Evening star., 1945-07-28
Jap Batt|eship Is Reported Sunk
Remnants Of Fleet Blasted Again;
Enemy Leader Spurns Ultimatum
Porty Chief Says
Peace Offer Will
Not Affect Nation
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 28.-
The unconditional surrender
ultimatum of the United States,
Britain and CIl;I1a was rejected
today by the president Of Japan's
mass totalitarian political party,
first identified enemy official to
speak out.
The Tokyo radio quoted Gen. Jiro
Minami, president of the Political
Association of Great Japan, as de-
claring the "entire japanese nation
will remain absolutely unaffected in
their reSolute determination to save
their country from national ex-
termination.
Gen. Minami admitted Japan
might be overwhelmed by armed
force" but only at the cost Of mil
lions of human lives. He said the
Potsdam ultimatum was exactly
contrary to what the Japanese con-
clusion would be that the japanese
nation has no other choice than to
push its war effort"
Says Japan Won't Surrender.
"Those enemy leaders who signed
their names to the Potsdam proc
lamation know full well that the
japanese nation would never sur
render, even if their homeland
should be thoroughly devastated and
ravaged, and therefore it is impos-
sible to win victory over Japan by
military means alone" Gen. Minami
said.
He declared Allied war leaders
have been driven into an extremely
uncomfortable dilemma" by war
weariness and inability of their
people to stand the great sacrifices
necessary to defeat Japan"
Earlier Japan's semiofficial Domei
News Agency said Premier Suzuki
would broadcast to the nation to-
day "his determination for the de-
cisive battle in the streets"
japanese propaganda agencies
went through successive stages of
professed fury, vague double-talk
and ridicule of the Potsdam declara-
ton in which America, China and
Britain bluntly told Japan to quit
now or be destroyed.
Statement Toned Down.
Domei started with an angry
statement that the ultimatum would
be ignored and that Japan would
fight to the bitter end"
The Tokyo radio soon toned this
down by saying that Japan would
adopt a policy to strive toward
completion of the Greater East Asia
war in conformity to the hitherto
established basic principles"
This broadcast, intended for jap
anese home consumption and heard
by the Federal Communications
Commission, could have meant that
Japan fully intended to fight for
ever for everything she had ever
started out to get. But it was also
vague enough to mean anything
in the end, that it's unidentified au-
thors intended it to mean.
Domei then returned to the air,
and while omitting any further ref
erence about fighting to the bitter
end, it announced Premier Suzuki
would broadcast today, and would
express "his determination for sure
victory and firm and unshakable
measures to cope with the final de-
cisive battle between Japan and
America"
Called quite a Farce"
The Tokyo radio, in a broadcast
heard by American Broadcasting Co.
monitors, then stated that the ulti-
matum was being dismissed as
quite farce by the japanese press.
1t quoted the newspaper Mainichi
as calling it "a preposterous nom
sense and bluff"
But at the same time 1t said
Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo
had reported the ultimatum to the
cabinet yesterday land also on mat
ters pertaining to the declaration. "
BY this time Domei apparently
had got itself lined up with the
radio propagandist, and in broad
cast directed to America and heard
by the FEC 1t elaborated the theme
of ridicule.
1t reported that Tokyo newspapers
had carried the surrender terms "in
full' with the following headlines
Asahi-"The United States, Brit
ain and China announce final con-
ditions for japanese surrender
Proclamation of their joint propa-
ganda maneuvers.
Determination Expressed.
proclamation betrays
enemy's day-dream and illusion.
Japanese people, paying no heed to
enemy's move, renews determination
to fight war to successful con-
clusion."
Yomiuri- Hochi- Potsdam decla-
ration a crafty move taken with
eyes both on Japanese people and
the enemy's own internal situation.
Surrender terms ridiculous"
Nippon Sangyo Kaizai Business
Daily Surrender terms will be
entirely ignored by people. Enemy's
propaganda maneuvers will be
blasted"
Newly Elected Luborite