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TYPHOON HITS OKINAWA Thirteen Americans Killed Or Missing

Scores Of Ships Beached

OKINAWA, OCT. 12, TERRIFIC STORM LASHED DESTRUCTIVELY AT OKINAWA LAST NIGHT TO WRECK INSTALLA- TIONS ON A LARGE SCALE AND LEAVE AT LEAST THREE NAVY MEN KILLED, 10 MISSING, AND FOUR JAPANESE PRISONERS DEAD.

INCOMPLETE PEARL HARBOUR FLEET HEADQUAR- TERS REPORTS SAID 52 SHIPS AND 70 MISCEL- LANEOUS SMALLER CRAFT WERE HURLED UP ON THE BEACHES. TWO TUGS, A PATROL YACHT, A BARGE AND A MINE SWEEPER AND BUCKNER

BAY INSTALLATIONS WERE DAMAGED EXTENSIVE- LY.

Four Japanese war prisoners

were killed in the collapse of a frame building behind

they sought refuge.

which

The highest reported wind speed was at Yonaburu airfield where 132 miles an hour was recorded,

The storm struck

Buckner Bay but

over

directly ptost American ships in the anchor- of its approach.

age, warned

and sped to sea.

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tents, empe. hospitals and quonset hut vi- their ripped from

Hundreds

lages were foundations.

bare.

Hospita! wardin were lair! Only night-long work by soldiers kept hospital patients' suffering to a minimunu sociated Press.

HONSHU HIT

Tokyo, Oct. 12. At least 69 were killed and;

thousands were left homeless by a typhoon that hit centrai and southern Honshu Island yester- day, according to preliminary

reports.

Eight thousand homes are known to have been flooded and thousands of acres of land were inundated and suffered heavy damage from washing.

Communications lines were disrupted, making an

accurate checkup in the devastated areas difßcult. Many railway bridges and coaches were known to have been swept into the swirl- ing waters.-Associated Press.

WEST CUT OFF

LONDON SWEATS: SNOW IN SCOTLAND

London, Oct. 12. "Yesterday was the hot- test Mid-October day in London for 50 years. The temperature rose to 72 de- 13 degrees higher grees, than the previous day.

In the northern Isles of- Scotland, however, snow

fell during a severe storm which caused flooding in the lowlands.-Reuter.

British A.B.'s Gallantry In Typhoon

HOW A BRITISH SEAMAN WITH A ROPE LASHED TO HIS WAIST WENT INTO A TYPHOON SEA TO THE RESCUE OF AMERICAN SAILORS CLINGING TO AN OIL BARREL WAS RELATED TO THE "CHINA MAIL" YESTERDAY BY AN OFFICER OF THE BRITISH FLEET TANKER "WAVE KING."

THE STORY CAME UP IN CONNECTION WITH THE TY- OKINAWA ON THURSDAY PHOON WHICH SWEPT

AND IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT THIS WAS THE SECOND OF EXTREME VIOLENCE TO GIVE THE OKINAWA BASE A SHAKING-UP WITHIN A PERIOD OF THREE WEEKS.

"Wave King" was brought

into Hong Kong under tow by

ΠΟΥ

H.M.C.S. Ontario and is Broad

tied up at Davis Pier, North Point.

Her typhoon adventure oc Curred on September 19 when she was one of the few ships left in Okinawa Bay, most of the British and American naval craft having put to sea.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, when the typhoon was at its height, and waves 90 feet decks, high were sweeping, the

company members of the ship's saw three men on a tiny raft being swept by. Casting guns were fired but the lines were hurled back on board by the hurricane.

FREAK OF CHANCE

Agreement In Chungking

CHUNGKING, OCT. 12.

FRANCO DEFIANT

NIGHTMARE JAVA JOURNEY Men Murdered On Train

BATAVIA, OČTU 121 NUMEROUS INCIDENTS BETWEEN INDONESIANS AND THE DUTCH MARRED THE PEACE OF YESTERDAY AT BATAVIA AND, BANDOENG AMONG OTHER PLACES IN JAVA.

