EFFECT OF ALLIED BOMBINGS
8,000,000 Homeless In Reich
(Received May 22, 11.40 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 22. "Eight million Germans are homeless as a result of the Allied bombings,” said the Chief of the United States Army Air Forces, General Arnold, at a Press conference. “However, beating the Germans will be a long, hard job, because they are ‘tough babies.’ . ( “The general impression we have of the Japanese is that they are using second or third-string men. This may not be true when we get into the inner defences, but now they are not showing much fight.” General Arnold said that the construction of Japanese homes might be flimsy, but their factories were well constructed and he believed that the task of reducing them by bombing would be as difficult as in Germany. Tokio official radio announced as a precautionary measure against air-raids that the Government had approved, a plan for speedy decentralization and dispersal of Toklo’s civilian facilities, including the transfer to safer areas of Government offices, hospitals, banks, and various public and private organizations.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 201, 23 May 1944, Page 5
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175EFFECT OF ALLIED BOMBINGS Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 201, 23 May 1944, Page 5
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