--- title: Azad Hind, English edition, page 2 (Syonan/Singapore, August 8, 1945) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/azad-hind-english-page-2-1945-08-08/ description: Page 2 of the English edition of Azad Hind for Wednesday 8 August 1945 (Syowa 20). section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Azad Hind, English edition, page 2 (Syonan/Singapore, 1945-08-08)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/azad-hind-english-page-2-1945-08-08.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/azad-hind-english-page-2-1945-08-08.jpg) # Azad Hind, English edition, page 2 (Syonan/Singapore, August 8, 1945) Page 2 of the English edition of Azad Hind for Wednesday 8 August 1945 (Syowa 20). A two-sentence Japanese Imperial General Headquarters communique on Hiroshima, headed 'Enemy Raids Hiroshima / Dai Honyei Communique', sits in the lower centre of the page; the rest of the page carries a statement by a Japanese Board of Information spokesman on Indonesian independence, a report of Anglo-American monetary rivalry, Chungking-Yenan fighting and cinema advertisements. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Page 2 AZAD HIND Wednesday, August 8, 2605, Syowa 20 Iguchi Hails Move For Indonesian Freedom Tokyo, August 8 (Domei)—Commenting on the establishment of a preparatory committee for East Indies independence which was made known today, Sadao Iguchi, Spokesman of the Board of Information declared this latest step to facilitate the independence of the East Indies and enable it to become a member of the family of free, independent nations of the world "follows one of the basic principles of our established policy—liberation of East Asia from imperialist western powers." [...] Anglo-U.S. Rivalry Seen In Bretton Woods Plan For International Monetary Control New Measures For U.S. Economic Domination Enemy Raids Hiroshima Dai Honyei Communique Tokyo, August 8 (Domei)—Dai Honyei revealed in a communique released at 3.30 p.m. yesterday afternoon as follows: "Firstly, considerable damage was caused in Hiroshima City as a result of an attack made by a small number of enemy B-29's yesterday August 6. "Secondly, enemy appears to have employed new-type bombs in this attack. However details are now under investigation." Potsdam Communique Set To Create More Confusion [remaining items and advertisements not transcribed] ``` Read from the 1280 px page image; the Hiroshima communique is transcribed in full as printed, the surrounding items by headline and first sentence only. [← The Evening Star, daily edition, front page (Washington, D.C., August 7, 1945)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/evening-star-washington-1945-08-07/) [Private Snafu: No Buddy Atoll, frame of a dazed Japanese naval officer caricature →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/private-snafu-no-buddy-atoll-officer-caricature-1945/) ## Using the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.