JAPANESE EVILS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 61, 10 September 1945, Page 6

JAPANESE EVILS

ALLIED RESPONSE

RIGOROUS TREATMENT MUST

BE EXPECTED .■ (By Telegraph—Press Association-—Copyright.) Rec. 1 p.m. SYDNEY, September 10. The Australian Commander-in-Chicf. General Blarney, is the first Allied leader to tell the Japanese that they must expect most rigorous treatment.

After the surrender by LieutenantGeneral Tishima, of all the Japanese forces in the eastern half of the Dutch East Indies was signed at Morotai yesterday, General Blarney said: "Never before in history has so numerous a nation as Japan been so completely defeated. To escape complete destruction, the Emperor has yielded to the Allied forces, and the instru- v ment of total surrender has been signed in his name. He has charged you to obey the orders which I shall give you. In carrying out these orders, the Japanese army and navy organisations will be retained for convenience.

"In receiving your surrender. I do not recognise. you as an honourable and gallant foe, but you will be treated with due but severe, courtesy in all matters. I recall the treacherous attack upon China in 1937. I "recall the treacherous attack upon the British Empire and upon the United States in December, 1941, at a time when your authorities were making a pretence of ensuring peace between us. I recall the atrocities inflicted upon our nationals as prisoners of war and internees, designed to reduce them by punishment and starvation to slavery. In the light of these evils, I will en"force my orders most rigorously, so let there be no delay or hesitation in their fulfilment."