SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1945.
War Centers
In Grip ofParalysis
By JOSEPH A. BORS.
I.N. S. Staff Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. July 21.—(INS}
Japan's millions faced the
prospect today of becoming a nation of doomed cave-dwellers as American sea and
air forces spread creeping paralysis .along the enemy's war production nerve
centers and food distribution systems.
Japan's plight was emphasized by two
naval officers who helped aggravate the critical situation in the homeland—Vice
Admiral Mltscher of Task Force 58 fame and Vice Adm. Obrey W. Fitch, who has been
deputy chief of naval operations for airborne divisions.
The two men at a news conference
told reporters the Japs are losing their air' power because of shortages and
that the enemy apparently has not had time to move the industries underground on a large scale.
Presumably the Jap civilians
being evacuated from their rubble strewn cities could Hold out in the hills and
mountains with some food but they obviously cannot.
Adm. Halsey,
Tokyo RadioBoth Silent
GUAM,
July 22 (Sunday).—
(INS)
—American third fleet cruisers that shelled the entrance to Tokyo bay without
opposition last week were disclosed today to have swept Sagami gulf southwest
of the Jap capital without meeting a- single enemy, ship.
The challenging sweep, designed
apparently as an effort to lure Japan's cowering: imperial navy into combat,
was announced by Admiral Nimitz In a belated communique.
By International News Service.
Usually vociferous Radio. Tokyo
was strangely calm Saturday on the subject of war developments.
For more than 36 hours, the voice
of Tokyo has been almost as quiet as the stealthy movements of Admiral
Halsey.
No explanation for Tokyo's
attitude was apparent in the texts of various enemy broadcasts, but it was
evident Tokyo was wondering with apprehension where or when
Halsey would strike again.
There was no indication the Japs had
been able to track down Halsey's Anglo-American armada, now steaming in empire
waters.
Sunday,
July 22,1945
THE CORPUS CHRIST1 CALLER-TIMES 8-D
Japs'
Major Invasion Point of East Asia
By MORRIS .1.
HARRIS
( Former
chief of the Shanghai
Bureau of the AssociatedPress who was repatriated in 1942 from a Japanese prison camp there).
WASHINGTON, July 21, (AP)
General MacArthur's announcements
that American Air Forces are beginning big-time Attacks on Shanghai reveal that
we are out to crack Japan's major invasion point of East Asia.
Shanghia is the outstanding port
through which Tokyo has poured its war machine into China and adjacent areas
and the place where Japan's outstanding property interests on continental Asia
are located.
In striking at Shanghai, American
bombers and fighters are threatening the very root of Japan's position in
"Asia, for Shanghai, to both Chinese and foreigners who have lived there,
is the heart of China.
Prior to the Japanese invasion of
China, Shanghai was the commercial and governmental center of that nation,
although Nanking was the capital. Most government offices were in Shang=h a i
and commercially it was supreme throughout Asia.
British Repulse
Jap Attacks inMyitkyo Sector
Nips, Battling in
Mud, Attempt To
Storm Le Kinzu
CALCUTTA, July 21 (U.P).—
British troops in Burma have
smashed two enemy attempts to seize strongpoints southwest and northwest of
besieged Myitkyo, Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten said today.
About 70 Japanese battling knee deep in mud, attempted to storm into Le
Kinzu, three miles southwest of Myitkyo. They were routed by British Gurkhas,
Mountbatten's report said.
A larger force, armed with light
machine guns and rifles, opened a dawn attack against British held Pado, 48
miles north of Pegu.
After a tierce battle, the enemy withdrew.
Allied patrols then; scoured the area
and killed at least 14 Japanese.
(The Tokyo radio "said that
Japanese troops in the Myitkyo area had "killed or wounded more than 1,000
enemy troops in daring infiltration attacks" since July 9.
Two Allied aircraft also were shot
down and much war equipment captured, the radio said.
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