MIX-UP IN CHINA

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 200, 24 August 1945, Page 5

MIX-UP IN CHINA

JAP CAPITULATION

Second Complaint Lodged

With Mac Arthur

N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 1 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 23

Japanese Imperial headquarters wirelessed General Mac Arthur complaining of the difficulties attendant on the surrender in China, "due to activities of irregular forces and bandits and disturbances of mobs." It was added that "despite our utmost efforts to avoid calamities the situation in China has not been improved. Will you accord consideration as to the time and processes concerning the disarming of the Japanese Army in China?"

The Associated Press Manila correspondent recalled that the Japanese also complained on August 20 that the Chungking and Yenan authorities were "rushing unwarrantedly, without discipline, into the Japanese area, separately demanding that the Japanese disarm." General Mac Arthur has referred that complaint to China. Chinese Communists The Communist newspaper, New China Daily News, declared that the Communist forces in North and Central China had "gathered strength for an all-out offensive" and were marching on key cities. The newspaper added that Tsingtao had been surrounded. Street fighting was going on in Tientsin. Wuhu had been entered and other Communists were approaching Wan Ping and Nan Yuan.

The surrender situation was further complicated to-day with the announcement that General Chang Chi-chung and General Hsiung Shihhui, bothv high in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's councils, had been appointed to accept the Japanese surrender in Manchuria. No explanation was given about how this would be effected while the Japanese armies in Manchuria were surrendering piecemeal to the Russians. A Japanese battle order delivered to the Chinese by Japanese envoys at the preliminary negotiations at Chia-kiang disclosed that more than a million enemy troops will surrender to General Ying-ching, commander of the Chinese field forces. It is estimated that about 2,000,000 Japanese troops are on the Asiatic mainland.