THE END IN BURMA
CONFERENCE WITH ENEMY
LONDON, August 24. Fighting has finished throughout Burma, says . Reuters correspondent with the British Forces. A senior British officer met Japanese officer representatives in the Sittang River area this afternoon. A conference lasted for two hours, after which a statement was issued reporting that the officers had agreed to means for stopping useless bloodshed between the opposing forces during the period from the cease-fire order to the actual signing of the instrument of surrender in South-east Asia. Field-Marshal Count Terauchi, in a message to Delhi, which was broadcast by Saigon radio, announced that the Japanese surrender envoy, Lieut.General Numata. Chief of Staff of the Japanese forces in the southern region will land at Mingaladon airfield, Rangoon, between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. (G.M.T.) on Sunday. This is 72 hours later than Admiral Mountbatten named. The Chief of Staff of the South-east Asia Command, LieutenantGeneral Browning, is likely to take the surrender of Lieut.-General Nurnata.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 48, 25 August 1945, Page 7
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