Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1945 — Page 2

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that “our ships don't have wheels so we could chase the Japs inland after we. drive them from the coast.” Most Successful Bombing Reports on the destruction wrought by Halsey's fliers in yesterday’s dawn to dark strike onthe charter is the exclusion from Kure and the surrounding area Were yoting in the security council—up still incomplete, but by all &c-it, the enforcement stage—of any

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- The Japanese ocuntered first with a terrific anti- anti-aircraft bayo/ rage that turned -the sky into a| rainbow-colored hell. They sent’| thelr hoarded fighter planes aloft in a last desperate bid to save the

United Press War Correspondent Ernest Hoberecht reported from one of the attacking carriers that the ‘enemy aerial opposition appeared to! have been smothered after a furious battle. © By late afternoon, Ametican Corsair fighters had won mastery | of the skies, clearing the way for the knockout by the fleet's Helldivers ‘and torpedo bombers, and were strafing the enemy airfields almost at will, The imperial battle fleet that steamed out to challenge the United | States barely three years and seven months ago was dying impotently in the bomb-churned waters of the , inland sea. Wave Upon Wave

At least seven enemy battleships, carriers and cruisers—virtually all of Japan's surviving seapower— ' were holed or set ablaze in yesterday’s 1000-plane carrier strike. And wave upon wave of diving, strafing American and British planes were back to finish off the cripples today. .> They -eame in over the burning Kure anchorage at first light of day and were still pouring bombs, rockets and gunfire into the wrecked Japanese warships more than eight hours later. “This may well mean the end of

Halsey’s attacking armada. Attack Kobe Harbor “Part of the huge attacking force wheeled eastward along the Inland sea to bomb and shoot up Kobe i. 150 miles away, where other | secondary units of the Japanese navy were believed hiding. “Kure and Kobe have been the refuge for the Japanese navy,” said Johnston, “They are a refuge no ”

There was no chance of escape for the trapped enemy warships. Swarms of night figliter planes kept constant vigil over the target area during the night, dropping flares . and incendiaries into Kure harbor. ‘In contrast to the wild dogfighting that swirled over Kure all day yesterday, there was no airborne opposition when the first carrier planes roared in to the attack this morning. Hampered by Bad Weather But the Japanese warships still afloat and the shore batteries lining the anchorage opened up with one of the most tremendous flak barrages ever met by Halsey’ fliers in a vain effort to turn back the attack. Bad weather hampered the first assault waves, but fleet dispatches indicated Halsey's carriers were standing close offshore to facilitate the strike — perhaps south of Shikoku island, which lies across! the Inland sea from Kure. Even before the airborne blow began, a fast task force of American light cruisers and destroyers raced in to within a few miles of the southeastern Honshu coast to bombard the Kushimoto seaplane base and other targets, 200 miles east of Kure, - Victory -Message , The only sign of Japanese opposition there was a lone picket boat that was blown out of the water by a few crashing salvoes. While the thundering air attack was still on, Halsey confemptuously broke radio silence to broadcast a “victory message” to the United States. The blunt veteran, whose proclaimed ambition is to ride the streets of Tokyo on Hirohito's white horse, hailed the fleet strike as “the beginning of the final plunge into} the heart of the Japanese empire.” “What is left of the Japanese! navy is helpless, but just for good |

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hits on the superstructure; [aRpumS, Burton added, it will be fo a cruisers, the 14,000-to n| of SxtretraIY mportanes! i hich was left burning fierce. &!80INE the world’s nations if the Oe re 9000-ton Aoba, damaged {dispute enters the “enforcement hit; the light cruiser stage. : J a from runs to stern| Today's: second speaker, Senator |by repeated 1000-pound bomb hits, H. Alexander Smith (R. N. J.) told a large carrier and an escort Carrier, the senate he will vote for Charter both badly damaged. | ratification “with enthusiasm.” He The two battleships, both re- ecalled that he already has voted ported ‘to have been converted re- for the reciprocal trade program, |¢ {cently into battleship-carriers, were pelieved to be the last seaworthy dreadnaughts in the enemy fleet. he 33,000-ton Nagato was hit, heavily: in the carrier raid on the Yokosuka naval base last Wednesday. | No Wild Bombs Ten other merchant ships and smaller craft were sunk or damaged “in Kure and the adjoining; waters of .the Inland sea, and the foster was expected to be consid- | erably larger when the final returns were received. { «1 didn't see a single wild bomb,” said one pilot returning from the strike. “They were all right on the target.” In addition to the enemy’s ship~| ping losses, 64 Japanese planes were destroyed or damaged aground and aloft, including three ‘snoopers” that tried to scout the allied battle fleet—perhaps in the belief that it was accompanied by an invasion force. There was no word on American and British losses in the first an-| nouncement from Adm. Chester vi Nimitz’ headquarters. Radio Tokyo said without er mation that 18 carrier planes were shot down and 36 others’ damaged seriously,

Japs Retreating

On Borneo Front MANILA, July ‘25 (U. P)— Australian troops and plahes hammered Japanese defenses on the road north of.7 Balikpapan with) near-perfect teamwork today, after R. A. A. F. Spiffires destroyed 18 enemy-laden ‘trupks cayght mine miles north. of Mi. Batochampar.

