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Secret Pact Alleged By Roosevelt, Stalin On Jap-Held Lands London, Aug. 12 (AP) The London Sunday Observer said today "it is generally understood" Premier Stalin and the late President Roosevelt reached a "secret" agreement "before Yalta" concealing the future of Japanese-dominated countries bordering Soviet Siberia. The newspaper listed these as the points of the reported agreement: Manchuria to become an independent republic but temporarily 7 200 Air ylZy STATUTE Mill miV RUSSIA fY AmurR A.U te ITsfJl A ShiSchn. jr Komsomol Soviets Capture Rashin And Yuki In Drive That Threatens To Trap TIME LIMIT ON ANSWER? 500,000 Jap Troops Still In China. within the Soviet zone of occupation Portsmouth Treaty of 1905, which ended the Russo-Japanese War, to be annulled.

This would end the London, Aug. 12 AP) Russian Marines, landing after a naval American Warship Struck By Aerial Torpedo As Japs Delay Reply. Bt ASSOCIATED PRESS American and British carrier planes attacked the Tokyo area at dawn today after the Japanese had torpedoed and damaged a major American warship at Okinawa and a White House announcement, aaid Fleet Goes Into Action Japanese annexation of Korea but the newspaper said the future of that country was not definitely settled. Outer and Inner Mongolia to be united in a single republic, nominally independent but in the sphere bombardment, today captured the Korean ports of Yuki and Rashin, 100 mile- southwest of Vladivostok, as Tokyo reported a massive new Russian drive in Manchuria that After Two-Day Lull-Truman Standing By of Soviet economic and foreign threatened to trap perhaps 500,000 fj INNER ViVvjr 'HARBIN M'fK MONGOLIA -rJS tltlf Japanese troops in China. Washington, Aug.

12 (UP) Yuki and Rashin, ports on the Sea of Japan, were points from the Pacific War "still is in progress." Adm. Chester Nimitz said the new assaults on military targets at Tokyo were continuing. DAYS SINCE PEARL Jaoan has not yet replied to the which the great enemy war in rr sinking I if dustries in Manchuria shipped "The word from Japan has not been received." James F. Byrnes, Secretary of State, entered the White House less than an hour after Ross talked with reporters. He failed to comment after talk ing with Mr.

Truman. tneir production to the homeland i hey were captured by landing parties rrom Adm. Ivan Yuma- Allied surrender terms, the White Housa announced tonight, and it declined to say whether Japan must answer within a specified time limit. It said that "the war is still In progress." policy. Karafuto, the Japanese half of Sakhalin Island, to be returned to Russia and certain of the Northern Kuriles leased to Russia to provide direct access to the ice-free Soviet Pacific naval base of Petra-pavlosk.

Russia to acquire the Chinese Eastern Raw way providing a short route to Vladivostok. She sold her interests in the railroad under pressure to Japanese puppet Manchuria in 1935. A NY NATION cneva's Pacific Fleet, Moscow's fourth Japanese war bulletin said CODE MESSAGE SENT. Along a 170-mile front north of the Russian Manchurian Korean At 5:16 p. m.

(EWT), the British Broadcasting Corn in London heard This reminder was brought this Morse code message from trontier, Marshal Kirill A. Meret- skov's First Far Eastern Army bat- i Mome forcefully with disclosure icicu uui nine lo ZZ-milc and captured the big rail junction that a major U. S. Warship was torpedoed at Okinawa Sunday i night and that the mighty U. S.

Tokyo to Geneva: "Service message from Tokyo to Supervisor, Geneva: Re your service message our, important message not yet on hand. We suppose this message will be coming this morning." Ross said that if the Japanese answer was surrender, the an-' Can Learn Secret Third Fleet, ending a two-day lull, had turned its carrier planes loose against the Tokyo area. It was the first time the fleet jnouncement would be made simul- or Hunchun, 79 miles west of Vladivostok, Moscow said. In far Northwestern Manchuria. Siberian horsemen and tank-tipped armored spearheads, breaking across the great Khingan Mountain range, emerged on its eastern slopes and plunged toward the cen-; tral Manchurian city of Harbin.

