VIOLATING SURRENDER TERMS
AGTS OF AGGRESSION REPORTED (Rec. 10 a.m.) LONDON, August 17. Huge explosions in the Moulmein area indicate that the Japanese are carrying out demolitions in violation of the surrender terms, says Reuter's Rangoon correspondent. Reports of unprovoked acts of aggression are still coming in to headquarters. A Spitfire flying low over Moulmein was fired on. Lord Louis Mountbatten, in an order of the day to the sea forces, warned his menj particularly the British, not to imagine that because the war was over they could all go home immediately. Occupation and other problems were even greater than in Germany because of the greater distances involved. Several hundred thousand Japanese over thousands of miles must be disarmed and disposed of. Tens of thousands of Allied war prisoners and internees must be repatriated as soon as possible. Hundreds of thousands of square miles desolated by the Japanese must be taken over to prevent famine and disease. All these things must be taken over under military administration. It was impossible to estimate how long it would be before civil Governments could take over.
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Evening Star, Issue 25565, 18 August 1945, Page 7
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