The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-07-20

Japan and the China Coast,
and general Chinese gains
in the south.
Maj. Gen. Kuo Chi Chin
said that in the last month
100000 Nipponese troops
have been shifted from Cen
trail China's Human province
to Shantung Province to meet
American amphibious assaults.
Others were transferred to the
coast from North China.
Shantung, 300 miles north OF
Shanghai, is the third area where
Tokyo has predicted a U. S. inva-
sion. II is the only one still Sc
curely in japanese hands.
Chinese reported today they now
control 50 miles of the South China
coast 125 miles southwest of Can
ton. The area is about 1000 miles
southwest of Shantung province
and 500 miles from the Philippines.
where Gen. Douglas Macarthur and
Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten con-
ferred last week to coordinate op-
erations of their Pacific and South
east Asia commands.
Not Imminent
Washington dispatches indicated
there was no probability Of an i'm
minent invasion. The. First Army
division being redeployed from Eu-
rope isn't expected to reach the
Pacific until about December ].
Premier. T. v. Soong predicted to-
day the war will about be over by
that time. But American command
ers. who are planning on con-
quest of North China and Manchur-
Ia. figure 1t will last until late next
year.
A Tokyo radio commentator as.
serted Adm. William +. (Buli) Hal.
sey's Allied naval forces had been
completely frustrated" in its at
tempt to size up Japan's defensive
strength and may have withdrawn
after q ten day afr and naval bonn
bardment. But he wasn't too sure
about II.
Silence following the lombard
ment Of the entrances to Tokyo
bay was reminiscent Of the radio
blackout preceding last Saturdays
Smelling OF Kamaishi. the first ma
val gun attack on Japan.
Hit Targets
More than 600 Superforts hit
five Industrial targets on the home
land and some 300 Okinawa-based
Army planes hit Nippon's largest
airdrome in China, while other far
ranging planes sank or damaged
Is more Nipponese ships. Among
them was 10000 ton freighter, a
rarity these days.
Two B-29s failed to return from
today's heaviest attack, 1t was prob
ably the most lightly opposed of
all Superfort sorties. Bombardiers
reported these results:
The target area in Fukui, West
Honshu Industrial center which was
brightly lighted when B-29s came
over, completely destroyed. Cho-
81. fishing port, turned into "a
mass OF flames. Fires well-spaced
among the shadow industries of
0kazakai. Fires lighted throughout
Hitachi which the fleet bombarded
Tuesday. A big explosion in the
Nippon oil refinery near Osaka
with flames visible for 100 miles.
Thirty skip-bombing Thunder
bolt fighter planes attacking south
ern Japan blockaded three rail-
road tunnels around Kagoshima.
This cut off land communication
between the munitions and sub
marine producing city and the rest
OF Kyushu Island.
Fighter-escorted bombers attack
ing the Shanghai area through
heavy cloud cover unloaded 290
tons Of bombs on elaborate Kiang-
wan airdrome. II was the heaviest
blow struck at the Asiatic contin-
ent from 0kinawa.
A report from Guam, now the
greatest naval base In the Pacific,
said that 1892 Japanese have been
killed in the Marianas Islands since
they were announced as secured.
In one OF the wars most bizarre
touches. Australian troops over
running Borneo's rich Sambodja
oil fields found the area. capable
of producing 100000 barrels of
high grade crude oil a year, de-
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