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Now here's Robert Trot. Japanese broadcasters saying that some A.H. super fortresses have made an attack today on the Tokyo district, while other American bombers raided the island of Formosa, the peninsula of Korea, and the Chinese city of Nanking, capital of the puppet government.

Allied headquarters in Manila does report that Philippine-based American bombers attacked Formosa, but there is no allied confirmation of the other raids which the enemy mentions. has any word yet come from any allied source regarding the fleet movements which the Japanese continue to announce. Today the latest story from the enemy is that the allied task force

is attempting to approach Kyushu, the southernmost Japanese home island. The fighting on Okinawa is still intensely bitter, but the latest reports from correspondence at the front there say that Japanese artillery fire is beginning to slacken along the battle line at the southern end of the island. A Chung King communique announces that the Chinese troops, who recaptured

the mainland port of Fuqiao, have pushed six miles to the east in an effort to pin the Japanese forces against the coast. Japanese Premier Suzuki, speaking to a Tokyo conference of officials who are concerned with affairs on the Asiatic mainland, urged them to strengthen Japan's war effort on the continent of Asia. In Europe, it's been officially announced at