The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-07-31
Three Day Toll Adds to
267 Ships, 43O Planes;
Aluminium City Shelled
Forty Ocean
Going Craft
Sunk
(Ry the Associated Pressl

(By the Associated Press)
American warships bombardet
Japan for the seventh time toda,
as Allied planes were credited with
taking three-day toll OF 267 Nip
ponese ships and 430 aircraft.
The great Allied fleet which has
been preparing Japan for invasion
for three weeks was apparently
moving back into waters near To
kyo, lending weight to enemy re-
ports of intensified preparations to
meet assault waves on the shores
of the homeland or China.
Latest bombardment-the second
in "a hours-was carried out this
morning by destroyers operating
boldly in Suruga Gulf so miles
southwest of Tokyo. They shelled
Shimuzu. Nippons greatest alumni
mum producing city, only As miles
northeast of Hamamatsu, target of
16-ineh battleship guns "a hours
earlier.
Tokyo admitted one Shimuzu in
dustrial plant was squarely hit. The
enemy radio said the bombardment
lasted only FIVE minutes. during
which 80 shells were poured into
the city.
The Smelling came on the heels OF
13-hour carrier plane raid over
500 mile arc of Japan's main
island, reaching from Tokyo Bay
to the Maizuru naval base on the
west coast of the island. Sixty yes.
sells and 1873 aircraft were destroy
ed or damaged and at least so air.
fields bombed-pocked.
Simultaneous strikes by lighters
and bombers from Okinawa and
Two Jima added 40 more ocean go
ing surface craft to the days toll.
Revised figures on last Satur-
days Allied carrier sweep over the
Inland Sea and the huge Kure Nav
al base listed lat vessels and 292
aircraft wrecked, including two air
craft carriers damaged and a
cruiser sunk which ha dnot been
previously listed.
Nimitz' communicates for the two
day carrier raids listed IA warships,
including six capital ships, sunk
and 80 damaged. His totals are
subjected to further revision when
Admiral Halsey furnishes details
Of yesterdays strike.
Extensive damage to factories,
including a powder works, and 9TH
err ground installations was report
ed. Additionally all types Of air
sweeps over Japan. China and Indo-
China knocked out ~ enemy loco
motives at least temporarily.
All Japanese over IA in occupied
China we're reported undergoing
hurried but realistic military train
ing in which FIRE belches forth
and blood is drawn" in preparation
for the enemy's coastal landing
plan" The Japanese expect this
blow to fall north OF Shanghai.
The civilian volunteer corps in
the homeland was told by Home
Minister Genki Abe to use suicide
tactics to meet invading forces.
THE Sacred soil" of Japan. he said.
must not be desecrated by foreign
Invaders"
Field dispatches told OF well-fed
Japanese troops bitterly resisting
Allied mop up forces in the Solom-
ons and the Philippines.
The Nipponese garrison on Bou-
granville Island in the Solomons
was reported reinforced by garri-
sons from the Shorthand Islands.
Half Of Bougainville is held by Aus
tralians who estimated $4,000 enc
my troops are still alive in the
Solomons. In eight months Aussies
have killed 1897 Japanese and
captured 337 on Bougainville and
New Guinea while suffering 5000
casualties OF their own.
L. S. Sixth Army troops ham
mering a three-pronged trap shut
on bullet-headed Gen. Tomoyuki
Kamashita fought through cloud
swept mountain forces OF northern
Luzon Island in the Philippines.
Typical OF the fierce resistance
the Nipponese counterattacked for
two hours in a futile attempt to re-
take one ridge which had fallen to
the Americans under one OF the
heaviest poundings OF the Philip
pine campaign.
British cleaning up southern
Burma killed 1000 more Japanese
for a nine day toll of more than
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