REPORT NEW DRIVE. Russia's reported new drive in Western Manchuria threatened to split enemy troops in Asia into two huge pockets. I had gone into action since Japan Of Atomic Bomb, British Scientist Declares. made her conditional surrenaer offer Friday, and was viewed here as a possible effort to "prod" taneously in Washington, Moscow, London and Chunking. Washington will get Tokyo's answer first "through regular diplomatic channels" (through Switzerland) and the other Allied Governments will be advised of the ansv er before the simultaneous announcement is made.

Tokyo Into reaching a quick decision on the Allied surrender rT- I jApAN CHINA HARBOR The fleet had been Idle Saturday and Sunday but Nimitz and Adm. William, F. Halsey both had warned against possible Japanese treachery under cover of current peace negotiations, Nimitz announced the major warshipeither a battleship or large carrier was hit by an aerial torpedo Sunday but damage had not been determined. ATTACKS ARE CONTINUED. While the Admiral also announced I that fleet search planes sank or damaged 15 small enemy vessels in minor attacks from August 9 through Sunday, Gen.

Douglas MacArthur announced that Saturday raiders of his Far East Air Forces, more than 400 strong, set huge fires at Kurume, on Kyushu, and at the Kure Naval Base on Honshu. Gen, George C. Kenney, MacAr-thur's air chief, said the FEAF continued its attacks Sunday, but no details had been issued. While Tokyo continued silent on her proposal and the Allied counter proposal for Japan's surrender, MacArthur said the Saturday attacks by more than 400 bombers and fighters put the torch to Kurume, a city of 90,000, turned an oil refinery at Kure into a blazing beacon, and sank or damaged 51 nemy vessels in widespread waters. A destroyer, a submarine and 11 merchantmen were among ships hit Harnessing Of Power For terms submitted Saturday.

WORLD AWAITS WORD. While- ttie world waited tensely for word from Tokyo, President I Industrial Purposes May Be Possible, He Says. Washington, Aug. 12 (AP) Sir James Chadwick, chief British scientist in the atomic bomb project, said today there was a possi hrtjs tvlrephoto. Solid arrows locate Russian drives against the Japs in Manchuria as announced Sunday by Moscow.

Broken arrows indicate Russian drives reported by Tokyo, but not mentioned in the Moscow communique. Black areas are those reported by Moscow to be under Russian control in Manchuria. Command headquarters of the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria said Soviet troops, striking from outer Mongolia across Chinese inner Mongolia, were driving toward the Yellow Sea northwest of Peiplng, ancient capital of China. The Red Army drive threatened to isolate China from Manchuria by tearing a gap in the once-vaunted "Tokyo-to-Singapore Express" communication line supplying enemy Truman's Secretary, Charles G. Ross, cautioned newspaper and radio correspondents to "stay alerted until midnight." If the Japanese reply had been received by midnight, he said, Mr.

Truman would have announced its MUM ON TIME LIMIT. Ross did not deny that this government had placed a time limit on Tokyo's answer. Asked if a deadline had been fixed, he replied: "I prefer not to comment." Ross said that Mr. Truman would call reporters and announce Japan's decision as soon as it was received. "Will that apply in the case of a Japanese rejection?" he was asked Ross started to answer, then said he preferred not to comment.

He met with reporters a few hours after Archibald MacLeish held a hurried conference with Mr. Tru- troops on the Asiatic mainland. This drive, if successful, would cut contents immediately. Otherwise, there will be no announcement until a. m.

(Eastern War Time) tomorrow at the earliest. Meanwhile "the war Is still in progress," Ross said. He emphasized repeatedly that V-Day may Nation Goes Wild In Brief Fling Thousands Are Awakened Into Premature Celebration Of Official Jap Surrender By False Radio Broadcast. As into two pockets the. million, or more Japanese troops in China and' Manchuria.

4 Japanese broadcasts said a Russian Far Eastern Army which had' not come for "two or three days after Japan surrenders if she does." Mr. Truman will not proclaimi man. As the department's infor cations Commission were asked immediately by the UP to ascertain who could have cut in on the UP's wire system with the intent to disseminate false information," United Press informed its subscribers. New York, Aug. 12 (AP) Premature peace celebrations were set off in New York and other American cities tonight when a false United Press news "flash" that Japan had accepted the Allied surren- erronious flash that Japan had accepted surrender conditions.

