| In Tokyo... Food shortages lead the government to
call on the civilian population of Japan to collect 2.5 million bushels
of acorns to be converted into eating material. The average Japanese is
presently surviving on a daily intake of about 1680 calories, or 78
percent of what is considered the minimum necessary to survive.
Over Japan... British and American carrier aircraft continue attacks.
Kobe, Kure and Honshu are bombed. Several of the remaining large ships in the Japanese navy have been hit and badly damaged in the last week, including 3 battleships and 4 aircraft carriers.
In New Guinea... The Japanese 18th Army makes a last stand at the village of Numbogua. General Adachi, commanding the army, orders his troops "to die in honorable defeat."
From Washington... In spite of the Japanese rejection of the
Potsdam ultimatum, General Marshall gives instructions to General
MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz to coordinate plans in readiness for an
early surrender by the enemy.
In Occupied Germany... The Potsdam Conference continues. Atlee, Truman and Stalin confer on politics and strategy, in a town near Berlin.
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