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Japan To Receive
Two Million Tons
Of Bombs A Year
GUAM, June 15—(/P)—Bombs
at the rate of two million tons per
year will begin raining down on
Japan by July first is the program
aimed toward “the complete and
utter destruction” of the enemy,
Gen. Arnold, commander of the
Army Air Force announced today.
The five star general dramatic
# ally disclosed, while making the
announcement, that right then
three thousand tons of bombs
were falling on Osaka, leading in
dustrial city in the Orient from
five hundred twenty Superfort
resses in an incendiary raid mark
ing the first anniversary of B-29
operations against Japan proper.
They struck at Osaka and the
neighboring city of Amagasaki.
The area attacked includes many
machine, tool, and bearing works,
chemical plants and electrical and
textile factories.
' Carrier Saratoga
Receives Seven,
Direct Suicide Hits
* WASHINGTON, June IS —UP)
—The Navy disclosed today that
the famous old aircraft carrier the
Saratoga sustained tremendous
damage in the early stages of the
battle of Iwo Jima, but also stated
triumphantly she is now fully re
paired and back there pitching
again.
, Sev.n direct bomb hit., «m.
from suicide planes, struck the
carrier, causing three hundred fif
teen casualties, which included
one hundred twenty-three killed,
missing, and dead from wounds
one hundred ninety-two wounded.
The Fleet's oldest surviving
carrier, affectionately known to
all hands as "Sara" has twice pre
viously suffered serious damage
from torpedo attacks, but the Iwo
Jima action marked the first time
she had received crippling dam
age from the air.
VOLUNTEER FIREMEN MEET
The Volunteer Firemen held a
meeting Thursday evening.
FIGHTING PLANE FIRE ■■ While another
takes off for Japan, fire fighters of the 7th Fighter Command base1
on Iwo Jima combat flames of a P-51 which crashed taking offj
The plane was a total loss bnt the pilot escaped.
Superforts Blast
Osaka Through
‘Pea Soup’ Fog
GUAM, June 15—</P)—A force
of five hundred twenty Super
fortresses fought weather so thiek
it broke up formations halfway to
Japan and back again, ot unload
three thousand tons of incendiar
ies in what they hoped would be
a knockout blow to Osaka, Japan's
greatest industrial city, and neigh
boring Amagaski.
The bombardiers released the
incendiaries by instruments. The
clouds were so thick they blotted
out any view of the targets.
Resulting fires, Tokyo admitted,
were started “at a number of
points."
Australians Walk
Unopposed Into
Brunei On Borneo
MANILA, June 15—(/P)—Bru
nei the important little port and
capital of North Borneo, Sultanate
of Brunei fell by default to the
Australian Ninth Division Infan
trymen who walked unopposed
into the bomb-flattened town on
Wednesday, was disclosed today.
The town is sixteen miles from
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the pearest landing points when
Squeeze 10,000
Jap Soldiers
On Escarpment
Br LEIF ERICKSON
GUAM, June 15 — <A>) — M»j.
Gen. Bradley’s Ninety-Sixth In
fantry division creaked the center
of the previously outflanked Jap
enese defense line on southern
Okinawa Thursday, capturing the
five hundred foot high Yaeju hill
and pushing south to the summit
of southern Okinawa's highest
peak.
It was gained early yesterday
after a brisk fight. Other divisions
cut in behind both ends of the
rugged escarpment line where, it
is estimated ten thousand Nippon
ese are making their last stand in
an area less than thirteen square
miles.
COMMISSARY PROBLEM
PALAU ISLANDS-^**)—False
teeth and baby nursing bottles
were among freight ferried by
grasshopper planes in the fight for
these islands. They were needed
for natives in the battle area.
the British began the invasion of
Borneo last Sunday, and was oc
cupied after a hot march through
the lush jungles with scanty Jap
anese opposition.
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Air And Navy
Blast Matsuwa
Island In Kuriles
By OLEN CLEMENTS
Aboard a United States De
stroyer in the North Pacific, June
12 (Delayed)—OP)—United States
Naval units of the North Pacific
pounded Japan’s principal central
Kuriles island bastion of Matsuwa
twice in the past twenty-four
hours and long-distance day-light
raids, far from friendly air cover
dumped thousands of pounds of
shells on the sombrero shaped is
land four hundred eighty miles
northeast of the Jap home islands
during the afternoon yesterday
and today.
Rear Admiral J. H. Brown, Jr.,
took a task force of cruisers and
destroyers through heavy seas
close into shore through a pea
soup fog. The destroyer decks
were awash and gun crews dren
ched by the cold seas, as they
fired by instrument at the island
they couldn’t see.
Several thousand shells were
expended in the first twenty min
utes of bombardment. Not a shot
was fired from shore and there
were no signs of enemy planes.
Japanese Retreat One
Hundred Seventy-Five
Miles In Front Of Chinese
CHUNGKING, June 15—f/P>—
The Chinese have announced that
the Chinese forces which pursued
the Japs one hundred seventy-five
miles from Foochow along the
East China coast attacked the
Chekiang province port of Wen
chow.
The Chinese said the Jan garri
son at Wenchow, two hundred
twenty miles south of Shanghai,
on Wu river, already were begin
ning to retreat.
Maj.-Gen. Robert McClure’s
headquarters in Kunming an
nounced the Chinese forces had
recaptured the Kwangsi railway
town os Ishan, forty-three miles
west of the former United States
airbase at Liuchow. The Chinese
had previously been driven from
Ishan on June 11, after holding it
one day.
These are the fourth and fifth
bombardments of the volcanic is
land, used by the enemy as a stag
ing ground in the northern Ku
riles and it is an important air
route stop bewteen Paramushiro
and the home islands.
Allies Capture Von Ribbentrop, Last
Of Top-Rank Nazis, In Hamburg
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Field Marshal Montgomery's
Headquarters in Germany, June
15—<£*)—Nazi Foreign Minister
Von Ribbentrop was captured yes
terday as he slept in the nude in
a Hamburg boarding house and
bringing to a close the most inten
sive manhunt since V-E Day that
Europe has ever had.
Von Ribbentrop understood he
was wanted by the governments
of at least ten nations to stand
trial for war crimes. He is the last
of the top-ranking Nazis known
to be alive, who eluded capture. A
metal can of poison was found
strapped to his body, but he sur
rendered it.
The dandified former cham
pagne salesman, who became the
engineer of Hitler's arrogant for
eign policy has been hiding in
Hamburg since April 30. The man
who imposed his diplomatic will
on Europe did not have a friend
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in all of Germany’s second largest
city to assist him actively in ob
taining a place of refuge.
Von Ribbentrop volunteered the
information that he intended to
hide until the British feeling
about him died down and then at
tempt to save his life in a trial
He went to a wine merchant;
whom he said he had known fbr
twenty-five years, but thd mer
chant shunned him. Von Ribben
trop, using the name of MRiese,**
got lodgings from an unsuspecting
landlady. The same wine mer
chant brought the British Intelli
gence officers there yesterday and
pointed out his erstwhile friend.
By keeping the arrest secret
overnight the British sleuths who
trailed Von Ribbenrop across
much of western Germany, man
aged to arrest his sister today. In
a tearful, hysterical scene she
identified him.