Late news tonight tells of still more B-29s over
Tokio -- this being the second strike by
the
Super-
Fortresses in the course of one night.
-=---__.;~~
Early today the Jape told of a aidnigbt attack
by
the ~iants of the air, an
eneay
report
ti
I
71
confirmed late today
by
the lray lir Foroea:T It•••
~
the first night raid"ataged by the B-291, the other
aaaaulta on Tokio ha•ing been in the
dayti ■••
The
Japanese radio declared that incendiary boaba were
dropped and that fires were atarted,
a■x
Tokio bla1in1
at night:it'And now the lateat
•••••••••xkJ
announce■ent
,, ot
a
B -
'
29
follow up, force•
ot
the big plane•
■weeping
over Tokio at dawD.qaiaJx-incendiarJ
~~
~~~
bo■b~"£aA
dropped~
~
eti
11
·
at the
came
fires•• e
started --
blaz·
The
J
ap
st
te of mind is indl
ca
ted by
_
a
vicious
p
ropaganda broadcast aade today --
sort
of thing full of hjat~rical insults and threats.
The
J
ap
r
6
dio announcer declared in fr
a
ntic tones tha
if
any of the
airmen
of
the
B-29a
••i•
bail out over
Japan, they will be lynched -- killed by
angry
■ obs.
This new menace of Japanese brutality can only
stir the recollection of how, after the Doolittle
bombing of Tokyo, some of the American
airmen were
captured by the Ja s -- and an unspecified
nuaber were
executed. And no
the Far Eastern
enemy
threatens new
.
crimes
ag
inst American fliers.
The Japs have taken anoth
e
r bad
atte ■pts
to reinforce their troopa on L e 1 t • ; - - -
\>Cd41A4.
thirteen
enem¾•I
t;A
destroyed.
Growded troops ships,
scat
aaking ·their way toward
ueyte
1
L
ti
J
were attacked by Aaerican fighter
planes.
There waa
a
two day battle, plane againat
ship, with the Aaerican pilot• concentrating on three
enemy destroyers.
The•• were
aunt
togeth•r with ten
troops ships.
It ia
eati ■ ated
tba\
a
■ iillliill••
~
thousandl\Japs were 1•1t -- increa1ing
to
twenty-on•
thousand the total
of
ene■J
aold1era sacrificed in
atte ■pts
to run reinforceaenta to Leyte.
,
r
n,(.
~
~ PP
ate i:ndtntu
tllu,~ll-
1'.Japs
are preparing
to
launch
heavy counter-attacks on
Ley
t
e.
~~---~r-H-J...~bA-~1-H~t-f-he-,,i1~-?1t-+ffl....,.-..
ea1Pgy
~e
■■■ •~·! ■811
f8PQ81
fop a
eig
laertffe-
al1
eaay
t.1J
in~
■ iaet
eeuat11
•ff•••i•••
~~
.
•~oday they claia
AM
they've
aade
progess and cut
one important road along the coast -- trapping an
Aaerican force~The Jape also make another claia --
that
they have
invaded
the
island of
Morotai.
Thia ia
one
of
the
places
uacArthur
took
·
in
preparation
for the
Phili
pp
ine
offensive
--
Uorotai df.he n~rthern tip
/\
of Hew Guin
a,
five
hundred and sizty miles
f■•
south
,
)
of
Leyte.
The
Americans
established
an air base there,
,
and
now the
Japs
declare
th t they
have landed
troops
on
orotai
n
d
thht
heavy fighting
ia raging on
the is land•
'e
hav
a
s
umm
a
ry of tbe exploits of Admiral
Halsey's
Third F
l
t,
which
powerful
ar■ada
staged
a ninety-day
sweep against the
Jnps -- a sweep that
culmin
a
ted in the
great
naval and
air
battles off the
Philippines.
