The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-03-16

| lduu, ne sdlQ, most or them never would have reached the Marianas bases. and the lives of approximate | ly 33O men were at stake.
 Many thousands of Japs were. burned to death or severely injured or left homeless in the recent sup erfort inceudiary raids, Japan's chief propaganda spokesman said As the government hastened to eva l cuate millions of civilians from Nippon's largest cities, Tokyo | broadcasts recorded by EGG told of 1 flight from cities and quoted Sa- dao Iguchi. spokesman for the Jap board of information on the extent | of casualties IguChi reported pro paganda leaflets were dropped by. the fire-setttng superforts and called the raids an effort to ter rorize and weaken the morale of the Japanese people"
 He claimed the Tokyo areas bombed Saturday by 300 superforts l were not even remotely connected with war industries or located near military installations Thousands were burned to death and thoa- sands severely injured and many thousands bombed out of their homes"
 Radio Tokyo said, ''Incendiaries and bombs poured like rain on the peoples heads"
 4 Tokyo correspondent for the ! was thrown into a panic by Satur- days raid, and the people fled the city for the past six days by spe- cial train, trucks rickshas and on foot He said the hospitals were oyer-crowded, and that transporta- tion facilities were so jammed the l sufferers must wait two or three | days more' before they could get i out of Tokyo.
 Another Domei dispatch reported ! Nippon is suffering such a serious . salt shortage authorities are con- | lof nsd and demanding the govern | ment take drastic measures"
 MOON - American heavy |
  ters buildings and rows of barracks E yesterday in a 650-plane attack on Hitler's staff headquarters at Eos | sen, 20 miles south of Berlin. Air men who had been waiting weeks I to carry out the assignment did al bullseye job. Great fires were start ed in the surprise attack on the a1f fnfr IvcIan Erh f.l Ter was reported in conference d few days ago. It was carried out by pilots, navigators and bombardiets especially picked for the job.
 In a cloudless sky they paraded | over the target in two waves and ! dropped 5000 blast bombs weighing 1900 tons, in addition to 25,000 | small incendiary missiles.
 CHUNGKING-Jap have massed | 150,000 troops in the Qualifications in the Shanghai-Mangchow -Hingpo region and completed defensive ar engagements in the Hongkong-C Can ton area against feared American landings in China.
 WASHINGTON = Creation of q l Big Three commission on Romania l appeared possible after the United i States called for consultation over the establishment Of a Communist controlled government at Buchar- est. ! The American move, it is under stood, is based on the Crimean dec laration pledging political integrity of liberated ex-satellite countries, l and ruling out single handed action by the big powers. ] GUAM-Further reduction of the last stand of the Japanese on the northernmost end of Two on Thurs day, 25th day of the invasion, which has probably already cost the 1 Marines 4000 dead Is reported by the navy today.
 Gains toward Kitano point were registered by Maj Gen. Keller Tockeys fifth Marine division against intense small arms and mortar fire.
 Extensive enemy use of electrically con trOl land mines, increased artillery and auto matic weapon fire have slowed the fist division doughboys driving northward from captured Zambo- anga on Wednesday, but they wid- ened the Mindanao island beach, head to 2S miles. Japs have resort ed to electric mines for the first time in the southwest Pacific.
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 Fred Cunningham. manager of