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PAGE 2 THE SUN, BALTIMORE, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11. 1945 JAPS IN SOUTH KOREA FACES U.S. Program Would Limit Jap News Agency To Empire 4 4. 'At 'Va Br GERALD GRIFFIN (Continued from Page 1) or the Office of Strategic Services in developing Allied propaganda to be directed at the Japanese people. Both these agencies had operated in this field in Europe.

Compared With Italy There was no disposition here to minimize the complaints of Allied newspaper men against the apparently one-sided operation of censorship in Japan. One responsible officer compared it to the til-uation, likewise confused, which existed in Italy after the landing at Salerno. Rut the tendency was to wait and see the results of the censor-ship action described in press dispatches today from Tokyo. Some of the dispatches indicated that this action was along the lines of the program outlined by the War Department. The censorship plan for Japan ated news' stories, or editorial opinion calculated to interfere with an ordcry occupation, or even the broadcast of musical selections designed to boost the Japanese martial spirit or to disparage the Allies would come within the above provisions, it was explained.

Jap radio stations would make no foreign broadcasts in other than the Japanese language, and Domei, as noted, would operate only within the empire. The program was developed here by the War Department, in con-Junction with the Navy and State departments, and cabled to General MacArthur some time ago. He cabled back his acceptance of the press and radio provisions, it was stated. G-2 Staff Has'Chirge The general is handling censorship and propaganda through the G-2 (intelligence) section of his staff and, more specifically, has placed his counterintelligence oili-cers in charge of this job. Officials here guessed that the delay In starting the censorship plan, which led to Domci's numerous scoops and the protests of Allied correspondents, occurred because of the pressure of other work connected with the occupation.

General MacArlhur had not wanted the aid of either the OVVI sis As dr-I fWl ICStp a iiri.rmriii ii iff Am nihi KHhian ISw'y ii ill In Censorship Imposed On Japs rilYSIOGNOMY OF DEFEAT Part of the Jap Kota garrison lined up in Guam stockade after (Marine Corps photo.) Extent Of Power Given Japs i yx rr. Electric fans, made by Mitsubishi, one of Japan's great industrial combines, are there to cool the hot traveler. Jitterbug addicts among the American troop3 occupying Seoul had no difficulty finding proficient partners. At a Keisan the Korean equivalent of a geisha house house tonight several were out on the dance floor in stocking feet going through the intricacies of the latest steps with Korean girls as the phonograph blared American jazz. Keisan girls, who undergo long Iraining for their role as entertainers, seemed to be enjoying themselves, most of them smacking loudly on gum which the GI's had distributed freely.

Hokkaido Prison Camp Spotted By Yank Flyers Ominato. Japan, Sept. 10 OP) Rear Admiral H. M. Martin, commander of Carrier Task Force 44.

reported today to Vice Admiral Frank Jack commander of the United States 9th Fleet, that reconnaissance planes had spotted an American prisoner of war camp at Bibai in the west central section of Hokkaido, northernmost of the Japanese home islands. Martin said his flyers dropped walky-talky radio sets to the Americans. lillfoifb In Korea Jolts Washington TO QUIT SOON Mountbatten On Way To Singapore For Ceremony 300 Japs Suicides Singapore, Sept. 10 (A) The new Singapore edition of the Southeast Asia Command's of ficial daily newspaper for empire troops reported today, from "friendly Japanese" sources, that 300 Japanese officers com mitted suicide with hand ere rtades after a saki party to mourn Japan surrender. Lieut.

Gen. Itagaki, Singapore commander, was re ported to have suppressed the wave of suicide after three days. Singapore, Sept. 10. (JP) Ad miral Lord Louis Mountbatten was en route to this key base today to accept the surrender of Japan's southern armies in a ceremony de signed to humble the conquered enemy and restore Britian's "face throughout all Asia.

The Southeast Asia commander planned originally to receive the samurai sword of Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, supreme commander of the southern armies and to re-enact with role3 re versed the drama of Britain's Singapore surrender early in 1942 This program would have in eluded a parade of Japanese gen erals through the city, carrying white nags. It was ruled out today however, by the highest level of authority in favor of a "more dtg nified ceremony," scheduled to take place Wednesday. Terauchi Spared Singapore's polyglot population will be permitted even encour aged to see the first part of the ceremony, to be held in a hollow-pquare formation on the Padang waterfront. Immediately afterward, the sin gle-sheet surrender instrument will be signed in the council room of the adjacent municipal building, before a selected audience. Instead of Terauchi, conquerer of the Philippines and a former war minister, the Japanese repre sentative will be Lieut.

Gen. Sei- sbiro Itagaki, commander of Singa pore and one of Japan's leading militarists. Three other genera-Is flew here from Bangkok today to join the surrender party. Terauchi was spared reluc tantly and temporarily the em barrassment of surrender after Mountbatten's personal physician went to Saigon and made certain the bald. 66-year-old Field Mar shal's plea of illness had a basis of truth.

"Very Sick Old Man" He was reported to be a "very-sick old man," paralyzed following 'a stroke last April, but British authorities said he would be compelled to go through the formality of a surrender at some later date, and that his personal, chop (signature) would be used in Wednesday's ceremony. Mountbatten, it was disclosed today, was on the eve of launching an all-out land-and-sea drive to retake Singapore, the "Gibraltar of the East," when the Japanese surrendered. Preliminary operations in the Malacca Strait actually were under way. Such a campaign, intended as a spectacular re-establishment of western prestige in the Orient, has been the goal of the Southeast Asia Command ever since it was set up by directive of the Quebec Confer ence in October, 1943. Elements of the great force which Mountbatten had massed were re ported today to have landed on the Malayan west coast in the Port Dickson and Port Swettenham areas.

