The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-08
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~SSNaOXO~ (Continued from Page D : t,lre of the catastrope, some source: saw a possibility that Japan might reconsider her rejection of the AL lied demand for her surrender be- fore she is invaded.
 "It shouldn't take the Japanese long to think this over," one rank ing officer said. we plan to present them with bursting atoms as often as possible"
 Preparations were continuing through the Pacific for an invasion of Japan if necessary, however. Ev- erywhere transports were on the move with supplies and troops.
 The Japanese, stunned by the de- struction of Hiroshima, charged over the Tokyo radio that the United States was violating Article 9 of the Hague convention and showing disregard for humanity by attacking a non-mihtary city with the atomic bomb.
 Hiroshima actually was an inn portant quartermaster depot and garrison city for the Japanese army.
 Fearful Deaths
 Radio Tokyo said both the dead and wounded had been burned be- yond recognition and confessed that authorities still were unable to ob- tain a definite check on civilian casualties.
 Those outdoors burned to death, while those indoors were killed by the indescribable pressure and heat" Tokyo said. It called the city a disastrous ruin"
 Medical relief agencies that were rushed from the neighboring dis tricts were unable to distinguish. much less identify, the dead from the injured" the enemy broadcast said.
 '"The impact of tlM bomb was So terrific that practically all living things, human and animal, were lit- orally scared to death by the tre- mendous heat and pressure engen- dered by the blast.
 With houses and buildings crushed, including the emergency medical facilities, the authorities are having their hands full in giv- ing every available relief possible under the circumstances"
 Radio Tokyo still referred to the atomic missile as merely a new type bomb" It said order gradually was being restored in the stricken city.
 Special Session
 The Japanese cabinet was called into a special session at the off, cial residence of Premier Kantaro Suzuki this morning to hear 8 re- port from its chief secretary, Hisa- tune Sekomizu, on the raid, Tokyo said.
 The Japanese Imperial household ministry announced that Prince RI Gu, nephew of the head of the former ruling house of Korea, was killed in the raid while fulfilling his duties as neutenant-colonel in the Japanese army.
 Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, commander of the American Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific, said recon naissance photographs revealed that fires touched of by the almost un- believable heat of the bomb leaped block-wide streams and spread into the outskirts.
 The city appeared desolated in the photographs. Bridges across seven channels of the Motoyasu River Delta within the city were damaged.
 Strangely, the photographs show ed no crater. However, Tokyo. had reported that the bomb was drop ped by parachute and exploded in the air. It was likely that the entire force of the blast was directed ori- zontally across the city below.
 Twice Size of Hartford
 Although the built-up area of Hiroshima came to six and nine- tenths square miles, the city as whole totaled 12 square miles with g population of 318,000-an average of 26,500 persons per square mile.
 Few, if any, of the more than 100000 persons in the totally-devas- tated four square miles were be- lieved to have escaped death or in jury. The blast alone of the atomic bomb could kill persons within four-mile range, and it was likely that there were many casualties out side the utterly-destroyed section.
 Spaatz told newsmen that other Superfortresses were ready to carry more atomic bombs to Japan. Leaf lets warning the enemy of his im- pending doom already were being prepared, he said.
 Both Spaatz and his chief of staff. It. Gen. Curtis Le May, agreed that if the bomb had been available in 1943 there might not have had to be any D-Day" for an invasion of France.
 Spaatz declined comment on the potentialities of the weapons use in the Pacific, but added:
 One of our few fears in Europe was that the Germans would find a secret weapon like this. We were vii tally concerned whether the Ger mans were ahead of us-not until we reached Berlin did we know that the Nazis were probably two years behind us."
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