JAPAN ACCEPTS TERMS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 39, 15 August 1945, Page 11 (Supplement)

JAPAN ACCEPTS TERMS

END OF ASIA-PACIFIC WAR

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

EMPEROR'S RESCRIPT

tondon^^ ■. - • ,■:■'..'." .' ■' : / -■'■■.•;;;;.'■.; : ■ ■■■■/;^ The Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, announced at midnight in London (II a.m. N.Z. time) that Japan has today surrendered. The last of our enemies is laid low. Here is the text of the Japanese reply to the ;:;; >Anied:^emands:—-:,;.■ V. : , ■ . ■ _ .-. . ■ ;;. .: ' N■; ■" v ; " X-'::: "With reference to the announcement of August 10 regarding the acceptance of the provisions of Ihe Pbtsdam declaration and the reply of the Governments of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China sent by Secretary of State Byrnes on the date of August 11. the Japanese Government has communicated to the Governments of the four Powers as follows:— (1) "His Majesty *he Emperor has issued an Imperial rescript regarding Japan's acceptance of the provisions of the Potsdam (2) His M authorise and ensure the signature by his Government and the Imperial General Headquarters of the necessary direction for the Potsdam Declaration. (3) His Majesty is also prepared to issue his commands to the military, naval, and air authorities in Japan and to the forces under their control wherever located to cease active operations, ,to surrender arms and to issue such orders as may be required by the Supreme Commander of the Allied For^^ Togo,*"

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