The Sandusky
REGISTER STAR-NEWS
SANDUSKY,
OHIO, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1945
NIPPON
LOSES
4
OIL PLANTS
UNDER
BLASTS
American
Bombers Over
Jap
Islands and Homeland
Wreaking
Wide Destruction.
GUAM.
May 18 (UP) —
A m e r
i c a n planes have wrecked four of Japan's biggest
oil supply plants and a hitherto unknown aircraft assembly works,
it was disclosed ' today.
The 21st Bomber command announced
that 400 B-29s had "rendered inoperative" the oil centers in attacks
on southern Japan-May 10.
A "50 percent knockout
blow against the new Kumamoto aircraft assembly plant in
north central Kyushu by carrier planes last Monday was revealed in a
delayed dispatch from a Task Force off Japan.
Detailed results of the second
American B-29 fire raid in three
days on Nagoya yesterday awaited reconnaissance
photographs. Returning crewmen said all southern Nagoya. including the
giant Mitsubishi aircraft works and the dock area, was in flames when
they left.
The Bomber Command said that
B-29s which hit Qshima, |a small island off southwest Honshu, on
May 10 destroyed all but five of the 65 oil storage tanks
there.
Japs
Battle
Furiously--
Yanks
Push
MANILA. May 18 (UP) —
American troops on Mindanao today
closed in on Valencia and its important two-strip airfield after a surge
of six miles along the Sayre Highway.
A communiqué which gave the 31st
Division's position as of Wednesday put the leading elements in the outskirts
of Valencia and only two miles from the airdrome To the north the 40th Division
met stiff opposition from Japanese artillery and mortar positions in the
Mangina Canyon.
The two Divisions were 31 airline
miles, or 45 miles along the winding Sayre Highway, from a junction which would
split Mindanao lengthwise.
On Luzon, seasonal rains
continued to hamper American advances but the battle for IPO Dam appeared
nearing a close. The 43rd Division continued closing
in on a Japanese force trapped in
the Dam area, northeast of Manila.
WORLD
PARLEY
REACHES
TEST
VOTING
STAGE
Waiting
for Moscow Attitude
of
Gromyko May Be
Ignored
By Other Conferring
World
Delegates.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 18 (AP)—The
outspoken opposition of many small nations to the Big-Power plan for a veto
control of future peace-keeping machinery
today nears a United Nations conference
test vote.
It appears possible that the United
States, Russia, China, Britain and France may accept some modification of the
veto where peaceful settlement of disputes
is concerned although Russia could
block this. They all stand firmly on the proposal that no force should be used
against any nation except when all five
agree.
Prospects are that on a showdown the
Powers can put over the voting formula as they want it with the argument that
unless they stick together on great future
international
issues no peace-keeping league
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