MAIZE SUBSIDY

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23279, 15 August 1945, Page 4

MAIZE SUBSIDY

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REPORTS FROM SWITZERLAND

AND NEW YORK

Official Confirmation Still Awaited Conflicting Versions Received By Telegraph—N.Z. Press Assn.— Cony right (Received 1 a.m.) LONDON, August 14. THE Japanese Government has accepted the Allies’ surrender formula embodied in the Note dispatched to Tokio by the United States. This message from Reuter s New York correspondent is attributed to the U.S. Office of War Information, which quotes a Japanese News Agency. The Swiss radio announced that Japan had accepted the Allied Note. In the Note dispatched to Tokio by the United States the Four Powers agreed to accept the surrender of Japan provided that the Allied Supreme Commander ruled Japan through the Emperor’s authority. This was their reply to the Japanese Government’s message accepting the terms of the Potsdam Proclamation as long as no demand was made to prejudice the prerogatives of the Emperor as sovereign ruler. The Associated American Press, according to a New York message, says that the Federal Communications Commission reported that Japan had accepted the Allied surrender terms and quoted the Domei News Agency as saying: “An Imperial message accepting the Potsdam Proclamation will be forthcoming soon.” The message did not mention the Allied stipulation regarding Emperor Hirohito. Official comment in London says that the Domei News Agency statement begs the question, since the Potsdam Declaration did not mention the position of the Emperor. Reporting that the Japanese answer has been received in Switzerland, the Paris radio said: “The Japanese answer is a rather voluminous message. It is thought in Berne that the document will be handed to the American and Chinese Ministers early this afternoon. The first extras of the New York morning newspapers were on the streets at 3.45 proclaiming: “Japanese radio reports surrender.” The usual Times Square crowds were not demonstrative, presumably awaiting White House confirmation. The Federal Communications Commission picked up a Domei broadcast announcing: “There will probably be something important at 9 p.m. Tokio time.” The Federal Communications Commission added that another Domei transmitter gave the time as 11 p.m. Both transmissions were in Japanese to the occupied area.

It is reported that the Tokio code station has been sending a long code message to Switzerland since 12.48 a.m. New York time.

President Truman told the Press that he had nothing to add to the Domei News Agency report.

The communications room of the United States Pacific Fleet at Guam flashed a Tokio report accepting the Potsdam declaration, but made no official announcement. Fleet headquarters censorship passed the following sentence in an Associated Press report from Guam on the Tokio surrender. “It was believed that the fleet would head for Japanese ports shortly.” The Associated Press comments that this might have been based on plans for fleet movement, if the enemy surrendered. The Tokio radio in a message beamed by Domei to Japanese-occupied territories says that Field-Marshal Prince Norimasa Nashimoto, president of the Japanese Imperial Reservists’ Association and chief priest of the grand shrines of Ise, called on the empire’s reservists “ultimately to destroy completely the enemy on both fronts, guard and maintain the prosperity of the imperial throne and consummate the purpose of this Holy War. I now command every member enduring hardships and privations to strive to increase his fighting strength.” The Federal Communications Commission said the message, though dated August 11 and distributed on August 13, does not mention the Japanese surrender offer.

The Tokio radio says the Japanese Cabinet met immediately on receipt of the Allied Note and continued in session until last night.