DEFEAT OF JAPAN

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 22, 26 July 1945, Page 7

DEFEAT OF JAPAN

.'Gengan.'Stores Helpieg. Rac. 11 a.m. PARIS, July 25. United States ordnance section reports that nearly 1,000,000 tons of German ammunition, which the Allies have captured, will be used to help to heat Japan. 4.t.■■■<!>■■■!•■■{•..■. itnmu .i •iii.iiiiiiiiiiiii.uiiiii.miii only regret is that our ships don't have wheels so that we could chase them inland after we drive them from the coast.'" ■. . " ' ■ : Admiral ■Nimitz has announced that since the 1000-plane raid from American carriers against the naval base at Kure yesterday damaged six warships •—two battleships, one aircraft-carrier, and three cruisers,' naval attacks on japan are continuing. HONSHU BOMBARDED. His latest communique states: "Cruisers and destroyers of the United States 3rd Fleet bombarded the Kushimoto seaplane base., the Shionomisaki airfield and radio station, and other military installations in the vicinity of Kushimoto, at the southernmost tip, of Honshu, early today. '"While approaching the coast for this bombardment the force, which was under the immediate tactical command of Rear-Admiral J. C. Jones, sank a small vessel, probably a picket boat. "British and American planes today carried out attacks on combatant merchant shipping, airfields, and other military targets in the area extending from northern Kyushu through the Inland Sea to Nagoya. "Preliminary reports of the early strikes today show that American aircraft shot down eight enemy, planes, destroyed 11, and damaged 20 on the ground. i"ln the vicinity of Kure the heavy cruiser Tone and 'the light cruiser Oyodo were left burning badly, and two battleships of the Ise class, the heavy cruiser Aoba. and a large air-craft-carrier were damaged. "British aircraft inflicted the following damage in early strikes today: —Twelve aircraft destroyed and 13 damaged on the ground and in the water, a Kobe-type escort aircraftcarrier damaged north of Takamatsu, in Shikoku, two freighters damaged near Suta on the coast of Shikoku, and one small cargo vessel, three luggers, .■and four junks sunk." CONVERTED' FOR PLACES. The battleships Ise and Hyuga, ■■Tvhiah were damaged in the carrier strike against Kure, are 30 years old 32.000-ton vessels, recently converted to semi-carriers with flight decks at the stern. Presumably neither was seaworthy at the time of the attack, since earlier dispatches indicated that only one Japanese capital ship— evidently the Haruna —remained useable after the hit on the Ngato a few days ago. Tlie United States 30th Air Force has reported thai seven industrial larfrets in (ho Osaka and Nagoya area ivsre lies.vity damaged in yesterday's reeord-brca khic Super-Fortress assault, in which C 25 planer, unloaded almost 4000 tons of demolition bombs. One plane was lost. One hundred and eighty of the

| Super-Fortresses landed on Iwo Jima en route for home because of battle damage -or low fuel) The pilots said the flak was the heaviest they had ever seen at Osaka, though the air opposition was almost negligible. ' When aircraft of General MacArthur's Command yesterday made their record raid on the Shanghai area, more-than 300 -planes attacking two aerodromes near the city, and also hitting a Japanese river convoy. One Japanese destroyer and two cargo ships were sunk and a destroyer escort, two sub-chasers, a 2000-ton transport, and six freighters were probably destroyed.