RENO, NEVADA.
TUESDAY. JULY 31. 1945
In Two Days
Daring Destroyers
Go to Suruga Gulf
To Bombard Plant
GUAM, July 31. (.P)—Raiding Allied
carrier planes destroyed or damaged 207 Japanese vessels and 430 planes in two
days, Admiral Nimitz announced today as daring U. S. destroyers knifed deep
into Suruga gulf to bombard the enemy's largest aluminum plant.
ATTACKS CONTINUE
The bombardment, 80 miles southwest
of Tokyo, was the seventh against Japan and carried the combined
American-British sea-air attacks into the 22nd consecutive day.
Preliminary reports on
yesterday's aerial sweeps over 400 miles of Honshu island and revised totals on
last Saturday's devastating attack which wrote the end to the imperial navy
showed a total of 52 enemy warships sunk or damaged.
Most of them were crippled or
sent to the bottom at two naval bases—Kure and Maizuru.
12 Jap
Cities
Given
WarningAreas Marked
For Destruction
GUAM, July 31. (AP) — Twelve Japanese cities,
including four previously warned, were given notice tonight by Maj. Gen. Curtis E.
Lemay that they are marked for destruction by American Superfortresses.
TOLD
TO FLEE
"Evacuate these cities
immediately," the commander of the 20th air force warned in
720,000 leaflets dropped from six Superforts on the doomed municipalities. More than 1,300,000 persons live in
the 12 cities.
Thus for the second time within four
days General Lemay gave advance notice to Japan of industrial and military targets where the B-29s
soon will apply the torch.
The eight cities added to the previous
list are Mito, Hachioji, Maebashi Toyama, Nagano, Fukuyama, Otsu and Maizuru, all industrial
and transportation centers on Honshu.
Today's notice also included
Nagaoka and Nishmomiya on Honshu, Hakodate on Hokkaido and Kurume on Kyushu which were given
their first warning last Saturday. Koriyarha on Honshu was also on the first
warning list but was not mentioned today.
Treatment To Be Given Emperor
Complicates Demand for Surrender
Washington, July 31, (AP) Allied councils are divided sharply over the
treatment to be accorded Emperor Hirohito of Japan.
The difference of views, which spreads
among groups within the United States government as well as among other
governments, is understood-here to have been the basic reason why- the Potsdam ultimatum
to Japan omitted all reference to Hirohito or to the monarchyas an institution.
As a result, the way still is
open for the Japanese to try to save their emperor as the Pinnacle of their
government. However. American officials say they are hurting their chances by delaying
inevitable capitulation.
Although Premier Suzuki's
rejection of the Potsdam demand is described here as something of a poker move
in the hope of winning higher stakes, there is at the moment a lessening hope of any
immediate surrender on the part of Tokyo.
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