TIMOR REVERTS TO PORTUGAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23283, 20 August 1945, Page 5

TIMOR REVERTS TO PORTUGAL

“Arranged” By Japan

MANILA, August 17. In compliance with a request by the Portuguese Government, Japan has arranged to return Portuguese Timor to Portugal, states a Domei News Agency report in a broadcast by the Tokio radio. Appropriate instructions have already been issued to the Japanese authorities on Timor. Japan occupied Portuguese Timor in self-defence, added the radio. The Lisbon radio says that Japanese forces on Timor have given themselves up to the Governor. The Prime Minister of Portugal (Dr. Antonio Salazar), in a speech at Lisbon declared that Portugal was preparing to fight Japan, but the Japanese surrender came too soon. He added that Portugal signed a treaty with the Allies to join in the war in the Far East to recover Portuguese Timor as soon as sufficient equipment was provided. He claimed that Portuguese troops assembled in Fast Africa would have gone into action immediately when the Allies opened hostilities on

Liner To Be Docked The liner Queen Elizabeth is to dork at. Southampton next Monday. She travelled 50,000 miles and carried more than 85,000 soldiers during the war. French General Honoured The Mscow radio says that General de Tassigny (Commander of the French Expeditionary Forces) has been awarded the Order of Suvorov, First Class.