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Okinawa Ours us Chinese Force Yu River, Gain 31 Mi. on Coast Chungking, June 21 (U.R). Chinese forces driving for Hangchow Bay have fodced the Wu River and advanced 31 miles beyond captured Wenchow against only fitful resistance from the withdrawing Japs, it was announced tonight. Two columns were pushing the drive up the China coast, with one reaching Panshiwei, 13 miles east of Wenchow, while the second speared through Yotsing, 21 miles northeast of the old walled port, find drove 10 miles farther. The enemy's coastal garrisons continued to withdraw toward the defensive system around 'Ningpo, and it appeared that the entire coastline below that point, except for the heavily fortified Canton-Hong Kong area, might be abandoned.

In the south China interior, where the Japs alsowere drastically pulling in their lines, Chi- (M CM -5 CO t-2 i A Yank doughboy, rifle ready, waits to move up as a flame-throwing tank burns out Japs hiding in holes along the sunken road on bitterly contested Big Apple Ridge, Okinawa. Doolittle Sachs Eisenhower EG On Single Defense Command NEWS Bureau From THE Washington, D. June Doolittle today agreed with General of the Army Eisenhower foothoWV 100 MILES After 82 Days Of Slaughter (Continued from page 3) Remnants of the enemy garrison in two small pockets in the southern portion of the island are being mopped up." The victory -came only three days after Lieut. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner 10th Army commander who led his men into Okinawa on Easter Sunday morning, April 1, was killed by a burst of shellfire.

The veteran Stilwell, who succeeds Buckner, probably knows more about the Japs than any other American general and has been commander of Army Ground Forces since he left the China-Burma-India theater last October. Trained 7th Division. The 62-year-oITjreneraI, who still "can walk the pants off any pri vate," is now touring Pacifiic battlefronts and training grounds. Among the divisions in his Army is one he calls "my division Major Gen. Archibald V.

Arnold vth Division, veterans of Attu. Kwaialein. Leyte and Okinawa. which Stillwell personally trained at Fort Ord. before the war.

Word of the Okinawa victory was flashed to Nimitz last night at 10 P. M. (Guam time) by Ma rine Lieut. Gen. Roy S.

Geiger, who took temporary command of the 10th following Buckner's death The end of what Tokyo has called "the decisive battle of the Pacific" came when marines and doughboys slashed the Japs into three pockets and began mopping up operations. One pocket already was com pletely crushed. Only bare rem nants of a eamson that once numbered more than 90,000 men remained in the other two, and they were being killed or captured in hand-to-hand fighting. 27th Mops LTp in North. Marines of the 6th Division were tattering through a pocket at the extreme southern tip of the island in the Cape Ara vicinity, where many enemy troops were leaping to their deaths from 160-foot cliffs.

Other doughboys and leathernecks were cleaning out the second pocket atop the Yaeju-Dake plateau around Hill 81. A moderate-sized Jap force also was being mopped up by the 2th Division at the northern tip of the island. The Americans broke through to this tip April 18, giving them possession of three-fourths of Okinawa, but the last fourth in the south became the scene of a fierce struggle after the Yanks began assaulting the Naha-Shuri-Yonabaru line on April 5. By the beginning of June, the capital city, Naha, had fallen, the powerful defense line was broken and the last Japs were hopelessly trapped atop the southern plateau. Japan, fearfully awaiting the day when mighty fleets of bombers start taking off from Okinawa's fields to join those already operating from the Marianas, said the Americans already were getting ready to invade Japan.

The enemy cited these signs of American intentions: B-29 raids on small as well as large cities point to an attempt to destroy the country's transportation network and factories in a prelude to invasion. The Allied air fleets concentrated on German communications before invading Normandy. More than 100 American trans-ports are riding at anchor in the American-won Kerama Islands, southwest of Okinawa. Gen. MacArthur's establishment of a Western Pacific Command under Lieut.

