Japanese Defeat

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 55, 3 September 1945, Page 6

Japanese Defeat

EMPEROR TO REPORT TO HIS ANCESTORS

LONDON, September 2. The landing of occupation troops went on all day today around Tokio Bay. For the Japanese, this day of surrender has been a day of mourning. A correspondent says that few people were about the streets. The two Japanese delegates who signed the surrender went straight from the ceremony to the Emperor to give him their report. Tomorrow, according to Tokio radio, the Emperor -will report to the Imperial ancestors the termination of the Greater East Aaia War.

Individual commanders in the Japanese navy, army, and air force were sent today, soon after the surrender in Tokio Bay, their first orders from the Allies. These orders, relayed to them from Imperial headquarters, told commanders in the operation zones how and to whom they must capitulate and how their troops were to lay down arms. Only, the Japanese police force is exempt for the time being, in order to preserve law and order in Japan. Not a single Japanese plane must fly; not a single ship may sail until further notice. All military installations, factories, stores of equipment, laboratories, and war inventions are to be made available at once to the Allies. The Prime Minister, Prince HigashiKuni, in a broadcast message to the .people, said they must face the facts of defeat and loyally carry on despite itheir boundless' sorrow that the Em-. peror's forces were about to be dis- , armed and disbanded. '. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Eec. 2 p.m. TOKIO, Sept. 2. As the Japanese delegation left the Missouri, 20U0 planes roared' over the Tokio ai'ea to impress the people, whom the Emperor was then telling that the surrender had been signed at his command, reports a correspondent of the Associated Press of America. General Mac Arthur's first order was for the Japanese to radio to all field commanders to surrender immediately. Thus Japan returned to the size at which Commodore Perry found her when he sailed into Tokio Bay in 1853. Thirty minutes after the surrender, a convoy of 42 ships entered the bay and began disgorging troops of the Bth Army at Yokohama. By nightfall 13,000 men had landed, bringing the •total of the occupation forces to more than 35,000 in an area of 700 square miles south of Tokio. Before the formal surrender international law pro,vided that the only troops entering the country were as a guard for the Supreme Allied Commander, but the flood gates are now open. Only Japanese police responsible for maintaining law and order now may bear arms. All aircraft are grounded and all merchantmen anchored. During the surrender ceremony Commander Perry's flag rippled overhead ~in memory of 1853, also the flag which flew over Washington on the day of Pearl Harbour. Before the Japanese arrived the Missouri's band struck up "The Star-spangled Banner," and then "God Save the King." Typhoons have interrupted the flow of airborne supplies and troops from Okinawa to the Tokio area. Tokio radio warned that the severest typhoon of the year is swiftly nearing Japan and might hit Honshu on September 4. The storm was last reported to be 700 miles from Formosa.