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The World Today by shortwave radio Columbia now brings you reports from its foreign correspondents overseas with some rays of the latest world news presented over these stations by Golden Eagle gasoline Go ahead New York the details are not available. They will be in a few minutes the White House is now giving out a statement

The attack apparently was made on all naval and and on naval and military activities on the principal island of Oahu. The President's brief statement was read to reporters by Stephen Early, the President's Secretary. A Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor naturally would mean war.

Such an attack would naturally bring a counter-attack, and hostilities of this kind would naturally mean that the President would ask Congress for a declaration of war. There is no doubt from the temper of Congress that such a declaration would be granted.

This morning Secretary Hull talked with the Secretaries of War and of the Navy. Now the two special Japanese envoys, Admiral Nomura and Special Envoy Caruso, are at the State Department engaged in conference with Secretary of State Hull.

Their appearance at the State Department on this Sunday afternoon emphasizes the gravity of the far eastern situation where hostilities now seem to be actually opening over the whole south pacific even more important than the visit of tokyo's diplomats is this news which comes from pearl harbor and the news which comes from south asia

whatever the diplomats from tokyo or the cabinet in tokyo may be saying there is a conviction in official quarters here that japan has now cast the dot All the bits of information which came to the State Department and the Navy yesterday and today indicated that Japanese transports containing troops were steaming into the Gulf of Thailand.