SURRENDER IN NANKING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 226, 23 August 1945, Page 5

SURRENDER IN NANKING

CHINESE PROPOSALS

(Rec. 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 22. Japan’s formal surrender to China will he signed at Nanking. Chinese troops might bo flown into Nanking, Shanghai, Peiping and Tientsin even before the formal surrender, says the Associated Press correspondent in a message from Chungking. The signing is not expected to occur until after General MacArthur’s formal signing. Meanwhile Japanese envoys are conferring at Chihkiang with General Ho Ting-chin, commander of the Chinese field forces, who handed the envoys a memorandum specifying the areas the Chinese would occupy. General Fah Wei-chang has been appointed to take over Hong Kong, Canton, the Liuchow Peninsula and Hainan Island. The Chinese have also listed the Inner Mongolian provinces uf Jeliol, Chahar and Suiyuan, also Formosa and French Indo-China north of the ICth degree which, the Associated Press points out, indirectly confirmed reports that the British would land in Southern Indo-China.

Chinese quarters indicate that Henry Pu-yi, the puppet President, will probably be treated leniently if captured. Most Chinese always considered Pu-yi a hapless, hopeless puppet without the courage to resist the Japanese.