U.S. LANDINGS AT OTHER POINTS

Southland Times, Issue 25763, 29 August 1945, Page 5

U.S. LANDINGS AT OTHER POINTS

MacArthur’s Plans For Occupation (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 28. General MacArthur announced today that additional landings are to be made on September 1 at Yokohama and Tateyamahojo, a strategic spot outside Tokyo Bay and 10 miles east of Uraga Strait. Lieutenant-General Robert L. Eichelberger’s Sth Army, which will be among the first occupation forces, is to go to the Tokyo and Yokohama areas. The Associated Press says that Lieu-tenant-General Eichelberger has had close contact with the Japanese for 2a years, first in Siberia with the American Expeditionary forces from 1918 to 1920, later in China and the Philippines and in this war at Buna in the Philippines. He is an exacting commander ■with a genial personality. Tokyo radio announces that the Allied landings in southern Kyushu have been postponed from September 1 to September 3, but at Sugi the airborne landings tomorrow are unchanged. PLANS FOR CONTROL When the occupation of Japan begins no non-fraternization order will be issued as occurred in Germany, says the Manila correspondent of The New York Sun. General MacArthur is not expected to impose a lengthy military control over civilian affairs ahd newspapers and. the radio, although ternporarily closed, will apparently be soon re-established under Japanese management with Allied supervision. General MacArthur’s desire to develop amicable relations between the Japanese and the occupation forces is indicated by his decision not to distribute a War Department pamphlet to the troops, although 100,000 were shipped from the United States. It is believed that General MacArthur feels that it might give the soldiers a wrong impression about the Japanese. One well-informed source says that General MacArthur will try to handle the Japanese justly and avoid imposing controls likely to stir up oriental animThey Associated Press correspondent on Okinawa says that General MacArthur is expected to demand that designated Japanese war criminals be handed over. “Confusion on the home front appears to be more complicated than in the front lines,” said the. Japanese War Minister, Whimomoura, in a broadcast today. “Some Japanese desire to fight on even alone or to commit suicide, but the Imperial decision is far-sighted and mandatory.” Tokyo radio announces that the extraordinary session of the Diet, the purpose of which is to clarify frankly the reasons for the capitulation, has been postponed to September 4 because of the surrender delay. EAST INDIES FLEET Movement Towards Sabang And Penang (Rec. 10 p.m.) COLOMBO, August 28. It is officially announced that two forces from the British East Indies Fleet are en route to make preliminary contact with the Japanese. The first, led by the cruiser London, will arrive at Sabang, off northern Sumatra, today. The other, which is speeding for Penang, includes the battleship Nelson, the cruiser Ceylon, one aircraft carrier and three destroyers. This is the first mention of the Nelson’s presence in the East Indies Fleet. Penang and Sabang guard the northern and western entrance to the Malacca Straits, where minesweeping will begin as soon as Japan’s naval authorities have handed over charts of their minefields, which for three and a-half years have blocked the way into Singapore.