The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13

continued all out against the Jap Fanese.
 There was fighting in the Philip pines. Soviet Union amphibious forces landed on the Korean coast and captured the port of Rashin Red land forces drove further into both Korea and Manchuria. The pressure is on. General Carl A Spaatz is standing by with the United States Strategic Air Forces and atomic bombs. Japan struca back by torpedoing a major United States warship, but failed to sink her.
 At 5:16 p. m., EWT. yesterday (6:16 a. m., Monday, Tokyo time) the British broadcasting company intercepted the following morse code message from Tokyo to Geneva Switzerland:
 Service message from Tokyo tc supervisor Geneva. Read your serv- ice message our important message not yet on hand. We support this message will be coming this morn ing"
 At 7:3o D. m.. EWT. yesterday (8:30 a. n.. Monday Tokyo time) Tokyo sent another message to Gen. eva:
 Please continue contact Geneva Tokyo until signals become unread able"
 A United Press Zurich dispatch explained that radio signals between Geneva and Tokyo are unreadable almost every day between 9:30 D. m. and a. m. EWT.
 The penalty for stalling would be high against Japan. Every day of delay increases the power deployed against her. If no word is obtained in reasonable time she may be given 8 final warning of atomic bombing as an alternative to im- mediate surrender. ta,zss J
 So far as Allied monitors could determine, the Japanese radio has not informed the public of the sur- render offer nor the point reply. But JaDan.s newspapers and radio continued the campaign of double talk. walls and admonitionS which began almost immediately after the surrender offer was sent. American broadcasting stations, of course, bombarded the empire with all de- tails of surrender offer develop ments.
 The medium wave broadcaStS beamed toward Japan were said to be capable of reception by the re- ceivers commonly in use among the Japanese. From reading their own newspapers, however, the Japanese public must be in state of jittery suspense. Domei, the Japanese off, cial news agency, broadcast early today that Mondays papers urged the people to maintain absolute composure in facing and coping with the stark reality of this gravest national crisis"
 Quotes of Press
 The Newspaper Yomiuri Hochi said: 'The stark reality is that Japan and the Japanese people now stand at the cross road of life and death"
 In one of the most significant omens of peace, the newspaper Nip pon Times advised its readers that "the time and circumstances had now arrived for development of the northern island of Hokkaido as a permanent solution of the country's food problem. That suggestion alone should be enough to convoy to Jap anese readers that the greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere which Japan undertook to form and from which she hoped to draw food and other raw materials was lost to her.
 "The national crisis is such," one paper informed its Tokyo readers today, that we must know the worst has come to the worst"
 The papers and radio stations uni- formly praised the emperor and his family and called for faith and unity in support of the throne. But what the Japanese people had not been told was that their government wants to surrender and has been informed that Hirohito must be sub ject to orders of the supreme allied command after the surrender is sign ed. That was the information for which the papers and radio stations evidently were preparing the people of .JaDan