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CITY GARAGE Service'IS THE SOLUTION TO TOOKMotor Transport ProblemsPHONE GRAFTON 11.■ ■ 1 1. » Brice: TwopenceGranny Smilh Apples, 2/6, 3/6 and 4/ dozen.Cavendish Bananas .... W lb. Tomatoes, 1/ ib. Fryers 6d lb. Beetroot 4d bunch. Deans 1/6 lb. Due in To-day. Fresh Supply Shelled Roasted Peanuts, 2/ lb.KEYNES, Block 5,HIROSHIMA A CITY OF RUINThrough Jap Glasses.—1been magnified. It was captured by the Australians at Balikpapan. and here Jack Keanhe. of Stanthorpe, stadiea the hills surrounding Balikpapan. Australian Official Phato,Tokio Tells Of Damage By Atomic BombAtomic Bomb Explosion“TremendousAwe Inspiring”GUAM, Wed.—The first eye-witnesses’ account of the atomic bomb attack on the Japanese port of Hiroshima on Monday,U.S. And Britain Will Control Production ' v-iOf New BombLONDON. Wed —Immediately Parliament reassembles after the State opening of the new session by the King on August 15. the Prime Minister. Mr. Attlee, will make an Interim state-,With Which Is Incorporated The Clarence and Richmond Examiner established im»6 Pages ~GRAFTON,_THURSDAY^AUGUST 9U945.A soldier of the Australian Ninth Infantry Division shares his canned rations with a family of civilians. The Australians fonnd the people of Borneo had gone hungry under Japanese occupation, many were ill and more without shelter. (U.S. Office of War Information picture).SPECULATION ON EARLY SURRENDER OF JAPANESEWASHINGTON, Wed.—Speculation on the possibility of Japan’s early surrender in the face of the world’s newest and greatest aerial terror is increasing hourly.minds within six weeks, whether to get out or see their home islands devastated from the air.It was pointed out in Washington that the new bomb multiplies the Super-Fortresses' striK-disclosure that a special session of the Japanese Cabinet has been summoned and a warning *® the Japanese homeland to “brace itself for new atomicLONDON, Wed.—It was stated that Tokio, in a broadcast picked up in New York, says the atomic bomb “seared to death all living things, human and animal, in Hiroshima.”The dead and injured were burned beyond recognition, and the authorities are unable to get any definite check on civilian casualties.The city is In disastrous ruin *nd the effect Is widespread.Those out of doors were burned to death, and those Indoors were killed by Indescribable pressure and heat.Houses and buildings were smashed, including emergencymedical facilities.HEART WIPED OUT.NEW YORK, Wed. — Photographs showed clearly that Hiroshima’s heart was wiped out as if by a giant bulldozer. Only a few concrete structures, believed to be air raid shelters, remained standing. but they have been burned inside, says the American Associated Press representative at Guam.An expert says there is no comparison between a normal conflagration and the fire caused bybomb against Japan, the War Department insists that it cannot reduce the Army strength below 7,000,000—the total set for the end of June, 1946, says the Washington correspondent of the New York ‘‘Times.’’Army officials are disinclined to discuss the new bomb, but it is evident from the tone of the guarded comments that the bomb is not regarded by those responsible for winning the war as a weapon which itself will end war.Every Japanese within the four square mile area of Hiroshima destroyed in pie atomic bomb raid la now dead. Any Japanese entering the area also will die. If the theory advanced by an American scientist. Dr.60 PER CENT. WIPED OCT.GUAM, Wed.—Sixty per cent, of Hiroshima was wiped out by the atomic bomb dropped on Monday monring by a single Super-Fortress.This is announced by the Chief of the United States air forces in the Pacific, General Spaatz.General Spaatz says that In the Hiroshima raid the atomic bomb wiped out four and one-tenth square miles, or 60 per cent, of the city. Five major industrial targets were destroyed and additional damage is shown outside the completely destroyed area.Reporting that smoke and cloud from the attack was visible 180 miles at sea, the New York “Times correspondent says that General Spaatz and Major-General
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