SOUTH-EAST ASIA
RADIO TO JAPANESE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN MOUNTHATTIvN'S OKDERS (Reed. 0.30 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 21 The Allied Commander-in-Chief in South-east Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, has transmitted over tlie New Delhi radio instructions to Field-Marshal Count Terauchi, commander of the Japanese Southern Army. He stated that Terauchi must send a representative with plenipotentiary powers to Moulmein aerodrome, Burma, on Thursday, to meet Admiral Mounthatten's Chief-of-Staff to arrange an orderly surrender of all Japanese land, sea and air forces. under Terauchi's command. Admiral Mountbatten said Terauchi must supply information covering the strength of the land, sea and air forces under his command, charts of all sea minefields, details of swept channels and charts of all anti-tank and anti-per-sonnel minefields on land.
He must supply a list of airfields in his area, particulars as to number and location of war prisoners and internees in his territory, particulars of all ports, with berthing capacity, location of all shipping and naval vessels, and particulars of all stocks, including rubber. Last-minute orders from headquarters have stopped the "mercy" flights to prisoners of war in Southern Burma. The orders were issued because of the danger of the Japanese firing at the aircraft, says Renter's correspondent. The ban will be lifted immediately the Japanese make it clear that they are willing to surrender. Artillery is being used in Burma to tell the Japanese about the Emperor's orders. Instead of firing shells the guns are firing tightlv-packed wads of leaflets. A Burmese canoe filled with leaflets and containing dummy figures stuffed with leaflets was pushed down the Pegu-Sittang Canal toward the Japanese lines. There was no sign of surrender and planes which flew over Moulmein were again fired on. PRAISE FROM EDEN QUALITY OF SPEECH OPPOSITION'S AGREEMENT LONDON, Aug 20 Mr Anthony ICden, speaking in the House of Commons, congratulated Mr Bevin on the forthrightness of his speech. He added that during the four and a-liall years they had served together in the War Cabinet, he did not remember a single diflerenco between himself and Mr Bevin on an important issue of foreign policy. "He helped me in that critical period, said Mr Eden, "and 1, in the same spirit, would like to try to help him now," It, was not the duty of the Opposition to emphasise the divergencies, he added, but to stale them frankly in order to try to reach agreement, so that Parliament, in these difficult years, might function largely as a Council of State. The greater the agreement at home the greater would be .Mi' Mevin's authority abroad.
Mr Helen xnkl he agreed entirely with Mr Hevin regariling Greece. The charge that Greece had aggressive" intentions agsjiust her northern neighbours would not bear a moment's examination, especially as the (Jreek Army had been destroyed in 1911 and never reconstructed.
"If there is one country about whose radio propaganda and ' criticism of Greece I feel badly, it is Bulgaria." said M»> Eden. "Bulgaria's treatment of our prisoners has been bad and. generally, she is not a country to which we have any cause to be tender. "1 think Poland's western frontier has been moved too far to the west," he continued, "just as after the last war her eastern frontier was moved too far to the oast. Wo will have to make every contribution possible to alleviate Europe's economic position, not merely because we want to be generous, but because it is in our own interests that Europe's economy should not collapse. However, we know how straitened are our circumstances and how small our contributions can be with the best will in the world." Mr Eden added that Mr Bovin's remarks had received the approbation of the House as a whole. They represented a foreign policy acceptable to all parlies. "f repeat my good wisljes to him. and every section of the House will endorse those wishes," said Mr Eden. "Victory this time has come with its stark, unparalleled warning. I said at San Francisco that it was the world's last chance. We pray the world will seize that Inst chance, and any efforts Mr Bevin makes wisely to guide and encourage it we shall support to the utmost of our strength." (Cheers.),
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25287, 22 August 1945, Page 7
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