
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 10, 1994                   TAG: 9409070053
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Greg Edwards
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

ITS TROOPS BATTERED, JAPAN ARMS ITS PEOPLE AT HOME

Japan's military reverses had led the Japanese cabinet to a decision "to arm the entire people," the Domei News Agency reported. Meanwhile, strong U. S. forces stabbed deeper into trapped and battered Japanese forces in British New Guinea.

A train wreck on the Atlantic Coast Line at Valdosta, Ga., killed 45 black men, all members of a railroad work gang headed home to Ablabama. Thirty-eight others were injuired in the wreck, including four battle casualities from the Normandy campaign who were headed to an Army hospital.

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