The
suaaary
gives figures and tella
of
three thousand, four hundred and
fort7-aix Japanese
planes
shot down, sixty-two
ene ■y
warabipa sunk, an4
three hundred and seventy-eight Jap cargo
vessels
4...
ent
to the bottom. That's.._ statistical account
~
of
the Haley
triu ■p~s
during
three
■e ■orable ■ ontba.
And now a bit of dramatic action.
DESTROYER
_
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---------
a
i i
I
eds
•••••t
i•n
st? ,
.
•••
•
yen
a.ea'
t,
L.£
l'N'9'1
,
.
• • •
•tioisll bhua ua
\ba
•dh
·
~c::!!t;
tow
a(
we
I
1
e Un~entionableJ --
la
as That
I
s what they are
calling a warship,
a
destroy~r, which now takes
its
It■
plade on the honor role of the
N!-VJ..
~*x~ true
name
cannot be mentioned for reason• of military
secrecy. An~ so the news dispatch calls the gal
l
ant
destroyer --
the
Unmentionabli.
Today
the
Navy
d isc
\
loses one phase
of
the
great sea and air b
a
ttles off the Philippines
several weeks ago, a phase
that
has
hitherto
been
kept secret. We were informed
at
the time
that,
while
~
the
Japane
-
se
fleet
was
smashed
up so
bad
l
y,
•e~f/ieiti,:.
incurred some losses.Among these were two deetroyers,
one destroyer escort, and two escort aircr
a
ft carriers.
And i t
n
ow turns out th t
1
~ . ,
were
sunk
in one
single clash of
battle, a phase of th- engagement
that may have saved the Maclrthur invasion.
A powerful
eneay
squadron, which included
battleships and cruisers, appeared to have almost a
clear way to the beacbheada on Le7te
Island.
In tt1
path was only a
.
small group of American deat~oyera
,
"
and escort
carriers. And this l!ittle
ta1t --.
force undertook to sto
p
the ponderous
eneay __ ateaaing
apsinst b
a
ttleships and heavy cruisers.
It
w
as an utter
l
y unequal battle, yet the
saall
American vessels hit the Jape h
n
rd__.e destroyers,
~
ith thei
r
guns and torpedoa, the escort carriers
with
their p
l
anes.
They •irtually sacrificed
themselves to check the powerful
Japanese
drive
againat
the L
yte beachhe
a
ds.
Two de~troyers
were
sunk
leei
ea~
J&hneha,
80
wee the
deat1u;ar ••••••
Ba••••
•
•
th
i
... , , ..
a
Atttl
two wcott
t&Hl@FS
WCI&
85 ■
••
.
--
.
.
~-·· 1
i
hhe
&ts.
LO
aca
tbe
I
One
o
f the American ships in
t
he fight was
the de
s
troyer that cannot be
named
the Unmentionable.
W
e are
g
iven only the
identity
of
her skipper,
C
omm
a
nder Amos a
~
thaway
of
Chevy Chase, Marylaotl.
C
t
k
thJ"nmention
a
ble straight at
omm
a
nder H
~
th
aw
ay
oo
rr
the J
ape
nese b
a
tt
l
es
h
i
p
s
·
and cr
u
isers.
-
-
• • a
a
ca•
flfle111
t,
he
zs
J
d ■
••
•f •
U1
.
--
,.
bi I
&
at
al
ttu
1a1 ■,
1
iRP-
I flttd
1as1a , , . , • • • '
i
"
pc•••
-1
I •
us;
3
ad i»bua
••• h•.,-••
~
dispatch
state■:
•When
tha
Un ■ entionable
approached within eighty-fi•e hundred
yards, salvos of fourteen-inch
shell• roared close
overhead.(The
destroyer, like
a fox terrier
nipping
at a
pac•
of wolfhounds,
anawered with
her
five-inch
guns.•
The
aim
of t h e _ , - ~
g~ns •aa •
little high, very
little --
and the fourteen-inch
shells went
scr
aming
by, a
mere
few
feet
above
the
Unaenti
0
nable) Coamander
■ath••aJ kept plowing
II<
,/4u~,6L/
alon
g
,
an¥,ot
w
ithin torpedo range.
