| In Canada... In Halifax, Nova Scotia, 15 people
are killed by an explosion at the Royal Canadian Navy arsenal. Firemen
narrowly averted the cataclysmic detonation of the main magazine,
containing about 6000 tons of ammunition, vast numbers of depth charges
and mines.
In Brazil... The Brazilian Expeditionary Force, which fought
with the Allied forces in Italy, parades through Rio de Janeiro, on it
return.
In Occupied Germany... The Potsdam Conference continues. Churchill, Truman and Stalin confer on politics and strategy, in a town near Berlin.
The leaders met for their second plenary session in the Cecilienhof,
an 18th century palace. President Truman informed Prime Minister
Churchill that the atomic bomb test had been successful in a cryptic
note, "Babies satisfactorily born." American interest in
Soviet participation in the war against Japan has been noticeably
lessened.
In Brussels... The Belgian Senate votes to forbid the return
of King Leopold III.
In Italy... Captured German mines explode accidentally,
destroying an American Red Cross club and killing 36 people.
In Wake Island... Aircraft from the American carrier
Wasp attack Japanese positions.
In the Greater Sunda Islands... On Borneo, patrols from the
Australian 7th Division find that the Japanese have evacuated the
Sambodja oil fields.
In Japan... The battleship Nagato, which has been
reduced service as a floating antiaircraft battery, is damaged by
American planes at Yokosuka. Allied air and naval forces strike numerous
other targets in the Tokyo area and encounter almost no opposition.
In China... Some 200 B-24 and B-25 bombers of the US Far East
Air Force, based in Okinawa, bomb Kiangwan airfield near Shanghai. |
