The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-13
@ Pacific War Rages On With New Fury As Japan
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- Planes Deliver Telling Blows On Tokyo Environs
RUSSIAN MARINES
TAKE NAVAL BASE
nv HENRY b. JAMESON

,oNnoN Aug. 12-R-Russian
r,,rines, invading Korea under the
, nrotecting guns of the Soviet "a
I,so fleet, captured the big Japa'
e r.se naval base of Rashin and the
ns,r port of Yuki today after
nsS ashore 80 miles south
s Of yladivostok, the Soviet
Hish Command announced
The vital ports fell as Tokyo re.
,orted a massive new Russian
p p.re in Manchuria that threatened
~ wan perhaps 100000 japanese
ICONS ~ in China, cutting them OF
from Msnchuria and the japanese
homeland.
Tho new Red Army drive, as
ren or by the enemy, threatened
IN SPLIT an estimated 1900. 600 jap
u ~ troops on the Asiatic main
,and into two huge pockets.
command headquarters of The
7.nsnese Kwantung army in Man
oh'9ria said the drive was launched
wv Soviet troops striking from out
W 0s MONGOLIA across Chinese inner
MONGOLIA toward the Yellow Sea
northeast of Peiping, ancient cap
ital of China.
The Russians were hammerihs
across barren, mountainous ter
rsin toward the road and airbase
osnter of Linsi in southwestern
M.nchuria, the enemy said, lung
IND over an old caravan route
from Wuchuminsin in inner MIC
eolia $50 miles to the north.
1insi is, 24O miles Northwest OF
tbe Yellow Sea coast, which II
reached would isolate the enemy
in China. The town, 1877 miles
from the Chinese frontier, also is
onlv 10 miles North of the North,
ernmost rail line linking Central
china with the Manchurlan CITY
Of Mukden.
There was no confirmation OF the
Japanese report from the Sovle'
H;gh Command, but Moscow $
fourth Japanese war bulletin tolc
of gains of nine to q miles toWare
the Central Manchurian wal
arsenal city of Hardin.
Rashin and Kuki, ports on tne
sea of Japan, were seized by
landing parties after Adm. lvaI
Yumashev's Pacific fleet lombard
ed the bases with heavy nava.
guns, and Red Army planes ralneo
tens of explosives on wharves ano
harbors in three-aerial pounding.
Rashin, developed in the las,
seven wears as a japanese naval
base barely IS miles from the
great Russian naval anchorage OF
Poset below Vladivostok, was the
best enemy port in Korea. 1t hao
prewa- population of $4,000 per
sons.
From Rashin and Quki, 10 miles
Northeast, the japanese shlppeo
the vast war production OF Man
churia's industries to the home
land. Capture of the two ports
was a heavy blow to the KWan'
tung army's communications With
Japan proper.
Ships and aircraft of the Soviet
fleet destroyed two japanese NINE
layers and "A transports in forays
supporting the landings, Mosco"
said, and at The same TIM the
port Of seishin, So miles Southwes'
ct Rashin, vas endangered by the
advance of Soviet troops on INT
Asiatic mainland.
The Soviet communicate sale
that Marshal Kirill A. Meretskov
First Far Eastern army, in a u
mile advance in Manchuria, hat
captured the rail town of Hunchun
81 miles North of Kuki. Thl
swift Soviet advance impe~iled tn
Junction city of Tumen, q mile
to the West, which controls tn
rail routes from Central Man
churia to Seishin port.
Meretskov's troops were advanc
ing on 230-miles front North ant
northeast Of Hunchun, Selling Mis-
nan at the Northern end of tn
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