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Jap Counter Blows In China Repelled

CHUNGKING, July 25-(U. P.)— Chinese troops pressing hard after Japanese units withdrawing from northeast. Kwangsi province have crashed into Yangso, 55 miles south of Kweilin, amid fierce street battles, a headquarters Sommuniaue said today.

2000 Japs Killed

In Burma Drive

"CALCUTTA, July 25 (U. P.).—Allied troops, pushing forward at many points along a T7-mile stretch between Toungoo and Nyauglebin in southern Burma, have trapped and killed over 2000 Japanese attempting

Billy Hamilton Out at City Hall

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that drew some criticism from both the Marion county G. O. P. | organization and City hall's more staid “Republican Victory Committee.” { Hamilton had once been a major domo in the Victory commiftee, Mayor Tyndall's .antiadministration G. O. P. faction. He was especially active last year | in collecting campaign funds for City hall's primary election joust | | with the Marion county organi- | zation. City hall lost. | . The assistant street commis- | sioner was closely identified with a City hall clique unofficially headed by. City Controller Roy E. Hickman.

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ROAD TO PEAGE

‘Burton Tells oe Sls Pact! Francisco- Charter when, taken as

the Bretton Wpods monetary agreement “enlargement of the export-|. import bank's lending powers, and the international food and agricultural organization. “Why have I voted for all these measures and why am I going to [vote for the ratification of the San

a whole, these involve our ‘country very deeply in the affairs of the world and involve us in staggering financial commitments?” he asked. “It is because a despairing, chaotic world is crying for the positive, constructive, dynamic leadership of America. The world needs faith and hope and not fear and despair. Above all, it needs the combined co-operation of all people of good will to bring about new human understandings. “The United States will emerge from this war as not only the strongest nation in the world, but as the one nation whose philosophy of freedom of opportunity - has made us the beacon light of hope for the despairing millions of suppressed peoples in all corners of the earth.” The question over how to authorize allocation of U. S. armed might to the council may produce future complications after ratifi-

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whether he thought Petain had betrayed his country: “In all conscience I must say he betrayed the duties entrusted to him. The word treason has many different meanings. One may commit treason by venality or incapacity, as Marshal Petain did.” ‘I Heard Nothing’ A ~juror raised the question about Petain’s - telegram to Hitler after Dieppe. “It would be preferable that Marshal ePtain reply himself,” Judge Mongibeaux interjected. Looking confused and uncertain, Petain half turned toward Dala“How do you want to give explanations? I heard nothing, IT do not know what it. is all about. " “The judge proposed to read the question all over again, to which Petain replied, amidst a ripple of laughter” in the courtroom, that “I have already said I won't answer?’ Daladier gave a -¢lean slate to the magistrates who heard the notorious Riom war guilt trials,

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when the testimony took a track not to the Nazi liking. - He sald théy behaved like true Frenchmen, He himself was a defendant in those trials, Tearing into the Vichy “new order,” Daladier shouted with his old fire and vigor: “We saw the birth of the movement, which had its inspiration in a gang of sinister people, The popular front did everything, made every-effort the general staff requested. ° “We could not believe that our country’s: flag would be buried in defeat.” q Armistice Plot Charged Yesterday Paul Reynaud, former premier, hit even harder than the embittered Daladier. He charged that Petain “eaten by a désire for power” had been in league with the Germans -since 1934 and headed a plot to make an armistice with the Germans, Reynaud also charged that a “conspiracy” had existed between Petain, Gen, Maxime Weygand, former French commander-in-chief, aided by former Premier Camille Chau-

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Chautemps Denies Conspiracy Charge

WASHINGTON, July 25 (UU, P.), —Former “French Premier Camille Chautemps today denied conspiring with Marshal Henri Philippe Petain to halt French resistance in Jodo, Chautemps, who has been” living here several] ‘years, took: issue with charges made against him yesterday hy -former Premier Paul Reynaud at the Paris treason trial of Petain. Reynaud told the court that Petain, Gen. Maxime Weygand and Chautemps conspired to prevent the French goverriment and army from going to North Africa to continue the war. He said Chautemps suggested at a 1940 cabinet meeting that France ask Germany for. sur-

render terms and that he (Rey-

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25; 1945 Petain Insisted on Armistice Lebran Sobs as He Tells How |

naud) resigned after the proposal was approved, 13-6, » Chautemps said, “My proposal was’ not for surrender, but to ask a high neutral authority—either President Roosevelt or Pope Pius® XII—to inquire about what the terms for an armistice could eventus ally be.”

LACK OF TRANSPORT

“CUTS BERLIN. FOOD

BERLIN, July 25 (U. P.).~The Berliner Zeitung, organ of the Bere lin municipal council, said today that British and Americans had failed to bring in or distribute their share of supplies for .the city, It sald that last week 14,500 tons of -food were made available for Berlin and that “altogether Soviet . authorities during 24 days of July delivered for Berlin 43,128 Yons of food.” As a result of lack of Caneort the Zeitung said the council could only provide 70 per cent of the potato ration. It was learned thas allied food will be rushed to Berlin to relieve the: shortage.

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