IS
1
1At1~
last
three,
anl
one scored a bit --
exploding
against the
Bide
of
ab ttleship of the
Kongo
class, damaging
it
severely.
turned froa the battleshi~ and attacked
8
cruise~
l•z•ki■8X
11st
~i::g
liga•
ara••
•«aiait
II•••••
tall•
h■t
I
■a
ID•
ikall:UC::~~uperatructure ~ •
were
•ts
saatsss
SL
But now enea, ahell•Ahitting the
Un ■enti
o
nable,
and the destroyer was hea•il7
da■aged.
44,.)
~
the whole powerful
Jap
squadron turned
away.
Just why, the Americans could-n't guess. After
alaoal
destroying
the
little
Aaerican suicide task
.
force, the
Japs
afPeared
to have a clear and open way
to
the bea&bheads on Leyte. Instead of taking the
opportunity, they withdrew --
and it aay be that
this
was bec
a
use they
had
been·so badly
daaaged
by the
destroyers and
Mia'-
planes of the escort carriera.,
fn
which
case,
th
,U
nmenti
,
neble
and her
sister
ships
of
the
little
task
force
__ may
have saved the
Philip
;
ine
CBiliA
------
~
In China, Chiang
/\.
Kai skek'-
6overn ■ent
today
issued
a
statement to quiet popular fears. le are tol
th
E
t people of Chungking, business element• in
~
particulari\bece ■e
panicy, because
ot
the continuing
advance of the Japanese.
Ni..&:
tlta
-Clll ■11w ■ ••ton•••~
l:llfiA:t;\
And today,
w o r ? ~
Lb
a
t
the
Japa,
puJhing on, had come closer to Chungkin1 tha
Ms
11111
-..
,
n
OJ.
.
&
at any previous
ti ■ e
since the beginning of the China
war. ~ r e
no•c:;'f'A.,.__,...IIILIDhundred'and fifty
■ilea
of the seat of .Mcs::elli-..•flll• Government.
A
The Japs are
■oving
in the direction of the
i■ portant
city
of
lweiyang, and tbia
pro ■pted
the
Chungking authorite• to issue the following
state■ent
:
of reas6urance:
•Japaneae
colu■na
striking
toward
Iweiyang do not present a direct threat t
~
Cbungting.•
tf'rbe mere fact that such assurances a~e needed to quiet
panicy fears is
a
vivid
indication of
the present
unfortunate course of the war in China.
It
is denied
that ladaae Chiang Iai-Sbek will
remain permanently in the United States.She ii over
here now
for
medical
treatment,
and the atorJ ••• that
she
would not
~o
back to China.
A
London
newspaper quoted ita correspondent in
Calcutta as saying that he had the word
fro■
an
observer
who
had recently arrived
fro ■
•1, ....
China.
This
observer stated that
in
China be was told that the
wife of
War
Leader Chiang Iai-Shek planned to establish
her permanent residence at
Mia■ i
Beach, Florida.
During the recent
goYirn■ent
shake-up in
'
China, there
were rumors that all was not serene between
the
Generalis ■ imo
and
his active and intelligent wife,
•ho ha}
played so
important a
part
in
Chinese politics.
And this
ent probab
i
lity to
the story that
Mada ■e
Chiang
~
would
make
her future
home in
the
United
St
a
tes.
Ho
ev
r, the whole
tbine
is denied --
denied by
the
Vice Premier of China. Through the
Chinese Embassy in Washington he calls the report
'an unmitigated falsehood.•
J-.
f
The latest from the Western Front is a new dri••
·
launched
by
the
A■ erican
liatb
AeaJ.
T~• linth
i1
teamed up in front of Cologne with General
Hodge'•
first
Army.
