SIGNING ON SUNDAY
JAPANESE SURRENDER SOUTHERN ASIA ARMIES FIGHTING ON BALIKPAPAN (11 a.m.) RANGOON, Aug. 24. Field Marshal Count Terauchi, commander of the Japanese southern armies, informed Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten by radio that Japanese envoys would arrive at Rangoon next Sunday to sign the surrender documents. / In a message to Delhi, broadcast by the Saigon radio, Field Marshal Terauchi announced that a Japanese surrender envoy, Lieutenant-General Numata, chief of staff of the Japanese forces in the southern region, would land at Mingaladon airfield at Rangoon between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., G.M.T., on Sunday. Admiral Mountbatten named his Chief of Staff of South-east Asia Command, General Browning, as likely to take General Numata’s surrender. The Tokio radio says that the ceasefire order has now reached all islands. The Dutch News Agency. Aneta. reports that fighting is still going on in the Balikpapan area despite the Japanese announcements that Nipponese troops in Dutch Borneo have accented the Imperial Rescript ending hostilities. The Japanese fired on Allied planes dropping leaflets calling upon the Japanese to surrender in the Sambodja area, where a small number of Dutch troops are assisting Australian patrols.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21801, 25 August 1945, Page 5
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