Lawrence: Why so few Jap captives?
Fears figures indicate Yanks kill wounded enemies
By David Lawrence
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Uniform rule in Germany is aim of Allied Council
Holds first meeting under Eisenhower; bolsters hopes Reich will be governed as an entity
By Daniel De Luce, Associated Press war correspondent
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Iron men just scared tin soldiers as Nazis quake behind barbed wire
By George Tucker, Associated Press staff writer
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U.S. State Department (July 31, 1945)
Log of the President’s Trip to the Berlin Conference
Tuesday, July 31:
At 0900 Brigadier General Stuart Cutler, Commanding General, Berlin Headquarters District, came to the Little White House and called on the President and General Vaughan.
1000: Mr. Rowan, Prime Minister Attlee’s secretary, called on the President.
Mail was dispatched to Washington this afternoon.
1545: The President left the Little White House for Cecilienhof.
1600: The eleventh meeting of the Big Three was convened. This turned out to be a long session as the meeting did not adjourn until 1915. The President left immediately for the Little White House.
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The Syonan Shimbun (August 1, 1945)
248 enemy aircraft downed, damaged over Nippon Saturday
Foe Kure raiders pay heavy toll
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Another devastating airstrike carried out against foe ships
Third successive assault in three days
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Stalin resumes talks after short indisposition
LISBON (Domei, July 31) – Soviet Premier Josef Stalin who had been slightly indisposed and absent from the discussions since Sunday, resumed the talks this afternoon with American President Harry Truman and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, according to a Berlin dispatch.
It is understood that during Stalin’s illness, Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov represented Stalin in the discussions with Truman and Attlee.
Berlin press reports state that Attlee will be returning to Britain after today’s meeting to attend the swearing-in ceremony, of the newly appointed British Cabinet Ministers, scheduled for tomorrow, leaving British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin to carry on at Potsdam.
Thai hospital bombed
BANGKOK (Domei, July 31) – The Home Defence Command announced that some six enemy B-24 bombers attacked the Thai capital with demolition bombs Sunday from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The announcement said enemy aircraft caused some damage to military facilities while the Siriraj Hospital, built by Rockefeller Foundation funds, was badly damaged. It added that three bombs of large calibre dropped on the hospital buildings caused heavy casualties. The poops of the hospital were clearly marked with huge Red Cross signs.
$1 million damage in U.S. plane crash
LISBON (Domei, July 30) – The spectacular crash of an American Army Mitchell bomber into the Empire State Building in New York on Saturday is estimated unofficially to have caused damage amounting to a sum of about $1,000,000, according to a New York message.
At least 13 lives were lost and 26 others seriously injured, the dispatch said.