Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace                              Ill 32 Cairo four cents soviet action will save to i f a i thousands of yank l the japanese news Agency reported that the red attacked Jap forces on the Eastern soviet Manchukuo after Midnight army Border Russia has declared War on Japan As from August this inspiring not altogether was announced in the states by president Truman at quickly summoned press conference wednesday the effect on official Washington was coming As it did Only two Days after revelation of the atomic one immediate question came to All lips since obviously this would also shorten the War with would it Lead to further reduction of the the War intimated it has no immediate plans for changing its program and hinted that Stimson might comment on the matter Moscow radios announcement i tie Longhope for action said that foreign minister Molotov received the japanese ambassador to Moscow and said that the allies had requested Russia to join in the War against True to their the soviet Union have accepted the As from August the soviet Union at War with soviet action apparently stems from arrangements concluded by president Truman and Generalissimo Stalin at the allies invade their request of the soviet Union on the basis that it conclusion of the fighting and the coming 6f m president is known to have gone to Potsdam with the strongest desires to cat Down on loss of american life in the Pacific top officials were Quick to declare that the declaration of War by the russians Tatnay save hundreds of thousands of americans from injury or tremendous military blow to japs this cause is said to have determined the president on urging the Potsdam meeting As quickly As though it would take Bim from the states at a time when the United nations charter was pending before the reconversion problems were mounting and the japanese War was at its the japanese had been rumoured shortly before the Potsdam talks to have asked Russia to act As intermediary in peace feelers with the on july 29 the United Britain and China called Ifor the unconditional surrender of the japanese armed this was quickly rejected and the soviet Union new takes the stand the japs request to the soviet to act As intermediary in the far War was the soviets declaration is a tremendous military blow to the not Only is the japanese Mainland within 600 Miles of the Vladivostok air but Russia has built up a Vust military organization opposite Manchuria and with even stronger reinforce ments transferred since be Day from the German japanese forces massed in various parts of the Asiatic Mainland Are thought to total about two with at least half in the Yel Low sea but besides hawing the chinese to the forces face the russians in the it is expected that the United states will continue to Bear the Brunt of the air War against Japan and possibly an while Russia neutralizes and presses Forward on the Asiatic the soviet air Force is not believed geared for Long Range bomb ing assaults on the Jap Home although russian planes May dominate the Buriles the Jap half of Sakhalin the Russia on Page 2 Enrico of Columbia uneven hat been named by the War As one of american credited with the development of the atomic own Truman directing atom bomb blows Washington it has been announced that president Truman is personally assuming the atomic bomb Campaign against meanwhile the High com Mand stated though it is hopeful that the new terrifying device May accomplish unconditional plans Are going for Ward for a land invasion of the japanese As a the army is standing firm by its estimates that it will need men to Complete the echoes of the atomic bombing were heard when Many senators expressed the View that the United nations should take Over the super vision of the new1 atomic Wiley asserted that this country should not give its secret to the Omahoney voiced View shared by Many you cant Chain the mind of this discovery will not re main a we must see to it that it is used for peaceful Pur poses and theunc10 is the logical Agency to do sob wept entire a second atomic the most terrifying destructive agent the world has was dropped at noon wednesday on a Kyushu City of More than Spaatz announced that results of the second carried out by a Riana based were i the obliterating blast of the first atomic dropped by a Lone super fort on destroyed 60 percent of important Jap military and Industrial base about 300 Miles West of five military targets were Aud four and on tenth Square Miles out of the cites six and nine tenths Square Miles were levelled by this on bomb blow waa delivered Only 21 Days after its first teat in the United reconnaissance photographs showed the heart of the City devastated with awful thoroughness As if a giant Bulldozer had swept up buildings and houses and dumped them into a High flying camera circling Hiroshima a few hours after the history making found Only two Small fires the remainder of the City appeared turned to photographs proved conclusively that the one Small enough to be carried by any lighter or greater demo and destruction thousands of tons of Ordinary find radio Tokyo wednesday that practically Al living human and were literally seared to death by the atomic bomb which fell on the Force of the bomb was so it that those outdoors burned to death while those indoors were killed by pressure and enemy broadcast indicated the appalling effect of the single atomic bomb by stating that Relief workers in Hiroshima Are unable even to distinguish the dead from the much less identify could not count civilian casual let the City was left in disastrous ruin with houses and buildings continued the authorities could not establish the extent of civilian casualties and had their hands full giving every available Relief possible under the destruction was admittedly so heavy that even emergency medical facilities were burned out and Relief squads were rushed from r Irron Dlug crewmen on tue piloted by reported that smoke Rose to feet above likening it to the effect from the explosion of an am although the plane itself ten Miles away and several Miles High when to Bixb e b29 was rocked As if an anti aircraft Shell had close a crewmen wore glasses but the visual Impact of the explosion was so tremendous and the blinding Flash so great that porno men cried news of fhe atomic bomb and thai historical attack on Hiroshima was revealed to the world by president who the Force from which the Sun draws its Power has been loosed against those who War to the far he described the bomb As Havener More than times the blast now or of the British grand or the Sam As in performs loaded to capacity with 10ton we knew that the germans were Worklin feverishly to finn a Way to add atomic Energy to the other in vines of War with which 3ee Nagasaki on Pace 2 atomic optimism in new Gotham Rio lice officials Are working out special arrangements for policing the metropolitan area of the City on the Day of Victory Over Washington a relatively Small increase of combat casualties during the past week raised the combined armed for Ces total since the beginning of the War to of War Stimson released a breakdown of army which now total it shows killed wounded missing and a breakdown of Navy casual now was not re first Battle Wagon to throw naval steel into Jap Homeland smoke am Hame from the of 6irvch guns at a Batrla Phlp of harm it third Fleet she flt tace Kamasaki town area of Northart Honshu this operation marked the first naval bombardment of Honshu Corporal Newman loses Brave fight fort Jahries 25yearold Bataan Veteran whose health was shattered try Jap died Satur Day the Home of his his death followed a remarkable fight for life which had touched the heart of the although Newman had survived the infamous death March and three years of starvation in japanese prison the ordeal caused tuberculosis of Throat a month army doctors told the Soldier that his Case was hone Jess and allowed him to return his mothers Home to his Battle for life lasted 31 Newman died from sheer sex his doctor