Manawatu Evening Standard. SATURDAY, AUG. 25, 1945. JAPAN'S SURRENDER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 228, 25 August 1945, Page 4

Manawatu Evening Standard. SATURDAY, AUG. 25, 1945. JAPAN'S SURRENDER.

From the air tomorrow Allied' forces will land on Japanese soil.! They will be the advance guard of the occupation forces and a [ stern warning has been given to ' the enemy against molestation! as they drop from the sky. on Atsuki aerodrome. The main landing will take place on Tuesday when General Mac Arthur will be with his men; on the same day naval and Marine forces will enter the naval base at Yokosukn. Preparations for this great event with its outstanding effects . upon Japanese political and economic life were made at Manila,! and General MacArthur has given orders to the Government at Tokio that all his directives must be implemented at once. There can be no light attitude in this matter. The Japanese have proved themselves a traitorous and treacherous people. Their battle tactics in the jungle were all too frequently allied with treachery, and the Allied Command must leave nothing to chance in preserving its forces from snipers or other fanatical Japanese. Their aircraft have been ordered to remain on the "•round until the Allied dispositions are secure, merchantmen in port must be maintained undamaged and remain at anchor; vessels at sea must discharge explosives into the ocean and report for direction to port; submarines must remain on the surface flying a black pennant awaiting direction to Allied bases, and the best treatment must be accorded prisoners of war. There is also the most important task of removing dangerous obstacles to safety on sea, land, and in the air and ensuring that all enemy coastal defences are rendered impotent. While the occupation proceeds a mighty fleet will be cruising off Tokio P>ay, an impressive warning of the Allies' firmness and determination that in the tremendous events taking place there is to be a wholesome lesson for all Japan. On Thursday a great naval and air demonstration —the greatest in history the description runs —was staged by the British and American Fleets with more than a thousand planes airborne at one time. The formal Japanese surrender will not be signed until August 31, the majestic American battleship Missouri having been chosen as the venue and Tokio Bay the rendezvous. To what extent the Japanese will be impressed by these historic events remains to be seen. Their Press has been .usefully advising the nation to make the Allied occupation smooth, emphasising that by the people's conduct will the conquerors' treatment be regulated. Peace within the nation is a vital necessity of occupation, and only when realisation is accepted that the old order, which made Japan strike so treacherously against the United States and Britain, as well as China, has been definitely ended, and that she is now required to formulate a new way of life —as the Germans have been compelled to do —will progress be definite,. Her military clique, avaricious of power and dominion over other lands, has brought Japan to her present state; it is the,people's task to 1 write finis to this militaristic' chapter and pave the way for building the new order .through the democratic way of life.