INTO TOKIO

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 213, 8 September 1945, Page 5

INTO TOKIO

AT DAWN TO-DAY MACARTHURS TROOPS BIG PARADE OF MEN WHO FOUGHT IN PACIFIC Recd. 11 p.m. Washington, Sept. 2. At dawn to-morrow (Saturday) seasoned troops of General MacArthur's Command will march into Tokio. There will be a parade three miles long into the heart of the Japanese capital. Two American regiments will march in battle order and a guard of honour will be provided for General MacArthur on his arrival at a station and from there to the American Embassy, three miles away. American reconnaissance patrols have entered Tokio to arrange for General MacArthur’s formal entry. General MacArthur and his’ G.H.Q. will enter with the Ist Cavalry Division at 6 a.m. and will raise over his headquarters at the American Embassy the flag which flew in Washington on the day Pearl Harbour was attacked, and later at Casablanca, Rome and Berlin and the surrender ceremony aboard the Missouri. Cavalrymen will enter the capital from various positions around their perimeter, not as one large unit. General MacArthur stated that 7,000,000 Japanese troops, comprising 3,000,000 in the home islands and 4,000,000 in outlying Pacific area, would be disarmed by mid-October. Between 300,000 and 400,000 American troops would occupy the home islands.