Gen. Wil-helm D. Styer to handle the flow of supplies to the fighting fronts indicates that large bases are to be set up for the assembly of personnel and material for an invasion of Japan. Nimitz' last report on Amedican casualties, as of May 24, listed 4,270 members of the Pacific Fleet, 8,706 soldiers and 1,626 marines as killed or missing. It was believed ground fatalities would rise to it 000 with the next report.

Listed as wounded were 4,171 Fleet per sonnel, 13,910 Army and 7,422 marines. Jap casualties through Tuesday were 87,343 dead and 2,565 captured. Okinawa Death Toll Highest Guam, June 21 The con quest of Okinawa was the longest and costliest of all the campaigns in the central and western Pacif- With casualty figures still in complete, the toll of enemy and American killed, captured and wounded all but equals the grand total of casualties in six major campaigns which led to Okinawa. The 82 days it took to break all organized resistance dwarfs the 26 days of Iwo. The latter is less than eight square miles in area.

and Okinawa is roughly 485 square miles. The figures for Okinawa, which include Jap casualties through luesday and American casualties only to May 24, compared with those of six other campaigns fol low: JAPANESE AMERICAN Killed Cantiirml Killprt WnnmM Okinawa 2.565 25.514 WO 2.J.244 l.OXH Sainan 27.5M8 2.1K1 S.42H lH ll'I'l Guam 17.442 524 1.4:17 5.64S Palau 1.1.:J54 4:5 1 Mrl 115 rarawa 6. mm lfto ia 2.o:t Tinian fi.939 1.515 (irifc'Urea lor Americana Riilpi lnr-Iudes Stilwell Bad In the Fight (Continued from page S) carieature of his likeness on a vinegar jug drawn by a young junior officer who had felt the lash of his picturesque vocabulary for some dereliction of duty. The name won instant favor from other men who had felt the weight of his displeasure. Stilwell is 62-.

He has been in the Army since he was graduated from West Point in 1904. He saw service in the Philippines and in France durine World War I as well as in the Far East. He served three tours of duty in China from 1920 on. Hell of a Beating. There are many legends about Stilwell, his forceful methods and his ready vocabulary, but he is perhaps best known for his straightforward account of the Allied defeat in Burma: "I claim we got a hell of a beat ing.

We got run out of Burma and is humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back, and retake it." (In Washington, Undersecretary of War Patterson, characterized Stilwell as a commander with vast experience in fighting the Japanese. He said that Stilwell's successor as chief of Army Ground Force would not be immediately announced.) 21. Lieut. Gen.

James H. department of national defense. Under one supreme command, he told a press conference, the ground, sea and air forces should be "run by their own experts on an equal basis." Whether they should wear the same uniforms, as suggested by Eisenhower, Doolittle considers unimportant. Asked to whom Eisenhower re ferred when he "doubted that the big brass would agree with Doolittle grinned: "when a five star general speaks of brass, I think he is speaking of very im portant people indeed!" Barred From Tokyo. The commander of the 8th Air Force, who is preparing to shift to the Pacific theatre again, said his first raid on Tokyo was also his last.

He explained that he has been barred from combat flying be cause he knows too much about overall strategic plans. Doolittle said his request to fly over Berlin was also turned down because it was considered unwise to risk his capture by the enemy after he knew of the invasion plans. He revealed that he participated in a raid on Rome before he was grounded in 1943. Chaffing at the restriction, Doolittle declared: ''It is easier to say 'follow me' than go out and get them, and a commander loses some prestige with his men when he can lead. But I was unable to sell it to my su periors." Will Train in Colorado.

Doolittle said his 8th Air Force staff in the Pacific would be com posed most of men without combat experience, "with just enough holdovers to see that we don't make the same mistakes we've made before." They will be equipped mostly with B-29 Superfortresses. He added that the 8th soon would be assigned to Pacific bases from which to join in the attacks on Japan. In the meantime, he said, his group is being trained for redeployment, with headquarters at Colorado Springs, Colo. The 8th will be given strategical directives by the 'oint chiefs of staff in Washington, he said. This will mean at least three major air forces in the Pacific, since the 8th will operate independently of the overall Pacific command of Gen.

