

Huge fires were raging at Pearl Harbor at 1:10 this afternoon and five navy vessels appeared to have been destroyed in the air raids.

One ship had turned over on its side.

Fires raging on four other warships appeared to be gaining in intensity and they ahd settled low in the water.

The base itself apparently was extensively damaged in the raids and great clouds of smoke rose above it.

Patrols were scouring the hills above Pearl Harbor for parachute troops reported to have been seen in the vacinity.

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Japan Consul Raided

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. (U.P.)-The Japanese embassy late today started burning secret documents. There was no police protection in front of the embassy.

A dramatic raid on the Japanese consulate this morning by detectives and police caught the staff of the consulate in the act of burning ocuments and records.

A tipoff from one of the four policemen who had been assigned to guard the Nuuanu St. consulate brought seven men headed by Lt. Benjamin Van Kuren, chief of detectives, and Lt. Yoshio Hasegawa to force their way into the consulate ffice where a small fire was burning to destroy documents.

Nagao iKta, consul general, was being interviewed by a Star-Bulletin reporter on the steps behind the consulate office when the car carryiyg the detectives entered the grounds at 12:20.

Lt. Hasegawa rushed up the steps, the men following him, past the consul general and Into the hallway of the consulate office.

Inside the building the smell of burning paper was strong and in a moment the detectives had forced their way into a rear room, completely surprising three consulate staff members who were grouped around a small fire on which were burning records and documents.

Several safes in this room were wide open and apparently the consulate workers were taking out records and burning them as fast as possible.

A police guard stationed at the consulate said it was the smell of burning paper which prompted him to call the detectives.

Two carloads of detectives were dispathced [dispatched] .

When the detectives broke into a back room, they found a smoke filled room with doors and windows tightly locked.

The fire was immediately put out. It was burning on an overturned washtub with buckets of water nearby to extinguish the flames.

Detectives threw water on the burning documents and carefully searhced all consulate personnel, including the consul general. Several were in other rooms.

Throughout the raid, neither the consul general nor his staff resisted, though one of them cussed, evidently resenting the what he believed was rough intrusoin [intrusion] and handling.

Four regular police and provisional guards were sent at 10:30 this morning to guard the consulate, 1748 Nuuanu Ave.

They patrolled outside the consulate grounds, on Nuuanu Ave. and Kuakini St., and also were stationed on the grounds.

One of them remarked after [the] raid that though he suspected "something" was going on inside the consulate office, he did not have authority to brake [break] in.

The raid interrupted an interview in which the consul general urged the Japanese people In the islands "to remain calm and law abiding".

Earlier In the morning, at another interview, he said he had thought the bombing of Honolulu was "maneuvers" by the U. S. forces here.

When informed that there were casualties, he remained unconvinced that the bombing by Japanese planes had actually taken place.

Likewise, Otojiro Okuda, vice consul, expressed surprise and disbelief when told that "this bombings serious."

All Japanese banks were taken over this morning, it was reported at Iolani palace.

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Citation :	Reproduction of the Honolulu Star's 2d Extra Edition, 7 December 1941, John Wallace Gilpin Papers.
Location :	East Carolina Manuscript Collection, Special Collections, Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858 USA
Call Number :	John Wallace Gilpin Papers #833.3.d.    Display Collection Guide

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