FIRING CEASES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 267, 22 August 1945, Page 3

FIRING CEASES

SAKHALIN FRONT. RED ARMY OCCUPIES MANCHURIA ENTRY INTO PORT ARTHUR EXPECTED. (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright.) (Pec. 11.30 a.m.)' LONDON, Aug. 21. All Manchuria will shortly be completely occupied by the Red Army, say agency correspondents in Moscow. Soviet dispatches report more Japanese surrenders and the unopposed occupation of Manchurian cities and towns. Firing ceased on the Sakhalin front at noon yesterday, when Japanese envoys approached the Russians under a white flag. The Red Army, while the Japanese are carrying out the surrender terms, is advancing to take over the southern part of the island, and it also expects to re-enter Port Arthur soon. The Red Army lias appointed Lieut.-. General Derevyanko the representative of the Soviet to accompany General MacArthur to Japan. He is due in Manila in a few days. The Dome! News Agency, piloting the Information Ministry, said that the first, Allied airborne occupation group would land at. Atsuki airport on August 26 or after, and the seaborne group at Yokosuka. The Associated Press says that Atsuki Ngawa is a prefecture South-west of Tokio, about 10 miles north of Sagam Bay and about 20 miles from Tolcio. The Imperial announcement that the envoys had returned from Manila is the first thing the Japanese people heard of their mission. A Chungking message says that Japanese envoys headed by General Kyoshi have arrived at Chilikiang to arrange the Japanese surrender in, China. Tiie Associated Press correspondent says that Kyoshi is General , Okumlira’s deputy chief of staff. The Office of Strategic Services has announced that four members of Major Doolittle’s first mission over Tokio have been released from a prison emnp at Paiping.