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11 "Weather Forecast Considerable cloudiness, warm and humid today, followed by showers. Yesterday's temperatures: Highest 85; lowest, 73; mean, 79 21 6.00 A. M. Rrlstered United State Patent Office PAID CIRCULATION JULY nTO 365,343 No. 76-F BALTIMORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1945 Entered seeond-cHis matter 7ftrip 1 22 Pages 3 Cents NEW YORKERS REDS GAIN 28 MILES IN BIG HARBIN DRIVE Invasion Of Jap-Held Southern Half Of Sakha Washington, Tuesday, Aug.

14 1 6-29'S RESUME ATTACKS WITH STRONG FORCES ON JAPAN'S HOME ISLANDS Railroad Yards On Line Supplying Tokyo First Target Of Daylight Raid Marking 1 New Phase Of Campaign 5 Guam, Tuesday, Aug. 14 () Superfortresses resumed the American assault on Japan at noon today in a maximum ffort which is still continuing and could be' the greatest of the entire war. The first announced targets were he Marifu railway yards, on Honshu 14 miles southwest of Hiroshima, and (AP)-The Federal Communications Commission monitored today a Tokyo radio broadcast saying "the'j text of an imperial message accept- ing the Potsdam proclamations will he forthcoming soon." This broadcast was received at The Lastj Long Mile? A timetable of recent historic events showing dates, time (E.W.T.) and the elapsed time between the steps that may lead to the end of war in the Pacific: July 26 President Truman announced the Potsdam ulti-i matum promising "complete devastatidn" of Japan unless surrender is offered. August 6 9.15 A.M. (Ten Days Later) First atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.

August A.M. (39 Hours Later) Russia enters war against Japan and invades Manchuria and Korea. August 912.15 P.M." (36 Hours Later) Second atomic bomb falls on Nagasaki. August 10 7.42 A.M. (19 Hours Later) Japanese radio broadcasts announcement that Japan is ready to ask for peace.

August 106.45 P.M. (11 Hours Later) Japanese peace proposal, offering peace but asking that Emperor Hirohito retain his prerogatives, is officially received in Washington. August 11 10.30 A.M. (16 Hours Later) Allies announce they will accept Japan's peace offer but that Hirohito must be under orders of Allied supreme commander. Official Allied1 reply is handed to Swiss Minister in Washington for transmission to Japan.

August 114.05 P.M. (6 Hours Later) Official Allied reply is received by Swiss Government in Geneva. August 114.25 P.M. (20 Minutes Later) Swiss Government hands the Allied reply to the Japanese Minister there for transmission to Tokyo. August 12 Sometime During the Night) A Japanese plane attacks and hits a major American warship with an aerial torpedo at Okinawa.

1 August 139.04 A.M. (41 Hours After Reply Had Been Handed to Japanese Minister in Geneva) The Japanese radio announces that the official Allied surrender reply has been received "today." August 14 1.50 A.M. The Japanese radio announces that "the text of an imperial message accepting the Potsdam proclamations will be forthcoming soon." PACIFIC WAR TEMPO RISES Both Allies And, Japs Strike With Renewed Vigor 1.49 A.M. (Eastern war time) and more than an hour later the "im- perial message" still was not forth- coming. i New York, Tuesday, Aug.

14 (AP)-The Domei news agency said today in a Tokyo broadcast recorded by the FCC that "there probably will be something important" at 9 o'clock tonight (8 A.M. Eastern war time). i At the same time, however, FCC reported, another Domei transmitter said there would be "something important" at 10 P.M. (9 A.M. EWT).

Both transmissions were directed in Japanese to occupied Asia and were recorded at 3 A.M. CHINESE IN FEAR Guam, Tuesday, 14 (JP) The communications room of Pacific Fleet headquarters flashed word over the Guam radio today that the Tokyo radio had reported "an imperial message accepting the Potsdam proclamation (for Japan's surrender) is forthcoming There was no announcement where the broadcast was picked up. Waves of cheering were heard as the Guam radio broke into a regular broadcast to make the announce- 4 ment at 3.58 P.M. (Guam time.) A There was no official announcement from Guam PARADING IN TIMES SQUARE Crowd Sings, Ticker Tape Showers -Down 0n Word From Tokyo New York, Tuesday, Aug. 14 (JP).

