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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 29 August 1945, Page 6

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ARMY COMMANDER PROMOTED LONDON, Aug. 28.—Lieut.-General Slim, Commander of the 14th Army, has been promoted general. JAPS URGED TO REPENT NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—Tokio radio says the Japanese Prime Minister, Prince Higashi Kuni. at a press conference, attributed Japan's defeat to the rapid deterioration of the nation* fighting strength, the reason. for whicl session of the Diet. He urged the ’nation to thoroughly repent. “Asahi Shimbun” says: “Japanese militarism must be abolished. It is because we relied solely on force that we must now taste miserable defeat, o e musl abandon the idea that might is right. Deriding “vulgar nationalism,’< the paper said that if the Japanese seek revenge against the Allies they wil. wind up like Germany in a state oi total disruption. The Domei News Agency, announcing the resignation o Lieut.-Gencral Teiichi Suzuki f rorr the presidency of the Japan Patriots Industrial Association, said this organ isation smacked of government pup classes. BRITISH TOKEN FORCE •GUAM. Aue “8, -The! Associated Press correspondent says it i 6 believed ADMIRAL NIMITZ v,j arrive'.:, h i .'n to-morrew. h\ 1 YOUNG MAN FOUND SHOT ! CAMBRIDGE. Tins Day.—About I p.m. yesterday the body of Owen Fin! employed at the Karapiro hydr mentj There wa- a 22 rifle alongMd, the body and a bullet wound m tn forehead. His parents reside at Tap ranga.