Whistles blared forth in the huge railroad yards at near-by Alexandria, Va. They were silenced quickly upon withdrawal of the report A wild celebration broke out in Miami as the report spread. Gigantic signals were flashed into the sky by a million candle-power searchlight and dotens, of Although the erroneous flash was V-Day as soon as the Japanese reply if it be surrender is received, Ross said. The "end of the war" will come when the Japanese government actually signs the surrender terms and not before, he BE GAP." "And there might be a gap of mation chief, MacLeish has had a hand in composing most' of the American notes and messages in the Japanese surrender negotiations. Anticipating something "big," crowds started gathering in front of the WTiite House shortly before noon.

A London dispatch said that der terms, was broadcast over ma-1 "killed" within a few minutes by bility that within 10 years atomic energy could be used for industrial purposes. The slightly-built prize winner, also declared that the atomic bomb was not st ietly a British-American secret, asserting that any nation could learn the secret in five years of expeiimen-tation, assuming it has access to the necessary raw materials. "I think this is a very serious point," he said. Sir James was chief scientific adviser to the British members of I the American British Canadian' policy committee that developed the bomb that wrecked Hiroshima! and Nagasaki in Japan. The work of this committee, he, told a press conference, was con-j fined to developing atomic energy1 for purely military purposes apd very little attention was given to the industrial possibilities.

However, he said it would be "nearer 10 years than 50" before the secret of harnessing this new power for industrial purposes can be found although there are many new problems to be solved. Sir James declined to say whether the three plants now producing the atomic Domb in the United States could be used for development of industrial atomic ior radio united fress, ana Dy rauio 'tions which had interrupted their The United Press Associations regular programs to broadcast it, (United Press) said that the flash celebrating began in New York, across! two or three days between surren waved lesser searchlights driven from. Outer Mongolia into Chinese Mongolia was hammering across barren, mountainous terrain toward the Manchurian road and airbase' center of Linsl in Southwestern The Russians were striking toward Linsi over' an old caravan route front jhe inner Mongolian town of Wuchumintsin, 150 miles to the north, Tokyo said; BREAK. INTO PORT. Linsi lies :240 miles northwest of the Yellow Sea and is 260 miles northeast of Pieping.

One hundred and ninety-seven mijes from the Chinese frontier, Linsi also is only 70 miles north -of the northernmost rail line linking Central Chinsi with the Manchurian City of Mukden. While the Russian drive toward the sea extended the battlefront around Manchuria to 2,300 miles, Tokyo also asserted Marshal Kirill A. Meretskoy's First Far Eastern Armv had broken into the Korean Jn raids from the Inland Sea to the East Indies. TOGO SEES EMPEROR, Bombers and. fighters "in strength" hit factories, warehouses, barracks, railroad yards and bridges on Kyushu 'near the naval base of Kure across the Inland Sea, and smoke from the resulting fires rose 10,000 feet over the target.

the semiofficial Japanese news agency, said Foreign Minister Shigenorl Togo was received by Emperor Hirohito, who would be merely a mouthpiece for he commander of occupation forces under the Allied terms for Japan's surrender. Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet and the British Pacific Fleet patrolled off Japan's east coast, ready to strike again should the snemy refuse capitulation, or perhaps to go forward on an assignmentirrcase der if they do surrender and tne formal signing." Prefacing virtually all his remarks with the word 'if," he said the city: Approximately 2,000 mostly service men, downtown and formed transmitted over one of its wires Miami and other cities, at 9:34 p. m. XEWT), was mys-j Whistles shrilled, crowds collected sterious'1 origin," and although it and people danced in the streets in carried a Washington dateline "was so cities. not transmitted by the Washington InJ Washington an expectant Bureau of the United Press." crowd, gathered in front of the persons, gathered jubilant White House, began cheering and The Federal Bureau of and the Federal Qommuni- frou.ting when they heard the snake dances, stopped automobtlesithe Tokyo reply sun migni come and busses and rocked them from I through" tonight.

His press con-side to side until they threatened ference statement, made at 5:48 to upset. Police reserves werejp. m. (EWT) was the first official rushed to the area. White House announcement of the Whistles roared and hundreds ofiday.

persons rushed from their homes. Mr. Truman had gone to his ihc fic well before 8:30 a. m. today.

