The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-25

of them concentrating on the Tokyo area.
 Obviously such a raid could not infict any decisive material damage but 1t was a shock to the Japanese sense of security.
 Right after the raid the Japanese army emplaced many new anti-air- craft guns on Tokyo rooftops. Con- struction of air raid shelters was intensified.
 Fires which the raiders started were put under control quickly with the aid of Tokyo's large, well train ed volunteer fire fighting organiza- ton.
 However, 1t was reported that at the Nagoya aircraft factories fires burned for two days.
 Admires Americans
 One of the guards at the concen- tration camp where l was held, along with other American corre- spondents, after having been kept a prisoner in a hotel room, told me:
 T have great admiration for these Americans, who have the courage and ability to make this long flight to Japan"
 Several Japanese girl students reported that the American airmen leaned from their bombers and waved as they flew over the girls university.
 The Japanese said at first that they shot down nine American planes. Later they admitted that none were known to have been downed
 Despite its relative smallness, the raid had considerable effect on morale because the Army war lords had said that 1t would be impossi- blc to bomb Japan.
 One of the sidelights of the war is that while Japan Is seeking to improve relations with the Vatican 1t is becomings increasingly anti Christian, because 1t holds that Christianity is part of the western culture which Japan aims to drive from the east.
 was put in concentration camp with numerous American ard Brit ish Protestant and Catholic mis- sionaries.
 Missionaries Killed
 The missionaries tried vainly for weeks, with the aid of the Swiss le- gaticn, to get permission to hold services.
 The Catholic priests read Mass secretly In darkened rooms at night.
 When the Protestants finally were given permission to hold services 1t was on condition that they did not use the Bible.
 Several foreign mission properties have suffered heavy damage by fire, including the dormitory of the American Presbyterian school at Tokyo and the Netherlands Catho- lie school at Nagoya. Two Neither lands nuns and three Japanese nuns died in the Nagoya fire.
 Non Axis clergymen except the Ill or aged, most Protestant mis- sionaries and some nuns were tl- termed.
 Recently the Japanese compelled all Protestant sects in Japan tc combine in a single church under government control.
 The Japanese attempted to util- iZe the missionaries for their propa- ganda.
 Dr. Theodore Walser, New York, detained at the Sanno Hotel, was forced to write an article on the protection given Christianity by Japan, I was told.
 During his interment Ambassador Grew frequently protested to the Japanese, through the Swiss legation which is handling American diplo- matic interests in Tokyo, against what he considered maltreatment of American diplomatic and consular personnel.
 Japs Reject Protests
 The Japanese rejected all pro tests.
 American war prisoners from Guam and Wake Islands were com pelled by the Japanese army to write statements which the Japan csc broadcast, have been informed.
 I. like other correspondents. was subjected to physical violence by Japanese officials who demanded favorable statements on our treat ment.
 Ambassador Grew remained in good health throughout.
 He did all he could to aid war prisoners.
 Japanese newspapers published photographs of the prisoners from Guam and Wake being marched through the streets of Yokohama. the port of Tokyo, under a heavy guard or army. navy and police men. Since May, according to my in- formation. some of the prisoners have been forced to work as steve- dores at Kobe.
 At the zentsuji prison camp, I have been informed. the usual meal consists of thin soup, rice and black bread with 25 pounds of meat a week for 365 men, figs once a week and Q piece of fruit every 10