What happened in the Battle of Guam on 22 June, and how many countries participated in the attack on the US Navy.

On this question, it took Washington a whole day to preliminarily confirm that the main force that attacked the US Navy that day was the Japanese Combined Fleet. Although telegrams sent back from the escaped American warships repeatedly claimed to have seen British torpedo boats flying British flags during the battle, British officials themselves repeatedly denied any involvement in the attack on the U.S. Navy.

However, the British side reported on this naval battle earlier than any other country except Japan.

At half past seven o'clock in the morning of 22 July, when the people of London, England, got up and were accustomed to opening their mailboxes to receive the newspapers of the same morning, they accidentally saw the news of the attack on the Pacific Fleet in the waters off Guam on the front page of several local tabloids.

Some newspapers, when reporting on this naval battle, referred to the side that attacked the US fleet as a fleet of "unknown nationality." Of course, there were also newspapers that took it for granted that, when reporting on this incident, they unceremoniously "played on their own imagination" and openly declared in the newspapers that the combined navies of Britain and Japan had jointly attacked the US Pacific Fleet in the waters off Guam -- although the information provided by the Japanese Embassy in Britain to the London tabloids was the same, the editors-in-chief and editors-in-chief of different tabloids had different manners, some were cautious and cautious, some liked sensationalism, and some did not care about anything for the sake of fame. The same news is described in different ways when it is reported in different newspapers.

At half past seven in the morning, when the newspaper published the incident, the naval battle off Guam was still going on, but it was almost finished. (Note: The time difference between London and Guam is 10 hours)

After this news was published in the newspapers, the whole of London immediately boiled.

8:15 a.m. As the citizens of London began to eat breakfast, the local cable and radio radio stations also broadcast the details of the Battle of Guam at the same time.

British Prime Minister Attlee jumped out of his seat when he heard the report of the Battle of Guam on the radio in Guò.

Last night he and senior officials of the British government did not sleep all night.

Yesterday evening, he suddenly received an urgent telegram from the British Embassy in the United States, which was sent to Guò. It was good news that he knew that the U.S. and Japanese navies had exchanged fierce fire in the Pacific, but the worst thing was that the Americans believed that Britain had also intervened in this sudden outbreak of war.

Although Attlee had received information in advance and had expected the war, he did not expect that the battlefield would be near Guam, let alone that the war would drag the British Empire into the water. Positive headache. The US ambassador to Britain has personally come to his door to question whether the British Government has declared war on the United States.

Then the whole night, the entire top of the British government was turned upside down by this news. The British were busy explaining to the Americans to clear their name, asking the Japanese what was going on, and holding an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss countermeasures.

At two o'clock in the morning (London time), the British received an urgent telegram from Malaya saying that a large number of American planes had bombed the British military base on the island of Kalimantan.

The upper echelons of the British government were then horrified by the news. Hurriedly issued urgent circulars, asking the British troops everywhere to prepare for strategic status.

Suspicious Englishman. At that time, he even frightened himself, believing that the attack on the US Navy in the waters off Guam was simply a double play written and directed by the Americans, and the actual truth was an excuse made by the Americans to take the initiative to attack the British and Japanese fleets.

Throughout the night, both the United States and Britain were affected by a series of chain reactions triggered by the sudden outbreak of war. It's a mess.

He managed to survive until dawn and completed the preliminary collusion in all aspects, while repeatedly explaining and assuring the United States that the Royal Navy was not involved in the attack on the United States Navy. Then the British justified the explanation to the Americans that they had sent planes to attack British bases.

The two sides were arguing about it, but the British media intervened at this critical point in time and stirred it up in the already turbid sewage.

on the radio. It not only reported the news of a fierce battle between the US and Japanese navies in the Pacific Ocean, but also reported the news of the bombing of British bases by US planes.

Asia and London are separated by half a world, and it has only been more than ten hours since the outbreak of the war, and the radio has reported it in such a timely manner, what is going on? Not to mention the morning newspaper that morning, the front pages of several tabloids were full of news about this.

Seeing this, Attlee jumped on the spot.

Whether it is a newspaper or a radio broadcast, these practitioners are all "moldy people" who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic. In wartime, there is official press control, but in peacetime, they are simply lawless. The "abnormal" channel got such a big news, and the DJ hosts of their respective radio stations began to play themselves "according to their imagination" that morning.

