ALLIED ARMADA

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 49, 27 August 1945, Page 5

ALLIED ARMADA

Ready-To Enter Tokio Bay

FORCE OF 380 SHIPS

LONDON, August 26 The Allied fleet is about to sail into Tokio Bay.

Of the once mighty Japanese navy, only one ship, a destroyer, is at sea, by permission of General Mac Arthur. At 8 a.m. tomorrow by Japanese time, the destroyer's lookout will be brought to the alert. He will have to sight the Allied fleet under Admiral Halsey, which is to sail into Tokio Bay ready for the landing on the Japanese mainland. The fleet should appear before noon, 20 miles out from Tokio Bay. The.lookout will have no difficulty in. recognising it, for this armada of 380 British and American warships and troop transports is one of the biggest ever seen in the Pacific. ■ A "typhoon forced a post- Hobart and the destroyers Warra- . -I? r , An- i. v j munga and Bataan. ponement of the Allied landings and The Minister of Defence, Mr. Beasthe surrender arrangements by forty- 1-^ eight hours. Ihis is the season ot three air squadrons which Australia destructive storms in the area of would also provide as occupation forces t m L * i 1,- i, £„.,m. could not be moved to Japan in time Japan. Ihe typhoon which finally for {he f orma i surrender. They Avould forced General Mac Arthur to delay subsequently join the Allied forces of the occupation was the third in two occupation to be stationed there.

days. It is noAV reported from Manila that the fleet will go into Japanese home •waters only 24 hours behind the original schedule, and not 48 hours as was expected Avhen the postponement was announced. There is no Avord yet whether the landings will begin before Tuesday. Next Aveek, Avhile the surrender is being signed, there will be further landings on the most southerly of Japan's home islands, Kyushu. The advance party will go in on Monday and the main force on the next day. American troops are to take part in the occupation of Korea. The commander of the 10th Army on OkinaAva,. General Stilwell, will send in the) United States 24th Corps under General Hodges after the main surrender in Tokio Bay. _~_,. General Mac Arthur has told the Japanese remnants in the Philippines to surrender to the commanding general in Manila. The capitulation of the Riukius is to be made to General Stilwell.