EXPLICIT ORDERS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 227, 24 August 1945, Page 5

EXPLICIT ORDERS

INSTRUCTIONS FOR JAPANESE. FACILITATING OCCUPATION. (N.Z. Press Association.—Copyright.) MANILA, Aug. 23. Explicit instructions covering Japanese operations to facilitate the Allied landing in Japan are given in 'General MacArthur’s latest orders. The following instructions must he carried out by (3 p.m. on Monday:— The Yokosuka base must be prepared for occupation and possible operation by United States naval forces. All combatant units must be removed from the area of the initial occupation and confined to assigned limits except all civil police and gendarmerie, who will maintain order and prevent outbreaks of sniper fire and other overt acts, and also prohibit any substantial gathering of the populace. The civil police and gendarmerie will carry only small arms. The personnel at Osliima may remain but will be disarmed. Accommodation, billets, and camp area facilities for the Supreme Commander must be provided. The following orders must he executed by 6 a.m. on Tuesday:— The Imperial General Staff must be made available for a conference with a representative of the Supreme Commander at the Atsuki aerodrome immediately he arrives, and later as may be directed.

MEETING AT SEA

To ensure safe entry into lokio Bay a Japanese ship not later than 8 a.m. on Sunday must meet the United States naval forces 20 miles out at sea on a bearing of 135 degrees from Osliima and must lead those forces into Sagami Bay. It must provide 12 pilots to conduct certain forces into Tokio Bay as directed by the senior United States naval commander.

The Allied forces will be taking the following general measures by 6 a.m. on Saturday:— . first. — United States aircraft will conduct day and niglit surveillance flights over Japan and Japanese-con-trolled areas. Secondly.— The air forces will he dropping supplies to United Nations war prisoners and internees. . Thirdly.—Naval forces occupying Japanese coastal waters and Japanesecontrolled areas may begin nnnesweeping unmolested in any ot eight specified ports, including Osaka, _Tsmgtao, Shanghai, Canton, Hong Kong and Singapore. An official announcement says that Admiral Nimitz will sign the surrender instrument for the United States, Admiral Eraser for Britain, Genera Blarney for Australia, Lieut.-General Derevyanko for Hussia, Geneial Hsu Yung-chang for China, and General Jacques le Clerc for I<ranee. Ihe Canadian and New Zealand signatories remain to be designated. The Associated Press correspondent aboard the battleship Duke ol York says the Britisli and American fleets today staged history’s greatest aerial and naval demonstration a few hours steaming time from Tokio. Over 1000 planes were airborne at one tune ana many of them flew at masthead height. The demonstration was staged to keep the pilots in active practice and to relieve the monotony of awaiting the signal to enter Tokio Bay.