SURRENDER IN NEW BRITAIN
LONDON, September 6. Lieut-General Sturdee, commander of the Ist Australian Army, took the formal Japanese surrender in New Britain today aboard the British air-craft-carrier Gloria, lying off Rabaul. There are 86,000 Japanese troops in the area. General Blarney, commander of the Allied land forces in the South-west Pacific, is returning to Morotai from Tokio to accept the surrender of the Japanese forces in the Celebes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 59, 7 September 1945, Page 7
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