The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-23

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 Seventy-five Mustangs from Two attacked airfields in the Mito area 65 miles north of Tokyo for an hour and half this afternoon, radio Tokyo said. Three superfortresses guided the fighters.
 Twenty-eight other fighters from Okinawa bombed and machine gunned suicide-plane bases near Fukuoka on Kyushu in southern Japan, Tokyo said.
 Other war developments in Japan and on her southern approaches in- cluded:
 U. S. Ships Sunk
 l. Radio Tokyo said the Japanese capital virtually" has completed preparations for its defense against invasion
 2. The Japanese war ministry es- tablished two new army district commands, one on the island of Shikoku between southern Honshu and northeast Kyushu and the other in the Chugoku area. Japan now has been divided into eight army districts for defense against Amer ican landings.
 3. Two American light naval units were sunk and three others were damaged off Okinawa by Japanese suicide planes.
 | 4. Japanese troops surrendered by the thousands on Okinawa, many of | them with a frank admission that | Japan canot win the war The total number of prisoners on the island may reach 1000.
 5. An Okinawa dispatch revealed that six American airfields already are in operation on the island and Tokyo said many. many more were being built for attacks on Japan.
 6. Tokyo said American and Chi nese forces in China have begun a new deployment of air groups and armies in apparent preparation for an offensive if and when American invasion forces land on the China coast opposite Okinawa.
 An unidentified commentator on the Tokyo radio said it was highly possible that Hirohito may invoke his imperial supreme authority in the event that the crisis facing Japan becomes more serious.
 Such move would go even be- yond the sweeping powers granted the Suzuki cabinet by the imperial diet last week. These powers, en- abling the cabinet to rule by de- cree, went into effect today. | TOlyxyo cpy,, m at tor ojI fhat the emperor's supreme authority would override all existing laws and Ikened it to parental authority, by which parents do anything they deem absolutely necessary for their childrens welfare, even by disre- garding the opinion of others"
 In reporting that Tokyo virtual ly" was prepared to repel an Amer ican invasion, the Japanese radio said civilian volunteer corps was functioning in each of the city's 35 wards, Augmented by 1880 CO., operating units.
 Twenty Grumman fighter bomb CTS and eight Lightnings participat- ed in the attacks on the airfields near F'ukuoka early this morning, Tokyo said. They presumably came from Okinawa.
 Japanese suicide planes, possi- ply from the same bases attacked by the Grummans and Lightnings, sank two light American naval units during 20 separate attacks on the American fleet off Okinawa Thursday night through Friday noon, Pacific fleet headquarters an- nounced.
 An American auxiliary unit was damaged heavily in the suicide at tacks and two other light units were damaged slightly American combat patrols shot down or repulsed most of the attacking enemy planes, but the toll of enemy aircraft was not available immediately
 The attacks brought to 10 the number of American naval units sunk and 52 the total damaged off Okinawa by enemy aircraft.
 Radio Tokyo had claimed that two American battleships, two destroy CTS and IA unidentified warships were hit Thursday night and Fri day. Another unidentified warship was said to have been sunk last night.
 On Okinawa. Seventh Division troops were conducting an all-out manhunt around the crags and caves of Hill 89 on the southeast coast for trace of the Japanese commanding general
 The troops belie-- he may be hiding with a suicide garrison in a great cave which noneycombs the hill. Doughboys stormed the en- trance to the cave yesterday. but were driven back by mortar flre from the brush-screened entrance.
 Unable to bring up flame throw CTS because of the rough terrain,
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