U.S. Troops In Tokio Bay

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 54, 1 September 1945, Page 7

U.S. Troops In Tokio Bay

PRISONERS FREED

LONDON, August 31. 'Around Tokio Bay American troops have been pouring ashore to extend their grip, and today they moved up to the southern outskirts of Tokio itself. More airborne troops, despite bad weather, have flown in. In the meantime, the city is out of bounds. General Mac Arthur, it was stated in ■Washington today, will announce the time when the surrender will be signed, and the ceremony will be broadcast from the Missouri. Then, by a hook-up from the White House, President Truman will make a nine-minute speech. Listeners will then be switched back to the Missouri, and it is expected that General Mac Arthur and Admiral Nimitz will speak.

Hundreds of Allied prisoners have been liberated today and taken to hospitals or hospital ships. They have told of beatings and tortures by thumb-screws, and of disease, starvation, and filth. British naval aircraft at Hong Kongare keeping -constant patrol following an attempt by three Japanese suicide craft to escape out of the harbour. The naval dockyard has been taken over. The Japanese at Singapore are making airfields ready and preparing Government House for Allied use. The new British light carrier Glory ■will sail from Sydney tomorrow for Rabaul. She is taking the commander of the Australian Ist Army, General Sturdee, to arrange the surrender of 86,000 Japanese troops.