FIGHTING HAS ALSO GOING, ON, IT 15 REPORTED HERE, BETWEEN THE JAPANESE BAND INDONE- SIANS IN BANDOENG. IN BATAVIA IT IS STAT-

·ED THAT A NUMBER OF BURASIANA AND DUMMER- MEN HAVE UNACCOUNTABLY DISAPPEARED DUR ING THE PAST FEW DAYS.GA Brolioaraber die A number of Indonesian po-

lico personnel have also been | Apets and also 18 word, killed wounded while helping the al- 'and' 40, wounded in a battle with Hed authorities to maintain lande im podul central: JAV

„Japanese umkret policonating- law and order) an

The Allied Ministry. Apthori-lated Front FindeO

elabla Jesterday between-Fr ties have taken into custody doneiian armed polico naz eight Japanese officials, accus-detachment of British troopis ro- ed of committing atrocities, sulted"fin's one « Loduseelan – killed ngainst prisoners-of-war und and three woundcliffrin internees in Batavia. Among clanh occurred this number is the self-con ocupy a number of houpen

Indonesian police fessed war criminal the Kempet which they had been rejected tai (Japanéto Gestapo), charter Allogodi haring, token

of Buitenzorg. \"/

SHOOTING

Dutch sources report the pre- Rence in Sourabaya of several Japanese marines who possess wednesday when shots, wato

ST

killed and three.

from

firod bordoned road in the heart of atan Indonesian car along a Batavia, in

MADRID, OCT. 12.- ROBERT PAPWORTH, REU-falae German passports and are TER'S CORRESPONDENT IN living "underground."-Reuter MADRID, TO-DAY REPORTED BATAVIA CLASHES SA THAT THE SPANISH GOVERN

Batavia, Oct. 12.

which the front of the building MENT, IN

Anota, the Dutch news agency, declipsink, helording to a Batasia A NOTE ISSUED AT TAB UND OF A SERIES or reported that four Indonesians message received to-day GABINET

THAT were killed and six wounded in car was raidynter havý HAVE BEEN GOING ON FOR clashes with British forces here.. ignored the signalar to stop THE PAST SIX DAYS, CATE. Quoting the Indonesian na-Reuter. GORICALLY DECLARED THAT INTENDS TO PERSIST IN THE

"IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL LINE", INITIATED AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE GIVIL WAR.

It alleged the existence of "vast international communist con- spiracy" directed against “the

very existence of the nation"

MANY DISAPPEARANCES

RAILWAY,"

LONDON, OCT. 12.

"MOBS CONTROL SECTIONS OF THE BANDOENG-

BATAVIA

CABLES THE TIMES" SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT FROM BATAVIA.

At the same time, the GovernHE mont announced a number of bills, establishing the right of associa tion and assembly, and a system of referandums for direct consul- tation of the people on questions of outstanding importance.

was

This is understood here to mean a kind of universal obligatory plebiscite, but no Indication given of how such

referandum would be conducted.

The Government also announced an amnesty for all prisoners son- tenced to terms of over twenty years for purely political crimes committed before the end of the civil war.Router.

Big Tie-Up Of Shipping

LONDON, OCT. 12. THE UNITED STATES AND AUSTRALIA ARE ALSO FAC

STATES THAT TWQ DUTCHMEN, THREE INDONE- SIAN POLICE AND ONE CHINESE WERE MURDER- ED ON THE TRAIN WHICH LEFT BANDOENG ON OCTOBER 4TH. OTHER CHINESE PASSENGERS. ON

THE TRAIN WERE COVERED BY MACHINE-GUNS AND WERE FORCED TO SWEAR ALLEGIANCE. TO THE "INDONESIAN REPUBLIC."

An Australian photographer, come apparent during the next arriving at Batavia on October few days," adds the correspon- 9th from Sourabaya via Ban- dent. doeng reported a nightmare Meanwhile, Dr. H. J.

Van journey although in possession Mock, of a

Lieutenant Governor signed by Dr. General of The Netherlands pass Soekarna's "Home Minister." East Indies, conferred with Ad At each station a gang ofmiral Lord Louis Mount young men armed with spears Batten, Supreme Commander in and knives searched the train, South-East Asin"last "night, making the passengers without and a settlement is to be fasued passes descend,

later.-Reuter. Meanwhile, British and|

Later Dutch officials of the organisa- Signa of a general uprimhog tion for the recovery of ori-throughout Java where Indonesian

·Boners of war to-day, visited Dr. Nationalists led by Doctor | Soo- Soekarno (Head of the “Indonee kärno, are, ta, complete, control Bian Republic) to protest on except for-Batavia were authori purely humanitarian grounds tatingly against the obstruction and dif- for a posts are sends pronaring

The aorted

against Dutch antion is meeting from Nation- alists throughout Java, between the Indonesians and the

PROMISED AID

Japanesó, add the Dotel, Thirty "Dr. Soekarno, has promised Indonesians, were killed and thirty- to give all assistance, says two more wounded in an incident "The Times"

with the Japanese at Pekalongan, correspondent, Central Java, the Nationalist "Whether in fact he possesses controlled Bandoeng Radio report- extremist groupa

should be-seventeen casualtion-Router.