Hilarious, singing crowds formed impromptu parades in Times Square early today when they learned that the Tokyo radio said "an imperial message accepting the Potsdam proclamations will be forthcoming soon." Windows opened in darkened buildings and ticker tape came floating down as girls shouted and cheered and turned to kiss the nearest soldiers and sailors. "All Over, Isn't It?" "It's all over, isn't it?" they said. Automobiles drew up to the Curbs with radios blaring the crowds could hear the news, and were quickly covered with swarms of laughing, wise-cracking cele brants. The crowd roared patriotic songs and competing factions screamed "Hail, Hail the Gang All Here" and the Marine hymn. Soldiers clambered on top of subway marquees to pose for photographers.

Two Injured In Crush Two. women, injured slightly in the crush, were taken to a hospital. Chinatown and "Little Italy" in lower Manhattan were awakened by a parade of honking automo biles. Children woke first and ran into the streets, followed by their parents who lit skyrockets, firecrack ers and blew, bugles. Cars shot through the narrow.

ctowded streets passing red lights unmolested by police. San Francisco Crowds In Wild Demonstration San Francisco, Tuesday, Aug. 14 (piShouting, cheering crowds surged into the streets here to night, touching off a wild, spontane ous celebration as wora ot tne Tokyo surrender broadcast spread Sailors and soldiers cilmbed 1o the top of trolley and cable cars and clanged the cars' gongs as they slowly made their way through the crowds. Extras On Streets By midnight extras were on the streets with deep black headlines. PeoDle were pausing to ask "is it then noisily rushing on Confetti was being thrown and horns blown.

Boisterous celebrants pushed parked automobiles onto sidewalks. A eroup of sailors tried to over turn powel street cable car. They put another on a turntable and sput it around and around. San Francisco was ready to believe the war was overt "If it isn't over now it soon will be," a bluejacket called across mar ket street. "Let's celebrate." The milling crowd cheered.

Troops Cease chang, and Sinkan, 70 miles south. It was believed possible that rem nants of an estimated 20,000 Japa nese troops pulling out from South ern Kiangsi had reached Manchang, Headquarters Moved Up Meanwhile, a Central News Agency dispatch said Chinese Army headquarters in Kumming had been moved forward 410 miles to Liuchow in Kwangsi province and a branch established at Yung-ning (Manning) "to facilitate the direction of military Northeast of Liuchow Chinese troops were intensifying their threat to the former American air- base city of Lingling following the capture of Chuanhsien, 38 miles southwest of the Hunan province air center. An American communique said the 10th Air Force, in a series of operations since last Friday, had hammered enemy troop concentra tions, warehouses and bridges, and had gone' to the aid of Chinese fighters battling for possession of Shaoyang (Paoking). 65 miles north of Lingling. Japs Battling In Burma Calcutta, Aug.

13 (JP) Remnants of Japanese forces trapped in the lower Sittang River sector, norm east of Pegu, continue to offer re sistance, a southeast Asia command communique said today. By PHILIP S. HEISLER ISunpapers Staff Correspondent! Washington, Aug. 13 While the world capitals waited tensely for the Japanese answer to Allied peace terms, bitter fighting has flared up with renewed vigor and growing intensity throughout the Pacific Iwar zones. Action reports received at the War Department from the scattered Pacific battlefronts today did not read like reports that would be expected in the closing minutes of a war.

Fighting not only has continued unabated but both the Japanese and Allied forces have increased the intensity of their blows since Japan first announced last week that she was ready to quit. Within the last 56 hours, planes of the United States Far Eastern Air Force, under Gen. George C. Kenney, have carried out their heaviest schedule of attacks and bombing missions since the start of the war. Force's Busiest Days The day after the Jap offer to sur render was broadcast, the Far East ern Air orce sent em sorties against the Japanese.

The following day they flew 522 sorties the busiest days the FEAF has ever had. At the same time. Admiral Hal sey 3a leet attacKea tne jap anese homeland with the fuU pow er of its more than 1,500 planes and made 1,364 sorties against Japan in one day. Planes of the FEAF attacked in dustrial plants, and airfields throughout southern Honshu. Kyu shu and Korea while Halsey's naval airmen carrying new record loads of bombs hit farther north on the main island of Honshu.