MacArthur and Arthur Chester Nimitz as does the 20th Air Force. Under MacArthur's command is the Far Eastern Air force of Lieut George C. Kenney. Reshape your lips to more becom ing lines. In Antoinette Donnelly's leaflet, "Alluring you're told the secret of lip glamour.

Send a stamped, addressed envelope to her. The News, 220 E. 42d New York, that there should be a single Ike Demands Strong Army (Continued from page 2) jerked off his cap and swept his 83-year-old mother, Mrs. Ida Eisenhower, into his arms. "Hello, Mother, how are you he said as he embraced the cor-saged, black-gowned lady who wore a schoolgirl's broad smile and her eyes glistened with pride.

"Hello, Ike," his mother said, her voice breaking. Then Ike pumped the hands of his brothers, Milton, Arthur, Earl and Edgar. It was in these familiar surroundings, close to his home in Abilene, where he journeyed tonight by special train with his family, that Eisenhower spoke. "This nation," he said, "must continue strong. The coming generation has a right to expect, and it is our duty to see that our children have their rightful dues, and have proper training: to meet our foes.

I say this with full faith that we are organizing well to min imize the chances of war. We still must be strong and the possibilities of future war are so terrifying that they make any other course impossible. "Must Contribute Food." Gen. Eisenhower said the world's greatest needs today are moral leadership and food. The Middle West, he said, has contributed President Truman as a leader, and must, despite floods and drought and whatever other hazards, contribute food, because without food.

there can be no peace. 'Myself and my associates" was the term constantly used by Eisen hower in accepting the great bi-state homecoming prepared here for the five-star leader any 53 Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska heroes from Germany and France. "We've come to the great Mid dle West," he said, "and none of us ever have forgotten this is the most fortunate region under GoU heavens." Greeted by Governors. An hour after his arrival. Mayor John B.

Gage and Mrs. Gage of Kansas City rode with Gen. Eisenhower down broad Grand Ave. as several hundred thousand Kansas Cityans lined the route en route from downtown to Liberty Memorial Mall above Union Station, where the general reviewed a two-mile long parade of military units and gaily-dressed horsemen. Military planes, includ ing B-29s, roared overhead by the score.

(Other picture on page 1.) (NEWS map by Staff Artist) Chinese driving toward Hangchow Bay (A) advanced 31 mile beyond Wenchow at other columns reached Panshiwei and speared through Yotsing (B), south of Ningpo. nese columns driving on the Kwangsi hub of Liuchow from the south and west joined forces at a point six miles southwest Of the city, the Chinese announced. More than 100 miles to the south, the Chinese checked a two-day- old, double-pronged enemy drive from the base of the Liuchow Peninsula at points north of Limkong and northeast of Shekok. The Japs in this sector were believed trying to cover the withdrawal of their garrisons from Hainan Island via the Luichow Peninsula. Striking into Indo-China, U.

S. B-25 medium bombers and P-51 Mustangs destroyed three steamers at Haiphong and probably sank another. Guerrillas Get No. Luzon Hub Manila. Friday, June 22 (VP).

Filipino guerillas have captured the Cagayan Province capital of Tuguegarao, 50 airline miles south of the Luzon north coastal port of Aparri, Gen. MacArthur an nounced today as the U. S. 37th Infantry Division mopped up around Ilagan and destroyed eight Jap flame-throwing tanks. luguegarao is the second provincial capital in northern Luzon to be liberated in as many days.

The 37th already had taken Ilagan, capital of Isabela Province, and some 35 miles south of Tuguegarao. The guerrillas seized large quan tities of food and ammunition, MacArthur reported. Resistance was described as scattered, with the Japs apparently fleeing northward through the Cagayan Vallev towards the doubtful sanctuary of Aparri. The 37th, however into a force four miles southeast of Ilagan, where the flame-throwers were knocked out. 17, W..