The new powerful attack is thrustin1
~
toward the Roer RiverJATbe
fir1t rush acored gain1
fro ■
one half
to three quarter• of
a aile~ -
both
armies, in today's
fighting.l'captured aeven towna.
The battle in front of Cologne
is desperate,
with the Germans describing the conflict
in
tbeae
'
oanious words:
•the most terrible and ferocioua battle
in
the history of all
war•••
---
•
,
E
S
T
E
RN FRONT -
?
--------------~
.
nd
that
enemy opinion
is
emphasized
by
a
d
is
p
atch
f
ro
m
United Press Correepon ent
Jack
Fr
a
n
k
iab,
who t
e
ls of the utter destructi
o
n of
ene
-.,,f
-tbG'ltoe.4
Beautiful
~•••zf•}(_
of ol
d
tons in
the
8e"Nl99
Rhineland --
a
l
a
n
d
f
a
m
u
f
or
ch
a
rming
and
p<&"ic
towns.
The
U.P.
a
a
n
c
bl
C
o
"It
i
s
becomin
e
vident th
at
if the
.
Germ
a
ns r
e
i
s
t th
a
t
stubbornly all
th€
ay to the
l::t'Qe R
h
ine,
e
very
city,
t
o
wn,
vill
ag
e
a
nd
h
aml
e
t
in
t
he R
'1
in
€
l
'
nd \
"
i
ll
be de
st
roy d."
led st
on€
1ouses
m
a
ke
excellent
strong points,•
he
r
it
.
, "
a
n
must be re uced
gradually
with
air
boll ..
,
ar
ti
l
lerJ
"
nd tanks.
9hen ~he aefeade•a,•
a ..
uet fiaally
ee
routed fro.ellare with
gi.aaaee
&nd
nail
ar ■ •~
When
this
r,rocess
is
completed:
be concludes, "there is not a single house left
standing
in the town."
~i '""""
1191p11ruU7
t:•
t.e
be--4hr f_.e
ef1ftn
. , .
. ,
•• 01'fs
w~ele
~hinelftnd, wi~h
i~e l•«•a••
a~••*••~
an
lle ■&ne@?
In other
words,
the Nazis,
h,vin
rought
o
mu
h
destru
cti
0
n in other countries, are now
ti1lut
bringin
c
ut the~estruction of their own.
,/
/
From Ettro e t'onigh
,,.
/
beet)
e French th
)16
adopt
At
Strasbourg
1
Brigadier General Leclerc,
Coaaander
of
the French Second Araoured DiYi1ioD
~
.
I
announced~that
fiYe German hoatagea
will
be executed
f
eYery
Fren h
soldier killed by Geraan guerrilla enipera.
This edict w s posted throughout the city, and added
that the
d
eath penalty will be inflicted on any person
••••ixa
convicted
of
helping
ter■an gue•rillas or being
in
osse
ss
i
o
n of ille
g
al weapDDB~D the
ho■tage
threat
the French Commander st
a
ted th
a
t persona to be executed
will be drawn from a group
of
prisoners held by
hi■
di · ·
f
·
hostages to be s bot for everv French
Y 18
l Ont
l Ve
"
■ oldier
killed in Strasbourg.
Therese
ms, hawev~r
t
/
,
0
•
som
t 1
actual
carrying out
;
/
occup tion
!'
of
StrheVourg
An
American
aray
representative of Civil
Aff
a
irs
passes
a wild one
along
-- a story that Geraan
girls
h
a
ve
been luring taerican soldiers
.
to their
roo■•
bloodcurdler,
~
.A.,4..
and
then
murder
ing them.
This/\-l■■isazilia•nr ■ul
G . 1 . J : e ~
~
/'
I
Dar
get
only
a
big laugh fro•
~-
The
S
ovi
t offensive in
Hun
ga
ry
on
•
-
,
ith
a
new crossing of the Danube one hundred
miles north
of Bud
pest.
