KYUSHU ISLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 56, 4 September 1945, Page 8

KYUSHU ISLAND

OCCUPATION BEGUN

PARACHUTISTS DROPPED

By Telegraph—Press Association—CoDvriqht.) Rec. 1.20 p.m. TOKIO, Sept. 3. The Japanese reported that the Americans have begun the occupation of Kyushu, the southern island of the Japanese mainland, and are dropping airborne troops at Kanoya airfield, once a nest for suicide planes. They also reported the occupation of Chiba City, in Tokio Bay.

The Americans have occupied four more airfields near Tokio, and also a road junction midway between Atsugi .airfield and Tokio, which commands three entrances to the capital.

General Mac Arthur has ordered the troops to refrain from disarming the Japanese, who are yielding their arms to their own police.

Naval occupation forces were instructed today to use a firm hand with the Japanese but to avoid needless oppression. The instructions indicate an official desire to abolish the holiday tourist attitude displayed by some of the occupation forces. Many Americans ashore are obviously bent on sight-seeing, shopping for souvenirs, and welcoming opportunities to converse with English-speaking Japanese. The new instructions direct that the Japanese will not be allowed to forget that they are defeated and that they are paying the penalty for aggression and treachery. Property rights will be respected, and looting and acts contrary to the standards of human decency will not be tolerated.