Prime Minister Clement Attlee returned suddenly to No. 10 Downing Street from his country home late Sunday and that crowds started gathering in the belief that announcement of Japan's next move might come at any hour. Another London dispatch reported that an Exchange Telegraph agency report from Chungking quoted Tokyo radio as saying that the Japanese cabinet met tonight. This was not confirmed from any other source. More than 30 hours had elapsed since Byrnes dispatched Allied surrender terms to Tokyo in behalf of the United States, Britain, China and Russia.

Henry W. Taft Dies At 86; jammed the strata with horns blarine. Scores of reporters port of caused anjWhite House press The erroneous "flash Hsnexsy. oi Nipponese 4 REPORT IS UNOFFICIAL intrusion on the sport of GI's at i uki is 4 nwwi pating tnat ne miRin ii announcement at that hour. Hour after hour passed and still Atihar frnm thp jawyer Lasrfng Son Of Member Of Grant Cabinet Battlecreek, Mich.

Military police, immediately upon hearing of the broadcast, i nr I If Tokyo accepts, peace will said, turn to a world that has known me Kussian cy and 26 miles Russian naval anchorage at'Fjaet- Kwantung army headquarter acknowl edged Soviet press-; ing from Yuki and werK near, the outskirts of the Koreait port of Rashin. Rashin is one of the main Continued On Page Column 4. I Finally, nt 5:48 -Meanwhile, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in its regular weekly report told its members that this new discovery would not immediately revolutionize industry, and that the "early" replacements of present sources of energy coal, oil, gas, waterpower is out of the question.

The organization said it had gone into this aspect of the question with other physicists. jno peace since Japan itself sparked Heiuy Waters Taft, prominent New York attorney, and brother of the late President William Phelps Taft, iong Publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star, and the lata Peter Taft, father of Hulbert Taft, present Publisher of the shipping points for the World War II with the "Mukden incident" of 1931. WAR GOES ON. If it rejects, it knows what lies in store for already battered snd bleeding destruction hy atomic bombing and the combined Times-Star. The only child of Police Squad Arrests Nine During Strand Hotel Raid; bound war production of Manchuria.

Alphonso Taft now still living is Mrs. Frances Taft Edwards of ai at. iwUKes nospuai, iiew mm City, it was learned in Cincinnati yesterday. He was 86 years old. The uncle of Sen.

Robert A. Taft Los Angelesthe youngest. Henry W- Taft attended public G-ive you mrK i i schools inV Cincinnati and was graduated from Yale College in 18S0 after rowing for two seasons against Haivard. He studied law at Woman Operator Is Included The Strand Hotel, 608 Walnut St, engaging in prostitution, the men t- nf ion- Vwith aiding and abetting, which has been a topic of disci r.JLtered and of Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati was the last surviving son Ji dga Alphonso Taft, who, in Preside Grant's administration, served first as Secretary of War and later as Attorney General.

Japanese broadcasts ranged. from appeals to the homeland to rerii'atn calm and united while waiting for "the great command from the throne," to truculent talk of "fight to the bitter end." General Kenney; commander of the Okinawa-based Far. East Air Forces, asserted his planes would continue to attack Japan "until ordered to do otherwise." There was no official American report that Superforts of the U. S. Strategic Air Force had resumed pounding of Japan, halted Saturday during surrender negotiations.

Tokyo radio's unconfirmed report said 70 Superforts with a Thunderbolt fighter escort bombed and strafed Matauyama Sunday. THE WEATHER Washington, Aug. fl2-(AP) Ohio: Mostly cloudy with occasional showers Monday. Little' change in temperature. Kentucky Rather warm with occasional showers in east portion Monday.

Indiana Partly cloudy and continued rather warm and humid i Monday. Widely scattered brief showers along the Ohio river. Cincinnati Weather Bureau Air might of the greatest land, sea and air forces on earth. The terms to Tokyo are unconditional surrender with the proviso that Japan can keep Emperor Hirohito but that the Mikado must take orders from the Supreme Allied Commander. While Japan weighed its fate, the war went on.

