NAGOYA IN FLAMES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 141, 16 May 1945, Page 6

NAGOYA IN FLAMES

NEW YORK, May 14 Crews returning from the' raid on Nagoya reported that a 17,000 ft column of smoke covered Nagoya and the flames were visible 60

miles away, says the United Press

correspondent on Guam. The attack, which exceeded in weight most of the raids against Germany, was the most concentrated incendiary raid of the Pacific war. It underlined the official warnings that Japan faces even greater destruction than Germany unless she surrenders. The Tokio radio quoted an imperial communique saying that many fires were started in Nagoya but most were extinguished by noon. The radio added that interceptors were, sti'll attacking the task forces, from which 900 carrier planes were operating. Fleets of giant new bombers are being built in Britain for mass attacks on Japan, said Mr John Storey, director of the Beaufort division of the Commonwealth Department of Aircraft Production, on his return to Australia after six months in England and the United States. The new bomber would have the same bomb capacity as the standard Lancaster, but it would have much greater range and heavier armament. In the United States factories in all parts of the country were turning out Super-Fortresses or SupcrI Fortress parts for the war against Japan.