Show I 1 Jap Troops droops Hyde Hide 1 In Okinawa Mountains By ROBERT BOBERT GEIGER i OKINAWA V July 20 WP About f-About About Japanese troops troop arc are hiding J in n northern Okinawa's rugged mount mountain the he army estimated 1 Friday a month after alter the Island i was captured I The Nipponese are are being hunted I down and killed at an average of I 50 dally daily it was announced at head hend- quarters s of Lt Lt Gen John R R. Hodge commander of the army corps corp The announcement followed by bys s d' few hours Jours the ours the first fIut Japanese aerial attack on the isla island d in nearly nearly near near- early ear ear- ly a month Three enemy planes w were re downed by marine a ne night fighters R Radio dio Tokyo Toky claimed without 1 t fJ 7 7 J 55 confirmation that that Nipponese rah raf ers era us cornered and nd attacked a 8 group group of enemy of-enemy enemy war warships in Oki- Oki waters Thursday and sank sanka a cru cruiser ler and a a. large largo transport Frequent Dt Ail Ait Attacks Attack While the day 82 battle raged for Okinawa vital as an air and nv naval base to prosecution of the e ewar war against Japan Nipponese aerial attacks on shipping Vere were frequent The enemy sank 32 United States vessels and damaged damaged damaged dam dam- aged some 60 In the entire Ryu- Ryu campaign including United States fleet attacks on the Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese mainland Hodges Hodge headquarters e said new information indicates there were Japanese garrison troops on Okinawa when the Americans Americana landed April 1 and that tic tho Nip Nip- Nipponese ponese drafted for military service This total of defenders was nearly dou dou- double double double ble the United States estimates More fore than Japanese e troops and conscripts were killed in battle and about slain or captured since the Island bland was secured June 22 87 97 I PerCent r Cent Die Ilo Col Cecil W W. San Antonio Texas said that during the vicious fighting for Okinawa more than 97 per cent of the Japanese troops preferred to die fighting or by suicide rather than surrender but that since June 16 when they ey began surrendering in the cl closing days of battle 26 per cent of ot tho those e cornered have given up S Of ot an estimated Oki- Oki civilians ns on the Island are in Internment A careful search of ot the tho Island fland has failed to disclose the fate of ot Americans ns taken prisoner by the Japanese Army patrols still are searching out Japanese troops hiding in caves and other retreats retreat If a call alI fails fans to bring out any enemy tro troops pJ the thc caves are sealed with th thI I dynamite I |