Jap Air Force Strikes Back And while Japan was talking of peace, her air force struck back with renewed and unusual fury. Although the enemy did not once make a serious or determined counterattack on Admiral Halsey's 3d Fleet when it bombed and bombarded the Japanese mainland from one end to the other three weeks ago, the Japs today were re- (Continued on Page 3, Column 2) OF CIVIL STRIFE Chungking-Yenan War Over Liberated Area Possible By PHILIP POTTER ISunpapers War Correspondent Chungking, Aug. 12 By Radio Delayed A sharpening of the struggle for power between the Kuomintang and the Communists of Yenan was expected today by many observers in China to follow the end of eight long years of war with Japan. Even the prospect of an out break of civil war was not dis counted by these persons. They fear withdrawal of the Japa nese, who have held the east coast of China since the very beginning of tne invasion, may bring on a race by troops of both the Central Government, headed by Chiang Kai-shek, and the Commu nist government in North China to occupy liberated territory, espe cially in the Shanghai area.

War Lords Build Power Such a movement, by armies which throughout the war with Japan have sparred with each other in North China, might well lead to a collision, it is believed here, resulting possibly in a civil conflict. That the end of the war with Japan does not end the difficulties with which Chiang has been, con fronted in his efforts to bring unity to China is evident. In addition to the possibility of an armed struggle with the Reds for control of the northeastern the Central Government may have to (Continued on Page 3, Column 4) Some Japanese i concerning effects of the Domei peace broadcast, or what effect it might have on movements of Admiral Halsey's fleet. However, Fleet Headquarters censorship i passed the sentence "it was believed that the fleet would head for Japanese ports shortly." This might have been based on plans prepared in advance for fleet movement if the enemy surrendered. New York, Tuesday, Aug.

14 (fly-The Tokyo radio. lin Island Is Reported London, Aug. 13 (P) Russian armored columns crashed up to 28 miles through Japanese defenses in Manchuria today in a five-pronged drive toward Harbin, while Tokyo reported a Soviet in vasion of Japanase territory lying only 30 miles from the enemy homeland. Japanese broadcasts said Rus sian marines had swarmed ashore on strategic Karafuto, Japanese-owned southern half of Sakhalin Island, north of Japan proper, but there was no immediate confirma tion from the Soviet high com mand. Moscow's war bulletin said three Russian armies, advancing into the heart of Manchuria, had seized at least 22 Japanese strongholds as they swept toward the arsenal city of Harbin from the north west, north, northeast and east.

Khangan Range Passed On the west, Moscow revealed, Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Trans-Baikal Army crossed the great Khangan Mountain range and captured Solun and Wangyehmiao, 268 and 215 miles west of Harbin. Other forces swept down the Chinese eastern railroad and burst into Mientuho, 350 miles northwest of Harbin. The 2d Far Eastern Army gained 9 to 25 miles northeast of Harbin in a drive between the Sungari and Ussuri rivers, and while Soviet bombers plastered Manchuria rail iunctions. Russian forces on the east captured Linkow, 177 miles east of Harbin.

Tokyo said Russian invasion forces, going ashore under the guns of the Soviet Pacific fleet, had es tablished two beachheads on the west coast of Sakhalin Island in a swift followup to the seaborne in vasion of Korea. Kamikazes Hit Troops The Russian landings were made as the Japanese Kwantung army Manchuria hurled kamikaze (suicide) planes at Russian armored columns in an effort to halt a Red Army drive on Harbin from the west. Tokyo news broadcasts said the Russians stormed ashore on Karafuto at Ambetsu, which lies just below the fortified border separat ing the Japanese half of the island from the Russian-owned north, and at Esutoru, 62 miles south of Am betsu. Ambetsu, the enemy said, was at tacked yesterday morning, while the Esutoru area was invaded early today. Esutoru lies 250 miles north of Hokkaido, northernmost of the islands of Japan proper, but the southern tip of Karafuto is separated from Hokkaido only by the 30-mile-wide Soya (La Perouse) Strait- The Russian landings apparently were designed to outflank the great steel and concrete fortifications marking the frontier between Rus sian and Japanese Sakhalin.

Along the frontier, however, the enemy reported that "powerful" Russian ground forces had broken through the border forts and had advanced 17 miles inside Karafuto, reaching the village of Keton. Keton is on a highway leading (Continued rn Page 2, Column 5) B. COCHRANE Correspondent! on the west coast of Shikoku where grounded planes were destroyed ana otner installations heavily hit, An Associated Press disDatch from Okinawa said one of the most spectacular Sunday missions was made by 5th Air Force night patrols wmcn spotted a Japanese destroyer in Tsushima Straits and dropped a string of one-quarter-ton bombs, They missed the destroyer which swerved suddenly, but hit a heavy cruiser which was spotted alongside at tnat moment. The cruiser was left dead in the water. but the airmen did not claim to have sunk her.

