JAPAN PREPARES

Evening Star, Issue 25522, 28 June 1945, Page 5

JAPAN PREPARES

MEASURES AGAINST INVASION -COMMUNICATIONS MUST BE KEPT WORKING fißec. 11.58 a.m.) RUGBY, June 27. The Japanese Government has issued emergency plans to keep on communications iii case Japan is invaded. The statement says that all postal, telegraph, telephone, and radio installations must be firmly held and kept working whatever happens. A Japanese military commentator says Allied landing operations against the homeland will be prepared on a scale comparable with that of the Normandy landings. He named Okinawa as a possible invasion base. According to the Japanese News Agency, the Allied forces have landed on the island of Kuma. 50 miles due west of Okinawa. Heavy fighting is said to be going on. The Japanese also keep on talking of Allied operations at BaLikpapan. The commander of the British air forces in the Pacific, Air-Marshal Lloyd, who is now in Ottawa, had talks with Canadian' air chiefs about the size and nature of the Canadian air force which is to serve under him. Reports from Ottawa say the force will be between 15 and 20 squadrons of bombers and transports. It is also suggested that 164. Lancaster bombers flown back to Canada from Britain, with their crews, may be used, too. Lieutenant-general Joseph Stilwell, who has succeeded General Buckner as commander of the American Tenth Army, is now on Okinawa.