SOVIET LANDING ON SAKHALIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23289, 27 August 1945, Page 5

SOVIET LANDING ON SAKHALIN

i GyOtllblTcl WUCcspiCCl ’ln J’a / ’ ? H t m Fa' be Uni,':, lire” rereAied 'l4;. oTl:' - ; ' 'l:' .. ’, N AFIAFTTIffi , i'ire '" trere .L.ti.nwo. irehlding ‘ n"? i ? ti '’rM. Y 'jcamp cGnu.iiDil67o officers and men, I sian commmiiq lie. “Russian airborne ; troops have occupied Seoul, capital of KCrca. Troops oi the Second Far! Eastern Front have captured the town ! Fourteen thousand Japanese surren- i •' : t pn.bab! / 100 miles m : .b-\vest of I Mukden. Aim-rican medic;;! and I signal corps men who were oarachuted | into Hie comp earlier nimrmd tha’ al Russim: misS'm lu-d oia-ed the Mfiicr-Gen.eral Parker. The Japaii'so m Souih Sakhalin, though they ( opituia’-'d. ai-iiupted to j delay Hie Soviet advance am; evacuate I everytning of value to Japan, says Reuter's Moscow correspondent. They burned villages, blew up bridges, mined | roads and sabotaged power stations I and other essential services. The speed of the Soviet advance pre- | vented the widespread removal of | goods. Many Japanese troops disguis- i ed as civilians are still at large. It is reported from Moscow that the ' Russians took prisoner more than i 200,000 Japanese, including several | dozen generals, between August 9 and i 23 Japanese Conecrnetl The Japan-have smV a message I to General MacAr:ir.’r siMmc : "Ac-j cording to a Moscow broadcast. Russia < is reported to be about to send air- j borne troops to Hokkaido. If this is [ true it would be regretted bv the I Japanese Government, v. meh is doing its best to fulfil all your requirements by placing the army, navy and civilians under strict control. It is earnestly hoped that the Allied armed forces I will eider Japan acording to the plan ! notified by Allied Supreme Headquarters.” Th-’’ Tokio radio claims that, the Russians last Wednesday a Japanese military peace mission which

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