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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 65, 17 March 1945, Page 5

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.Casualties Ini Japanese Cities DESTRUCTIVE TLS. BOMB Rec. 10 a.m. NEW YORK, March 16. ■ Tokj'o broadcasts admitted heavy .loss of life and .damage.in the recent fauner Fortress raids* The Asahi ShFmbuh skid the 'number of deaths in Tokyo;'Nagbya and Osaka in the past week could, never be called smalL The Chinese Army newspaper Sao Tarig Pao said . that one Japanese Cabinet Minister and 14 members of •.the Diet were kijled in recent Tokyo raids. 2 U ; Tokyo radio quotes the' Japanese Information Board spokesman as saying that many townsmen were bombed out, thousands severely injured and thousands burned to death in ■ the' Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka raids. I Colonel Whitesides, chemical warfare: expert, revealed that the new M 6& ;firebomb, r used. , against Tokyo, .Nateoya .'and. ,Osaka is a six-pounder. 'It "Burns itotni eiglit to ten minutes at t a temperature .of above 3000 degrees . Fahrenheit. It clings tenaciously to any surface and in flight sprouts four cotton gauze streamers acting as tiny parachutes to regulate the bomb's speed and .penetrative force. The bomb, after 'detonating, coughs flaming gasoline .jeH< ; 2s yards, in all.directions.