...

NATIONALISTS ING STRIKES THAT ARE ficulties with which the organi-Kore clashes have been reported

CHINESE AND COMMUNISTS HAVE

ON THE ACREED

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MAINTAIN ING PEACE IN CHINA, THEY ANNOUNCED TO-DAY IN JOINT COMMUNIQUE UPON DEPARTURE OF MAO TZE

VITAL

SUP HOLDING UP PLIES

་ AND SHIPPING. idle in New York harbour to-day About four hundred ships are and thousands A

of tons of cargo are piling up on the docks through the strike of port workers.

A message from Sydney says

By some freak of chance, how. TUNG, THE COMMUNIST LEA that Adelaide is facing the worst the necessary control over the eď stoniný, The Japanese entered:

ever, their raft was swept into to- wards the ship's side, and Leading Signalman P. A Flisher wont down a rope ladder and brought them safely on board.

Ten minutes later, three more sailors were observed clinging to an oil barrel.

One man had a broken arm, an other had severe head injuries, and the third, It can be said, was giving all his time to making sure of the relative safety of his comrades.

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first phase

war threat.

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The announcement indicated the coal famine in the history of the se of settling the differ-city. Already thirty thousand BTB idle because of the restrictions ences which brought China's civil men

non-essential in- dustries. Mao said some difficulties re-i mained to be worked out but "the

In Sydney, practically the city's outlook is optimistic."

whole industry will come to a standstill on Monday, when the order prohibiting the use of cles- becomes operative. This is be tricity in factories and offices

coal for the power house whore cause the miners refuse to supply the maintenance workers are on

Mao was the guest of Generalis- aime and Madame Chiang Kai-shok at their home before his departure. The basic agreements come at a time when Nationalist troops are being rushed in American air- planes to points such as the

there armed Communist

1st armies Breat

strength

Pearl Harbour, Oct. 12. Incomplete reports at the United States Fleet Headquarters here said that three navy men were killed and ten were missing in the 132 miles per hour typhoon which struck Okinawa.

The

reporta refer to the ares on st, which had been' unable to

in

Wave Western side of the island.

Donald Leask, who hails United States Army reports the Shetland Isles, volunteered from Manila gave 100 casualties to go to the rescue,

as to whether Communist troops but no deaths as the result of this with a rope round his waist, jump in the field would agree to yield typhoon, but said that installations ed in, fought his way to the oil in case any agreement should de- had been so thoroughly levelled barrel, and took off the man with that the evacuation of nomo forces the broken was urgent.--Reuter.

strike. Although the sens were terrine. Polping and Tientsin areas, where

the East comunicate with the i

Home For Christmas?

LONDON, OCT. 12,

THE MINISTER OF WAR, MR. JACK LAWSON, REPORT-

A seaman

arm.

ore are from

and

in

.

Japanese Radar

TOKYO, OCT. 12.

There are strikes in the steel ALLIED STANDARD Se

works and in the printing trade.

There has been some conjecture-Renter.

prive thens of their own armies. SEVEN MILLION-· Subsequently, The Chungking conferences have the other two wore got safely been proceeding several weeks.-NAZI WAR LOSSES

aboard.

tren

THIRTEEN DROWNED

men

lost their lives.

Associated Press.

SIX POINTS

They were survivors of AN American minesweeper which had been unanimity or an agreement It is reported that there has been swamped by the typhoon and in principle

on the following had drifted across the reef. Thir-

pointa:

"Firatly, long term cooperation Chiang Kai-shek, in order to avoid civil

WAR and bulla # free Independent and prosperous chin

Secondly, the

of politi cal tutelago, substituting the de- mocratisation of

Captain Humphrey, skipper of under the leadership of

the "Wave

act the injured man's arm, and next day when the gule had abnted the bricon Battle put aboard an ship

ED TO THE HOUSE OF COM ADM. KOGA DIED IN

MOND ON HIS RECENT VISIT

TO INDIA, BURMA,

HONG

KONG, SINGALI AND CEYLON FLIGHT

He said that great disappoint

ment was caused among the men

"Thirdly,

pri-

af speech and person and ag

assembly "Fourthly, equal legal status for all political parties and the probi- bition of the party gestapo' and Tokyo, Oct. 12. Japanese sources disclosed to-spacial service organisations. when, owing to the collapse of day that Admiral Minechi Koga, "Fifthly, release of political Japan there was a sudden call on former Commander-in-Chief of the soners and tradit shipping to bring home prisoners Combined Japanese Fleet, was