Some radio hosts, when reporting on the incident, were quite cautious, claiming that it was "a fierce conflict at sea between a warship of unknown nationality and the US Pacific Fleet, and then at the end of the analysis, commenting that this fleet of unknown nationality is likely to be the Japanese Navy, and then pretending to say: As for whether the Royal Navy, which has excellent relations with the Japanese Navy, participated in this operation, it is not yet possible to confirm Yunyun." ”

The stupid announcer on the radio station, who was playing a big game of three hundred taels of silver here, took the initiative to pour this shit on the British head, and the Prime Minister Attlee couldn't shake the phone and asked the police to block the station.

But there were even more deadly, so dead that Attlee wanted to capture him and tie him to the 406mm guns of the George V-class battleships for execution.

Some radio announcers simply used their imagination to openly analyze to their listeners on the radio that the "unknown fleet" that took part in the attack on the US Navy was most likely the Anglo-Japanese combined fleet.

"Bastard, asshole, asshole! Tell those bastards to shut up for me! ”

Listening to the contents of these radio broadcasts that were "eardrums" for the sake of "eardrums" and did not hesitate to "talk nonsense" to forcibly drag the British Empire into a dung pit, Prime Minister Attlee went on the spot, called his secretary, shook the phone violently, and ordered the people in the news management office to act quickly, and told the radio announcers who were "cheating on their fathers" to shut up quickly.

The British were terrified by the dung of war poured on their heads, and they were busy explaining to the Americans that "I am innocent" wolf bèi. And the Americans on the other side of the Atlantic, at this time, the whole country, from the president, down to the ordinary people, is like a cuckold man who has just seen his wife and people, and his mother has been taken by **, and the whole country has gone on a collective rampage.

On 22 June, the American authorities first sealed the Japanese Embassy in the United States, and at the same time sent people to surround the British Embassy in the United States. And the reaction of the people was just as violent.

On 22 June, news of the attack on the Pacific Fleet broke, and rumors continued to emerge in the United States.

The situation of the war on the front line is not known in the United States for the time being, but the telegrams from Britain and Japan still gave the Americans a way to understand the situation of the battle ahead.

The British side broadcast on the radio, in order to seek an eyeball effect, they desperately picked up a lot of feces and poured it on their heads, while the Japanese side did the first day of the new year, simply broke the can, and even did the fifteenth, and directly broadcast to the whole country "on the spot" to report the battle situation on the front line. There are quite a few Americans stationed in Japan, and many of them were shocked when they heard the broadcast, and some people even went to the local telegraph office as soon as possible to send the contents of the broadcast back to China.

In order to muddy the waters even more, in the process, telegraph offices in various parts of Japan also received instructions from above, making it easier for domestic "white-skinned ghost animals" to transmit news and information to the United States. Even the Japanese authorities themselves have sent people to pretend to be "American patriots in Japan" and take the initiative to send reports to the US domestic media about the war situation in the Pacific that "themselves" have heard in Japan, and to relay the specific situation of the war with the "mouth of a third party."

In order to pour more on the British, whether it was the official coverage of the war or the "American patriots in Japan", the people who were actually Japanese agents played word games when they spread the news to the outside world.

When the Japanese official reported on the incident, it was only in the process of reporting that it "intentionally or unintentionally" "entrained" the vague fact that "a torpedo boat from the British was charging and firing torpedoes at the battleship Washington," which was easily misunderstood.

And those American patriots stationed in Japan" simply told the American media or American relatives that the British were also involved in the attack on the Pacific Fleet in Japanese reports.

Rumors begin with rumors with ulterior motives, as well as people's self-imagination and brain supplementation.

Both Americans and British, misled by people with ulterior motives, began to "make up" their own minds to receive news information.

After countless people's "brain supplements", from 21 June (the reason for the time difference, some American time is 21 June) to 22 June, both the British and the Americans believed in the fact that "the British and Japanese fleets united to attack the US Pacific Fleet."

On the morning of June 22, when the American bell also arrived, countless angry Americans surrounded the British and Japanese embassies in the United States, and although the two places had been sealed off by the military, the angry Americans still smashed the outer walls and glass of the two embassies with stones and ink bottles. (To be continued......)

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