NO ESCAPE FOR TERAUCHI
Rec. noon. SINGAPORE, Sept. 10,
The Japanese commander at Singapore, Lieutenant-General Seishiro Itagaki, one of Japan's leading militarists, will surrender Japan's southern armies to Admiral Mountbatten on Wednes.day. The Allies accepted General Itagaki after confirming that FieldMarshal Count Terauchi was suffering from residual paralysis and is unable to attend the surrender cerempny. Admiral Mountbatten made it clear that Count Terauchi cannat escape the
The correspondent of the Associated Press says that the polyglot population will be permitted and even encouraged to, see the first part of the surrender ceremony, which will be held in a hoilow square formation on the waterfront at Padang. The surrender document, a single sheet, will then be signed in the adjacent municipal building before a selected audience. A communique from SEAC headquarters announced that troops who were landed on the west coast of Malaya in the area of Port Swettenham and Port Dickson have not yet made contact with the Japanese, but that operations are going according to plan. The landings were made by the 34th Indian Corps, an Indian tank brigade, and the sth British Parachute Brigade.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 62, 11 September 1945, Page 7
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