TAMED TIGER

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 55, 3 September 1945, Page 5

TAMED TIGER

YAMASHITA GIVES IN

Rec. 11 a.m. MANILA, September 2. General Yamashita and four other generals emerged from the mountains and surrendered to the Americans, who are flying them to Baguio, in northern Luzon, for the signing of formalities tomorrow. General Yamashita, now the tamed, docile tiger of Malaya, is scheduled to surrender formally to General Wainwright at 9.30 a.m. at Baguio tomorrow. Yamashita's smiling, pleasant, courteous manner when he surrendered to the Americans was a marked change from his former blustering boastfulness. He wore a clean, worn uniform and a Samurai sword and appeared to be in good condition, though he had lost weight. He repeatedly expressed gratitude for courtesies and good treatment at the hands of the Americans, who were drawn from the 32nd Division, which chased the Japanese from Buna to northern Luzon. Thirty-two thousand Japanese soldiers, 5000 sailors, and 4000 civilians have surrendered at Halmahera and Morotai, in the Moluccas. Japanese troops in the Bonin Islands, in the northern Pacific, numbering 20,000, agreed to surrender today. SYDNEY, September 2. The British light carrier Glory left Sydney this morning for Rabaul, where the surrender of 84,000 Japanese will be accepted on board by Lieuten-ant-General Sturdee. The enemy garrisons concerned in the surrender will be those on New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. The Japanese commanding officer is General Imanura.