The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12

the sneak attack on Pearl Harnor.
 Counter intelligence Headquar- ters, meantime, revealed that the following war criminals had been rounded up in addition to Tojo and Streeter:
 Mai. Charles H. Cousens, Austral- ian Army officer and former Syd. ney radio announcer, who allegedly broadcast over Japanese stations.
 Jorge B. Vargas, former puppet Filipino ambassador to Japan. His two sons. Eduardo, 2l, and dEesorio' l9, also were arrested.
 Heinrich Stahmer, German am. baSsador to Japan, placed in pro- tective custody at Odawara, a re. sort area south of Yokohama.
 Still sought were members of Tojo's Pearl Harbor" cabinet, Jap- anes army officers and prison guards accused of atrocities, and Asia, Bur- naese, SiameS and Filipino collaho- rators.
 GA Domei broadcast said Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, navy minister In the former Tojo cabinet, told newsnlan that he had changed his mind about committing suicide and was calmly awaiting arrest and tr!al.)
 It was revealed that the war crim- inals' commission was compiling more names to be added to the list of 70 whose arrests were ordered by MacArthur yesterday. A prison cen- ter will be established soon for handling the accused men. Good Survival Chance Tojo was given a better than even chance to recover from his suicide attempt by It. Col. James Perry of Tazewell, Va, chief surgeon of the 9sth evacuation hospital. Tojo was I removed to the hospital from his home in an American ambulance last night.
 Dr. Peery added there was a dan- gerous settling of pus in the left lung, however. The lung was pune tured by the bullet at a point only an inch from Tojo's heart.
 Brig. Gen. George W. Rice, chief surgeon of the Eighth army, visited Tojo this morning and said he had . "good chance" He described the generals condition as fair, but sat- isfactory.
 Rice said the wound was a suck ing wound" in the left chest be- tween the sixth and seventh ribs. The bullet passed through Tojo's body.
 Fully Conscious
 Tojo was fully conscious today. He was moved from the cot on which he had spent the night to bed and mattress on orders of rice. He was offered a breakfast of coffee and biscuits, but he refused 1t and asked only for little water.
 "Thank you," he said when the water was brought. They were his only words during the morning apart from his pleas to doctors to let him die.
 Japanese sources said Tojo had been nervous and depressed re- gently because of repeated urging' on the part of his military col leagues to commit hara-kiri as the only honorable course remaining fol him.
 Tojo was reported to have tolc his colleagues that he expected tC be brought to trial as war crim' inal and was waiting until he coult explain fully in court why Japar : had to start this war" Meantime, American troops con tinued to pour ashore In the Toky' area by the tens of thousands. 1 headquarters announcement sai' . the 8lst division has been scheduled i tentatively to land at Aomori | : northern Honshu about Sept. 2S, . Ten days later, tn, 7th divisio : and Ninth corps headquarters force !, will land at Otaru on Hokkaid northernmost of the Japanese hon d islands.
 4 Japanese sources sail more tha
 1000, 900 officers. men snd civllia workers of the Japanese NpVy ha \ been dIsarmed and discharged. AT h other O0.O remain to be mustered o' !. of the service.