The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-31
Forts Warn
 yoPs To Flee
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(Continued from Page D force 38 went under another secuf- ity blackout off the burning Jap anese coast in preparation for new blowS Their planes had destroyed or damaged no fewer than 60 ships and l38 planes yesterday alone in sweeps from Tokyo to Kobe.
 Radio Tokyo said the task force included at least IA carriers and way believed cruising off the Izu penin- sula on the east coast of Honshu. It estimated 1900 Allied planes at tackled the central Honshu area during a 13-hour period yesterday.
 Other carrier and land-based planes raided Honshu during the night, Tokyo said. Ten or more car rier aircraft hit airfields on Tokyo Bay, single Superfortresses and Lib- orators flew over Yokosuka and other planes appeared over the Shi- zuoka Prefecture coast, the broad cast said.
 Nimitz's communiques, coupled with similar announcements from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Far Eastern Air Forces, revealed that Japan's shipping, railway lines and small factories have been disrupted to the greatest extent since the start of the war.
 Jittery Japan already was girding herself for the invasion she now knows is inevitable. Japanese Home Minister Genki Abe told members of the civilian volunteer corps in nationwide broadcast last night that they must be guided by the sui- eide spirit in meeting an invasion of their homeland.
 Although established originally. to increase food and war production, Abe said the corps members must | be willing to act in combat as a shield" for Emperor Hirohito and be willing to sacrifice themselves for the defnese of Japan. Shimizu Bombarded
 Nimitz issued two communiques during the day. He first reported the bombardment of Shinizu and detailed the shipping and aircraft losses inflicted on the enemy in yesterdays carrier-based air at- tacks along a 300-mile stretch of the enemy coastline.
 Preliminary results of the strike showed seven ships sunk, 53 dam aged, 65 planes destroyed and 73 damaged between Tokyo and Kobe, the comdnunique said. The ships wrecked included an escort carrier, three destroyers, eight destroyer es- corts and 10 submarines.
 The second communique gave a final assessment of destruction in- flicted by carrier planes in Satu- days raid on the Kure naval base
 and other targets along Japan's
 Inland Sea-139 enemy ships and
 326 aircraft destroyed or damaged.
 The new tally included 49 enemy
 ships and 43 planes previously unre-
 ported.
 The totals for Saturday showed
 Fdfty-four Japanese vessels sunk
 three destroyers, one destroyer es-
 cort, one large freighter, five me
 dium freighters, nine small freight
 CTS, IT junkS, one submarine and
 16 luggers and other assorted small
 craft.
 At least eighty-five Japanese ves-
 sells damaged-thirteen destroyers and destroyer-escorts. one patro,
 craft, one submarine, one torpedo
 boat, three large merchant vessels three medium merchant vessels, 1(
 small merchant vessels, 12 othel
 cargo vessels, Al luggers and many other small craft.
 326 Japanese aircraft wrecked
 q shot down, 123 destroyed on the ground and 182 damaged on the ground.
 Tone Reached The communique also revealed that the crippled heavy Japanest cruiser tone has been beached by the enemy and that the super -car. riers Amagi and Katsuragi, al. though still af1oat. had lost larg' portions of their flight decks ans , were out of action.
 Widespread damage to Japanest
 railways, war factories and othe, | important ground installations il 5 carrier-b based raids Saturday als, l was retailed in the second com nlunique.
 American airmen destroyed | . locomotives, a hangar, three ware houses, a transformer station, thre, . roundhouSes and four oil cars anS : damaged eight other locomotives two lighthouses, two radio stations the Kawasaki aircraft factory a
 Kagamigahara and eight other fac tories.
 |, British carrier planes damaged the Kawasaki aircraft plant a
 AkaShi, port installations at Satc sfMpyards at Harina and factor. 3 near Miki.
 , Twenty-seven American plane ' and eight British aircraft were los , in the raids.
 , For this mornings bombardmen , of Shimizu, the American destroyer Schroeder. Harrison and other
 sailed some 30 miles into land-locke, Suruga Bay between the Izu Penin , sula and the coast of Shizuoka pre- lecture to get within easy rang of Japanese shore batteries on eithe ' side of the i0-mile-wide bay. Radio Tokyo sought to belittl the bombardment by saying tha only 90 shells fells in the target arei during Q five-rninute attack. On' : direct hit was scored on an indus trial plant, Tokyo admitted, and small number of casualties was re- ported.
 Japan's largest aluminium plan Is situated at Shiniizu. Although no results of the bonn baFdment of Shimizu were an nounced by Allied headquarters Paeific fleet headquarteFs said maya forces which sheiled the industTia city of Hamamassu early yesterda, , gutled several railway workships fired Q propeller factory and dalla' I aNna military HafFaeka a koztIIf