PREPARING DEFENCE
ENEMY GOING UNDERGROUND (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.) Rec. 11.30 a.m. NEW YORK, June 6. According' to the newspaper "Asahi," quoted by Tokio radio, the Japanese homeland has been impregnably fortified by extensive underground fortresses with a network of communications, foodstuffs, ammunition, supply dumps, kitchens, bathrooms, and even stables, all invulnerable to bombing, "though the enemy may deal the heaviest losses to cities and factories.
The invaders could land, but would be unable to discover these positions. Should the enemy find the weak points, and direct concentric fire against them, the positions would not be damaged in the least.
The "Asahi" added: "We are preparing a new kind of underground warfare so differing from European experience that it will mark a new epoch in military history. Soldiers and civilians, burning with a sublime fighting spirit, are working day and night to consolidate the fortresses, which will be incomparable both in striking and defence powers. "All the operations since Guadalcanal have given Japan sorely needed time, but the homeland operations will be completely different. The enemy must throw immense numbers' of troops, many times larger than our forces, into the landings which may be expected in the near future."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 133, 7 June 1945, Page 7
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