THE END IN BURMA
SURRENDER TO BE TAKEN AT RANGOOH AND SINGAPORE STRINGENT TERMS ' (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 16. The. "cease fire" .order went out from Twelfth Army headquarters to 'front line formations, ending offensive hostilities in Burma, reports the Associated Press correspondent at Rangoon. Arrangements are being made to accept local surrenders of Japanese commanders for Burma and Thailand at Rangoon, and-for Malaya and the East Indies at Singapore. The Japanese will he asked to hand over installations in-' tact, and commanders who do not comply will be shot. The surrender ,- ceremony at Singapore will be no harsher than that imposed on the British by the Japanese in 1942. Their efforts to . degrade the white man in the eyes of are expected to be carried out in reverse. ' The most immediate problem will'bethe handling of an estimated 75,000 Allied prisoners on Singapore Island. Forward South-east Asia Command headquarters will be established at Singapore. Japanese forces in South-east Asia and ,the Indies are- estimated to total between 800,000 and. 900,000.
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Evening Star, Issue 25564, 17 August 1945, Page 11
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