"Sixthly, punishment of traitors of-war and for the transport of

from American air raids and puppets in accordance with fleeing occupation troops, which made on FalGu when his airplane the process of law."Router.

on Cebu, in the contral

bot Inter died

the

it impossible to give full effoot to Ho was captured by The Remedy-

the reduction in the

eligibility for

The defeat of 7% m

he Ast

Associated

had been waiting for weeks

Bald, bad

London, Oct. 12. The British Prime Minister, Mr. Atties, stated in the House of Commone to-day that the estimated total losses. of the German armed forces in killed, pormånently wound- od and permanent medical casualtion between. September let. 1939 and May 10th. 1945. wore 7,400,000 Retitar

ANSWER TO ATOMIC BOMB

Nazi Death Sentence

DETERMINED THAT JAPA-Military Commission at Heidel

Hand Wiesbaden, Oct. 12. AIR FORCE EXPERTS HAVE The United States 7th Army, NESE RADAR EQUIPMENT WAS FAR BELOW THE

berg, to-day sentenced, Wilhelm Dietermann to death by hang They learned that defence ing for idling a defenceless of the home islands was so in-American airman 'near Buche- offective that they couldn't tell | Hau in Germany, last October. whether approaching planes were Another German accused with their own or American, or even Dietermann was acquittedo Last how many. The Allied experts Tuesday, the same commiş. glenned their information from

Dominicus the fightor control centro here. Bion

They had no effective way of Thomas to hanging for a simi- plotting positions of their own liter crime in September "last. planes, no homing beacons, and Bath sentences will go to Hend no air-son resque system.

quarters to be reviewed. After the fall of Iwo Jima, the Reuter, main Japanese defence came from coast

watchers and ground obser-

sentenced

vers in the Tokyo area. Associat- DEPUTY wo ed Press

| ARRESTED

British Gift

To China

Beirut, Oct. 12. A Lebanese, Deputy named Kazoan, has been arreated by tho Britian Military police, Kazoun was driving to his village late on haa Tresday night aller a

menting tho

amber who a large party:

Military Police stopped

2 Lordon, Oct. 12. The British Government

agreed to make, a gift of certain destroyer types: to the Chinezo.

Financial Secretary**

Ad+ Pis to the

The Lebanese, miralty, John Dugdale, hanbunced immediately a

at

Navy at come future date," the car and-or were called in

1 seventeen Filles.

at the Double-Tenth meeting of Deputy al houso)produced twenty Search of the the China Campaign Committee in more flank London on Weuple day evening

WASHINGTON, OCT. 12. THE HOUSE NAVY COM MITTEE. REPORTED TO-DAY THAT INDICATIONS ARE THAT AN EFFECTIVE' COUN-

A good-will EGA

resolution RIS Kazoun resisted the first search ATER-MEASURE TO THE ATO pashod at the mah

moting an Well and Wardightly, Wounded. He

Dar MIC BOMB ALREADY HAS

messages of congratulations From been taken to the prison hospital BEEN DEVELOPED.

many famous Englishmen wilch-Router. The

statement was based upon were, transmitted to Gibralitcime A London, Oct."-12. the testimony of higu officorn Qucations were asked in the It was not explained beyond the Clap Kaithe fao, Everything, possible would be lian delegration to the Far East House of Commons to-day about statement

that atomic bomba done to remove this block and he Commission meeting in Washing the refusal of certain West End might be exploded for short of hoped

* Landon Oét 12 would be a definite ton on October 21. Reuter restaurants admit people not inity of locating their position." there

their objective: without the neces improvement soon. Ho paid tribute

The civil population of Alder A Chungking message says that evening dress to the men's self-control and un- the request to U.S. marines to The Ministerial reply deplor-28 2016 return by the end of the year

Ausgelated Prusseney Island is to be allowed to derstanding and *`fino bearing occupy Chefog has been cancelled! which, he said, had increased his Communist forces have disarmed ed the mentality, but suggested Volunteers who are proceeding Few of the houses are babita faith in the future of this country. the Japanese thero and control the in their own hands. Reuter. at Headquarters at 8 a.m. to-day. requisitioned hotels. Reuter,

that customers had the remedy to Macho on leave are to parade ble, but they will be put up in

for ships to bring them home. Dr. Evatt will lead the Austra-

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portRouter.

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FOR THIS RELIEF A MUCH THANKSmart

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office, that, with the termination: offer than boeniented through the Commander-in-Chief or local celebrations, the practice persoanel in to edded forthwith. of letting of froworks by Bervice--