Manila dispBtches said the Far Continued Ob Page Column 4. rin sion by city officials since last Joseph Morneau, 26, Bertin Wednesday, when a former man- was found in a second floor Henry W. Taft was born in Cin ner -roil sentenced to 10 vears in room with a man registered as cinnati May 27, 1859. His mother Flier Pitts On Chute During Two-Mile Fall ir.H.roi n.nitpntiflrv for violation Estill Wilson, 25, Lexington, Ky, was Louisa Maria Torrey Taft, tr Uirll u. Wilson was held for further investi second wife jf Alphonso Taft.

of the" Mann Act, was the scene of H. W. Taft was two years vounger Eastern air forces continued operations and that ground forces on Luzon were told to keep pressing another Vice Squad raid early yes After Plane Explodes Miami Beach Aug. 12 (AP) gation and the soldier for Army authorities. The couple registered as Mrs.

Pauline Johnson, 28, 1745 S. Merld terday. tha.i the late President and Chief Justice, and two years older than thi late Horace Dutton Taft. Continued On Page 3, Column 1. SSgt.

Roland W. Parsons of founder of Taft School, Connec grabbed a parachute just "before his B-17 blew ian and Herman Bailey, 29. 418 Parkway both of Indianapolis. Both were charged with ticut. His half-brothers bv his IN THE ENQUIRER A soldier, two women, the wives of servicemen, an Indianapolis couple, two Mexican laborers and a Lexington, man were arrested in addition to Mrs.

Grace Moran, 55, proprietor of the hotel. apart but he (ell two miles before father's first marriage to Fanny Phelps were the late Charles was able1 to buckle it on and false registration at a hotel. They were said to have registered as Pag MarUh pull the rlpcord. At the Army Air Forces redis man snd wife. Niswonger snd Patjt Amusmtntl 1 1 Am.

To Quti. 6 Clan. Adt 11.20 Comici 21 Steuer said tney were round in a Detectives Floyd Niswonger and tribution station here, Parsons told Paul Steuer made the raid after 10 4 I) 4 Military Paqlar Radio Rationing. Rtadart' Viawi '8 watching two women, who later registered as Mrs. Bernice Ander second floor room.

The raid came as the City Solicitor's office was considering taking action against the hotel as a Last Wednesday, George Martin, son, 20, 2830 Vine and Mrs. how he found In the air, parachute clutched tightly In one hand, after a raid over Brunswick, Germany, on January 30, 1914. During a fair of some 12,000 feet the radio operator managed to strap and buckle the 'chute to his Crow-Word DaHynitioni Editorial, Eliot Fashion Nnwi 20 4 4 I) Maurine Spears, 21, 403 Beech YOUR SERVICE STATION MAN would like to say, "Sure okay when you hand him an coupon and ask for "Six Ethyl, please." But Ethyl still has a Job to finish in the Pacific. The tank helow the Ethyl pump in your service station gen-V erally has a pretty skimpy go be glad when the at tendant says he can let you have half and half. It's the only way he can give every motorist an equal break.

And that's fair enough, isn't It? The Cincinnati Enquirer Scciaty Nawi Sports Wanna 12 16-17 I) DAY'S WAR HEROES KILLED IN WRECK. KERN, Lt. ..) George 49 Vermont Wyoming. MISSING IN ACTION. GIBSON, Fireman 1c Ganola, USNR, 81, 516 Rusnell Covington.

WOUNDED IN ACTION. TUNGATE, Seaman lo John 133 W. 30th St, ColntlofV Elmwood Place, join the Mex 47, former manager of the hotel. icans, Joe Oroczo, 22, and Napoleon port Office record for Aug. 12, 1915: Temp.

Hum. Prec. a. 69 8 .30 p. 75 85 .46 Abbe Observatory: 1945.

'44. '43. Nl. Hijhest temperature 81 99 95 Lowest temperature. fi7 68 73 64 Precipitation 10 0 .11 .11 Today Sunrise 5:49 a.m.

Sunset Ji3 jj, Moon sell 10:45 p. ro. Talk of Town IS TViompion 4 harness, despite wounds from Ger Espino. 23, both from the railroad was sentenced to 10 -years by U. S.

Judge John H. Druffel after a jury man cannon fire. It opened perfect 11 II1 4 II 20 Haworth Hori Santa Jamai Joumy't End Kaap camp car section in Carthage. All were found nude in a third-floor ly and he landed safely, but he was convicted him of causing the transportation of two known prostitutes taken prisoner and spent 15 months room, Niswonger snd. Steuer said.

Vital Siatiititl Woman' 'aga II Yeuf MtH i I. in a German- prisoa eamp The women were eharged wMtfrem Kentucky te Cincinnati, 2 IKilgtHs.