Late News MARCH ON TOKIO

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 289, 5 September 1945, Page 8

Late News MARCH ON TOKIO

American Entry On Friday (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received .September 5, 1.40 a.m.) NEW YORK. September 4. A Japanese communique stales that, an initial American force of 3350 troops will enter the metropolitan area of Tokio on Friday, and that 11,050 troops are now moving into the Kanagawa mid Shizuoka prefectures. Approximately 20.000 American troops are scheduled to land today at the Tnehikawa army air base, north-west, of tlie capital, according to Tokio radio. As a precautionary measure the police will establish questioning posts to prevent any untoward incident. When a reconnaissance team of 2500 dismounted cavalrymen landed at Tateyama. says lhe radio, the Japanese officers complimented the Americans on their smartly-executed amphibious landing. which was witnessed by 1000 armed Japanese. General MacArthur has ordered Tokio radio to suspend all foreign-language broadcasts. The Japauese-language broadcasts will continue. „ The radio reported that the eightyeighth Imperial Diet formally opened today in the presence of tlie Emperor. The opening session concluded swiftly. No mention was made of what transpired. ■General MacArthur overruled an order issued by the Japanese Foreign Office that Allied corespondents attending the opening session would be searched at the door and could not smoke or drink inside the building. Atom Bomb Results. An official source at Yokohama said that atom bombing of Hiroshima wiped out tlie headquarters of the Japanese Second Army and killed some generals. Tbo official count of the casualties a fortnight after the bombing was 33,000 dead. 30,000 missing. 13,950 seriously wounded and 43,500 other wounded. By September 1 the death toll reached 53,000 because many of those' who were originally listed as slightly injured died from no apparent cause. ' ‘‘Secondary radiation” turned the green hills behind Hiroshima brown several days after the atomic bomb attack, according to Japanese newspaper men. Green ricefields five miles distant were also completely browned. New Delhi radio said that Admiral Mountbatten had ordered the Japanese commander at Singapore to send details on the ports and airfields in Java to facilitate British landings.