Japs Given No Respite MacArthur's planes gave the Japanese no respite. The attack pat tern extended from Korea -down the coast via Shanghai, Hong Kong, Formosa, lndo-China and Borneo through Celebes and the Nether lands On Monday MacArthur's head quarters said both land and air campaigns were continuing full tilt until further orders were received, It is obvious that the Allies plan the strongest action to the war's final moment. hipping off the nearby Kure naval base. The numbers of planes involved and other targets were not disclosed, as United States Army Strategic Air Force headquarters pointed out that the attacks still ere in progress and "will continue." The last previous B-29 raid was a small-scale blow at Fukuyama and Tokyo Thursday. Then it was announced that the B-29's were not going out.

There was no explanation, but the Japanese offer to surrender was apparently the reason lor the layoff. Wing's Maximum Effort Resumption of the assaults today constituted a maximum effort by the Tinian based 313th Wing of the 20th Air Force. A wing effort of maximum strength is usually about 100 This, first daylight strike against rail yards marks the opening of a Dew phase of the Superfortress campaign against enemy transportation lines which previously been hit only incidentally or by carrier and tactical The target is on a main double-track railroad from Tokyo south. Its destruction would halt fuel and food shipments to the fire-ravished enemy capital. Report No Opposition The yards in the target sector are 3,000 feet long and eight to ten tracks wide.

The B-29's attacked from altitude. The planes bombed visually and encountered neither fighter Interception nor anti-aircraft fire, according to first reports flashed back to Guam. 3d Fleet Knocks Out 138 Jap Planes In Day By THOMAS 3. O'DONNEIX ISunpapers War Correspondent! Guam, Tuesday, Aug. 14 By Ra diol Full-fledged war was waged yesterday by the United States Navy forces, with carrier planes from Admiral WiUiam F.

Halsey's 3d Fleet shooting down 21 Jap planes, destroying 46 more on the ground and damaging another 71 grounded planes. Meanwhile, cruisers and destroy ers of the Pacific Fleet bombarded three localities in the Kuriles, starting numerous fires. Two Cruisers Named The bombarding forces, which included the light cruisers Concord and Richmond, encountered and sank ten trawlers and a submarine chaser during the approach to the targets. Military installations at Matsuwa Island, at Kurabu Cape and Suri- bachl Bay on Paramushiro Island were hammered by the bombarding forces which suffered no damage or casualties, although batteries of (Continued on Page 3, Column 3) On Other Pages Rodney "Crowther cables that British cotton industry has been put on its own 8 Philip W. Whitcomb reports Pe-tain defense attempts to establish four points in first half of final pleading 8 Thomas J.

O'Donnell says doctors and nurses have little to do while waiting building of hospital center in the Pacific area. 3 Gloom is thick among Nazi war criminals now interned at Nuernberg Page 2 Powers decide against asking reparations from Austria. Page 4 Eleven women and two men die in fire in Detroit- export packaging plant 5 Truman confers with top advisers on reconversion Page 9 Management-labor group recommends lifting WMC controls for Baltimore 22 in a broadcast heard by the Associated Press said today "an imperial message accepting the Potsdam proclamations will be forthcoming soon." The broadcast was signed off at 1.50 A.M., Eastern War Time, and was preceded The statement was repeated a few moments later. No further details were given. Jap Cabinet In Continuous Session Only a short time earlier, however, Tokyo had reported DE GAULLE IS DUE IN U.S.

AUGUST 22 pur, Points Expected To Dominate Talks With Truman Washington, Aug. 13 (P) Gen. Charles de Gaulle will reach Washington August 22 to meet President Truman. Four subjects vital to France's future may come before them. iv.

The White House announced to day the trip of the president of the nrovisional Government of France is definite; Without discussing its purpose beyond the mutual ae-sire" of the two men to meet. The Four Key Topics American and French sources, speculating on questions likely to be brought up, gave attention to these topics: 1. The French economic situation. 2. The question of Germany's western boundary.

3. France's share in German reparations. 4. The Far Eastern situation, especially as respecting French territory. De Gaulle may stress particu larly the materials France needs to restore 'her industry and agricul ture to full-scale operation.