Rm
sian troops today
.
drov.e
ahe
ad
for
&
t
~
·enty-five
mile
advance,
and
their goal
is
ustria.
The Germans
ad
mit
the Bussians have
bro
ken
t
hr
ough
.
in
Hung
a
ry,
and
a
dd --
•A great b~tt\e
i
s
begin
in
to develop.• 1f;his
Ill&)'
be
:the
decisive
battle
in
the
Red~rmy
drive across
the
plains
of
Hun
ga
ry
~
nd
to
w
ard
German frontiers.
~
B
'
a
na
a
,
t
.
e
M
c ~nzie
Kin
·
Gov rnment
0
p
u
y
uc e
ully
t
rou
the
Co
n
c
ripti
o
n crisis
.
The latest
i
)
that
se
r
ies
o
co promi
es,---th
Canadian
Prime
inister is
li
ely to
ep hi
Cab
inet
in po.er.
And
also the
i
~c
oni nt
in
the
Canadian
Home
Army
s
eems
eems
o be
l
e
. sharp
--
with
a
quieting down
cif
the angry
em
onstrations by Car.adian soldi
e
rs against proposals
of
a d
r
aft f
or overse
a
s war duty.~One announcem
e
nt
to
da
wa
th
a
t
French Canadian troops stationed in
oth
er
parts
of
Canada
will
be returned to thier home
p
r
o
vince o
f Q
ue
b
ecJ
f
or further tt-aining• it was
ex lained,-- a.n
d
the statement was added that most of
the
soidiers
in the anti-conscription demon
s
trations
"' e
r
e
Fr
en
ch
-
C an ad
i
ans
_"\( I n Ott o" a, t o
d
a Y
, Pr
i
me
Mini
ter
Mackenzie
Kin
protested
again
t
the
use of
the
w
or
d
•mutiny•.
He was
aske
d
what
he
in
tend
d to
do
about
t
e soldier's
riotioss protests
a
g
ainst
BmR&~ri,x
con~cri
tion,
which his questioner
c
all
e
d
•
mutiny
•.
"
I
t
.
;
~
;...
•
Mackenzie Kin~ resoonded
CAN
DA
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ith
vi
~
o
r,
w
it ~o
t decidedly is not
•.
FL
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o:
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~
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f
~
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(
o
v
ie
J,
r
2.
.v
e
e
son
l
cc
e
om
e ti
e
s
eek.
i
lO
'5
?
·
n
C
irc.
11
&
tin
-
'
c..
n
to
E.
y
r
a
e
e
o
&,
•
o
Y
e
s,
it i
tr
e
We
'l
_a
n
to
be
a r i
d
i
t
:
i n
t
h
e
\
·
e e
k,
b u
t
e
d
on
' t
_
n
O
w
exactly
lliott oo evelt confirms
t
h
is.
Relayin
a
me
a
b
·
o
a friend,
hes id
o
y:
"Y
r
, it
is tr
u
~
1
i
1
b
th
third
weddin
for
President
,
00
1
's
s
c
on
d
son.
He
has
thre
c ild en b
a
n
vi u
rril
Eliott
Roosev l
t
is
t
irty-four,
n
·
·
e
m r
on
._
t
en
ty -
s
v en . I\
w
·
1
b
e
he
r
en
rel;
d
o
th
t
_
11
_
:
__
--=---=-
-=
-
Bri
0
e
'
acs
.
T
h
e
nc..,
lot of
ubl
i
i
ty,
n
d
then
the
re
ort
,·
a
d
en
ied
.
T
is time the rumor
urn
o
u
0
t
rue,
th t
l
liott
o
os
v
lt i
l
l
m rr
h
l
onde
ac
tre
s
of
t
he
f
i
lm
s,
ho
hn
p
·
r
l
n
.
v
nteen moti
o
n
p
ictur
s.
-
---
-
(