ORDERS IN BURMA

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 225, 22 August 1945, Page 5

ORDERS IN BURMA

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENEMY. ADMIRAL MOIJNTBATTEN FIRM. (Rec. 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 21. Admiral Mountbatten, over the New Delhi radio, transmitted instructions to Field-Marshal Count Terauchi, commander of the Japanese southern army, stating that Terauchi must send a representative with plenipotentiary powers to Moulmein aerodrome on Thursday to meet Admiral Mountbatten's Chief of Staff to arrange for the orderly surrender of all Japanese land, sea and air forces under Terauchi's command. Admiral Mountbatten instructed Terauchi that'he must supply information covering the strength of the land sea and air forces under his command, charts of all sea minefields and details of swept channels, besides charts of all anti-tank and anti-per-sonnel minefields on land. He must also supplv a list of airfields in his area particulars of the number and location of war prisoners and internees in his territory, particulars of all ports with berthing capacity, the locations of all shipping and naval vessels, and particularly of all stocks, including rubber. ' Last-minute orders from headquarters stopped '"mercy" nights to prisoners of war in Southern Burma, The order was issued because of the danger of Japanese firing at the aircraft, savs Reuter's correspondent. The ban will be lifted immediately the Japanese make it clear that they are willing to surrender. AIRCRAFT STRIKE. Thunderbolts fired on Japanese forces near Shwegyin and broke up an enemy encirclement of an Allied guerrilla force, said the Rangoon correspondent of the Associated Press This was the first action against the Japanese after Admiral Mountbatten's "Cease Fire" order. "We cannot afford to treat the Japanese delicately whether the war is on or off," an Army spokesman told Reuter's Rangoon correspondent. He was referring to the Thunderbolt action. Remnants of the 28th Imperial Army threatened to cut off a party of Burma guerrillas and the local commander called for an air strike. Ihe pilots flew low shooting curtaim of fire into the Japanese concentrations. The weather was bad and visibility was poor so the results of the attack were not observed. Allied troops attempted to capture a party of eight Japanese v'ho were slipping across the Kan-goon-Mandalay railway. .Seven fell on hand grenades and killed themselves and the eighth had a leg blown off. In Manila the Associated Press correspondent says small groupsl of Japanese in the Philippines are still fighting Two Generals, who made surrender overtures on Luzon two days ago, have not yet capitulated Australian forces on Bougainville have been warned not to fire on a Japanese plane flying long streamers, which may land in the Australian area B h™rSy : This «**™?s v * special meeting on the Mi o liner front yesterday between a special Japanese 7 envoy and an Australian rePJ The n 4 at is' e still no sign of Japanese capitulation on either the oeventh or Ninth Australian Division. fronts in Borneo, and isolated offence actions bv the Japanese are still being le-

Japanese, the last of; the former enemy gamon ° n Al J t "lians Island surrendered to the Australians yesterday.