French Questions Unanswered France already has been allo cated 400,000 tons of American coal per month if shipping space is available. Machine tools, agricul tural equipment and, of course, food and other products, are likely to rate top priority on de Gaulle's list. The French point out that Ger many's eastern boundary was fixed at Potsdam, but that French ques tions regarding the Rhineland and the Ruhr have gone unanswered to date. Personal Relations Vital The French are concerned about this first of all because of its se curity aspects. It is obvious, how ever, that if France were permitted to exact sufficient reparations in kind from these German indus trial centers, the security prob lem would be solved automatically.

In the Far East, the French had hoped their troops might liberate lndo-China from the Japanese. Now that the war seems likely to end before such an expedition can be undertaken, the French are wondering how quickly the other major allies will permit restoration to France of what formerly was an important part of its empire. BULLETIN Washington, Aug. 13 () Dean Adfleson has resigned as assistant Secretary of State, an authoritative source disclosed tonight. The resignation was tendered Secretary James F.

Byrnes, and accepted. Acheson, 51, was the department's assistant secretary for congressional relations and international conferences. that the Japanese Cabinet had been in continuous session "until late Monday night" and indicated that the reply to the Allied unconditional surrender demand probably would by a "flash" warning. procedures are completed." transmission of Tokyo Domei post said. be available "as soon as legal The Associated Press listening post in New York re Fighting In Chekiang Sector Kyushu Base "Sea Of Fire" ported that the Tokyo Domei Morse stations JUP and JUD which sent the "flash" remained "on call." As Far East Flyers Strike Both stations were sending their call letters preceded by the letters "CQ" the international standby signal.

This is usual procedure prior to Morse schedules, the listening Chungking. Aug. 13 MP) Front! dispatches said tonight that, following Tokyo's surrender offer, some Japanese troop units in Chekiang province south of Shanghai had ceased fighting and were negotiating their capitulation. Chinese troops on the many nat- tlefronts, however, continued their attacks against Japans forces ana the Chinese Ministry of Informa tion said hostilities throughout China would continue until peace was officially proclaimed. 10th Air Force In Action American flyers blasted Japanese communications without letup and headquarters disclosed that the United States 10th Air Force, which formerly operated in the India-Burma theater, had gone into action.

The front-dispatches said that Japanese forces in Chekiang province sent representatives to the Chinese commanders to negotiate capitulation," but no details were given. A Chinese communique said General Chiang's soldiers, closing in behind Japanese troops withdraw ing from Southern Kiangsi had reached the vicinity of Fengcheng, 35 miles south of the Kan River port of Manchang Saturday. The Chinese advances were made along both of the Kan from Tsingkiang, 55 miles south of Man By ROBERT ISunpapers War Manila, Tuesday, Aug. 14 IBy Radio While Japan's war lords pondered their nation's fate, pillars of smoke rose over much of the western island of Kyushu Sunday under the impact of bombs and bul lets of 400 of the Far. East Air Forces warplanes, Gen.

Douglas MacArthur's headquarters disclosed today. "A sea of fire," kindled by more than 160 incendiary-bearing Thunderbolts, enveloped the rail and factory center of Miyazaki on the east coast of Kyushu, and smoke rose 9,000 feet. Crewmen said every building "except two-by-fours" was destroyed. We lost one plane. Highest Smoke Pillar 30,000 Feet solid sheet of black smoke rising to 15,000 feet" was left by an unstated number attack bombers which struck" fuel dumps, Duiiaings ana waiercrait at nusni kino, on the southwest coast of Kyushu.

The highest smoke pillar re ported was a column put up by bombs from three groups of Liberators sent over Matsuyama, The Text Of The Message The Domei text of the Tokyo "flash" as recorded by the Associated Press, said merely: "It is learned that an Imperial message accepting the Potsdam proclamations will be forthcoming soon." The broadcast made no reference to the Allied dictate with respect to Emperor Hirohito, contained in a special message dispatched to Tokyo Saturday by the United States, Britain, Russia and China. This message, in response to a conditional surrender offer by Japan, specified that Japan could retain Hirohito as Emperor for the present but that he would have to take his orders from the Allied supreme commander. Morse Stations Open Up With Report The Associated Press listening post reported at 2.15 A.M., Eastern war time that the Tokyo Morse stations JUP and JUD had opened their regular schedule at 2.06 A.M., with a repetition of their flash. At the conclusion of this repetition the stations resumed their regular press transmission datelined Tokyo, (Continued on Pot 2, Column 1).