SMOULDERING RUINS
LARGE PART OF TOKIO DESTROYED CABINET HOLDS EMERGENCY MEETING NEW YORK, April 17. " Fire-blackened, burning Tokio is emerging from a week-end of misery and horror, after visits by Super-Fort-resses and swarms of long-range based fighters," says the ' New York Times' correspondent on Guam. "Twenty-first Bomber Command disclosed that the destruction of the city's militarily-useful industrial targets is well past the halfway mark, not counting the results of the latest raids. It is estimated that 27J square miles of Tokio's industrial area are now gutted and .in smouldering ruins. A staff officer said that not even in Europe had the reduction of a city proceeded so swiftly and systematically." Tokio radio announced that the Cabinet met in an emergency session after the raids. The Imperial Palace grounds were thrown open to thousands of refugees.
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Evening Star, Issue 25462, 18 April 1945, Page 5
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