SURRENDER ENVOYS
Arrival At Rangoon To-morrow (10 p.m.) RANGOON. Aug. 24. Field-Marshal Count Terauchi informed Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten by radio that the Japanese envoys would arrive at Rangoon next Sunday to sign the surrender documents. Major units of the British East Indies Fleet are awaiting orders to steam down Malacca Strait to occupy the. great naval base of Singapore, besides various points on the Malay Peninsula and other Japanese-held territory, reports Reuter’s Colombo correspondent. Before the British Fleet can safely negotiate Malacca Strait, minesweepers will clear the 700-mile-iong channel leading to Singapore.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23288, 25 August 1945, Page 5
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