OFF YOKOHAMA

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 52, 30 August 1945, Page 7

OFF YOKOHAMA

ALLIED WARSHIPS

GIANT NAVAL PARADE

(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.)

NEW YORK, August 29.

Admiral Halsey, on board the Missouri, on which the surrender will be signed, entered Tokio Bay this morning.

The Missouri and the battleships Duke of York, lowa, and South Dakota dropped anchor off Yokohama at 3 a.m., 8.5. T., today, says Reuters correspondent. Marines and sailors will start to land tomorrow. The Missouri was closely followed by three destroyers, the Nicholas, O'Banon, and Taylor, all of which hold Presidential citations. Then came the lowa and South Dakota and the destroyers Buchanan, Lansdowne, and Lardner, and next in the giant parade came the Duke of York, escorted by the British destroyers Whelp and Wager. A correspondent of the Associated Press says that the Missouri has radioed to all ships a message stating that she requires 12 hams, 12 quarts of green olives, and 101b of sugar confectionery for the surrender ceremonies. Apparently the peace terms will be served with hors d'oeuvres. Off Yokohama crews of the United States 3rd Fleet can see a sign in Japanese painted on a factory roof reading: "Three cheers for. the United States navy and army." Three thousand Japanese marines carrying baseball bats are guarding Atsugi airfield against possible attacks by Japanese hotheads. _ Admiral Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the United States fleets in the Pacific, arrived in Tokio Bay by plane. General Mac Arthur has arrived at Stating' that the Yokosuka naval base will become the first Allied shore base in Japan with the occupation by marines on Thursday morning, Admiral Nimitz claimed that the Japanese defeat was clearly a sea-power victory, inasmuch as the homeland is an island empire with its army almost intact, and an air force, but no navy. Admiral Nimitz paid a tribute to "my friend Sir Bruce Fraser, who, with his ships of the British Fleet, had a hand in this." . ,_,_•! A Domei news agency broadcast said that the Japanese at Yokosuka are remaining indoors. Traffic is prohibited, as a precaution against danger when the Allies begin the occupation on August 30. N.Z. NAVAL MEN TO TAKE PART.

Five hundred marines and seamen drawn from the battleship Kmg| George V, the New Zealand cruiser Gambia, and the Australian destroyers Nizam and Napier, will participate m the first sea landings in Japan, says Reuters correspondent aboard the Duke of York in Tokio Bay. They will be under the command of Captain. H. J. Buchanan, R.A.N. Three hospital ships moved to Sagami Bay, south of Tokio Bay during last night to evacuate Allied prisoners of war, who are estimated to total 36,000. . Japanese headquarters has urgently requested Mac Arthur to rescind the- order for the sending of a surrendered Japanese submarine into Tokio Bay because unfortunate incidents might be precipitated. Mr. Michio Ozaki, chairman of the Japanese Christian Association, in an article published in the "Yomiuri Hochi," warned the Japanese *we should not form hasty conclusions of the Americans as a whole by such trifles as occasional violence during the occupation period." Three Japanese submarines surrendered off Honshu, including a double-decker carrying a crew of 190 and a seaplane. PARTICIPATING GENERALS.

Lieutenant-General Percival, former British G.O.C. in Malaya, has accepted an invitation from General MacArthur to witness the Japanese surrender, said the Chungking correspondent of the Associated Press of America. General Percival also plans to participate in the surrender of General Yamashita, to whom he surrendered Singapore. After attending the Japanese surrender in Tokio Bay, Major-General Walnwright will return to the Philippines to supervise the capitulation of General Yamashita. General Wainwright said he hoped General Homma, to whom he. capitulated on < Corregidor, would be present in-Tokio Bay. Major-General Wain wright told .a Press conference that his surrender in the Philippines was forced by. a situation beyond his control. His troops carried out the defence in more overwhelming and dismal circumstances than American troops had ever previously encountered. He added that he did not want to make further statements until he had furnished his official report. ' «,„♦ A message from Paris says that General Leclerc, who will represent France at the signing of the Japanese surrender, is en route to Tokio. He was recently appointed assistant to Admiral d'Argenlieu, the French High Commissioner to Indo-China. Twenty-four hundred Japanese surrendered on the by-passed island of Mili, and 8000 on Morotai. Super-Fortresses dropped 140 tons ol supplies today on prisoner of war camps in Japan and Korea. Tokio radio said that a woman internee was killed and two Japanese civilians were injured by a falling drum containing supplies for camps at Fukashima city.