The only landings reported previously were at Singapore and Penang. "Banana Dollar" Worthless The chief worry of Singapore's population, meanwhile, was money The Japanese "banana dollar" so called because of the banana de sign of the bills was declared worthless, while a new Malayan dollar had not yet been distributed. Free rice, sugar and salt were doled out, somewhat relieving the food shortage, but alarmed Chinese and other elements of the popula tion complained they couldn live indefinitely on those foods and clamored for money to buy others. Even before the "banana dollar" was scrapped, the price of essential foods began to skyrocket. The cost of pork and sugar trebled and the price cf eggs increased more than sixfold.

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Gen. Yoshio Kuzuki. com-mander'of the Japanese army in the American -occupied zone, and Vice Admiral Glsaburo Yamaguchi, however, betrayed no emotion. As the witnesses to the signing filed out of the building American troops marched into the grounds and formed a square around the flagpole, and the Rising Sun was hauled down, with 5,000 Koreans shouting their approval, Then the 7th Division Band struck up "The Star-Spangled Banner" and the Stars and Stripes went up. Session With Abe Canceled General Hodge, in a press conference following the surrender a scheduled session with Abe having been canceled because of the latter's indisposition made it clear that although the Japanese Government machinery will be retained for the time being it will not be permitted to act independently, but will serve merely as a channel to carry out Hodges's directives.

He added that factional differences of the Koreans made it difficult to grant immediate independ-ence, but said that he would consult at once with. Korean leaders. How long the occupation will last, he said, must be determined by tHte United Nations after consultation among their leaders. Japanese functionaries, he said, probably will be replaced by Americans as soon as the latter have familiarized themselves with the jobs. Were the Japanese to be thrown out at once, he said, chaotic conditions might result, not only in the political structure but in the economic structure as well.

To Review Regulations Regulations affecting Koreans will be reviewed as soon as possible and any designed merely to humiliate them will be rescinded, the General said. No contact has yet been made with the Russians in the north. Many Koreans are bewildered by the American decision to retain the unpopular Abe and the Japanese Government machinery, insisting that their own people, many of whom hold governmental jobs below the Dolicv-making level, could step in and administer the various departments and maintain law ana order. "The continued presence of tne Japanese here is likely to cause all kinds of trouble for both the Japs and the Americans," said an Ameri can-educated Korean who is one of the founders of the Korea Times, one of the two English-language newspapers which have been cs tablished since the Japanese sur render. Ih Buxton mzm 3.50 mm 7 Washington.

Sept. 10 (P) Amazement was expressed by some officials here today at the extent of authority left in the hands of Jap anese administrative officials in Korea. None was willing to be quot ed by name, but their reaction was plain. disclaimed any part in military orders leaving the Japanese in office temporarily. Not Known In Advance Inquiries at the department.

which normally helps work out policy for the administration of liber- ted countries, produced this re sponse: The department did not know anything about the action in advance and it was evidently a decision by the local theater commander. None here could sav whether the decision actually was made by Gen. Douglas MacArthur as supreme Allied representative in the Japanese surrender or by Lieut. Gen. John R.

Hodge, ranking American officer in the occupation of the southern portion of Korea. Lacked Detailed Plans Diplomatic officials here con ceded that the swift arrival of victory over Japan had caught ap Grenade Explodes, But Stratemeyer Is Past Shanghai, Sept. 10 (JP) A hand grenade exploded and killed one Chinese and injured 27 other per sons last night a half hour after an official party, including Lieut. Gen. George Stratemeyer, chief of the United States Air Forces in China, had passed the point en route to a hotel.

Police, describing the grenade as of Japanese make, were investigating the incident, leaning to the theory that the explosion was accidental. One eyewitness said he saw two Japanese soldiers running for a tram when the explosion occurred. Shanghai still is under control of armed Japanese guards pending formal signing of the city's surrender. Accompanying General Stratemeyer were Maj. Gen.

Douglas Weart. new commander of the Shanghai army base, and Chien Ta-chun, Shanghai's new Mayor. They were en route from an air-pdrt-at-Jhe time, following their arrival froth Chungking in a Flying Fortress piloted by Stratemeyer. Excellent Job them without detailed plans for the administration of Korea. It was said jome Japanese tech nicians and other skilled workers were expected to be kept in office temporarily, but the implication was strong that no one in official position at the State Department had expected so complete a retention of the Japanese hierarchy.

Yongieung Kim, president of the Korean Affairs Institute, said in a statement that Koreans would "rather co-operate with a wooden dummy as governor than the most virtuous Japanese." Carry Daggers In Hearts After 40 years of national slav ery, he said, Koreans hate Japanese and "carry a dagger in their hearts for the oppressors." The institute describes itself as a nonpolitical organization of Koreans in the United States working for Korean freedom. Korean slave laborers liberated on Tinian Island, Kim said, showed themselves capable of organizing quickly and electing their own leaders. Now retention of Japanese authorities in Korea, he said, has 'dampened enthusiasm in every Korean heart and sent cold chills up his spine." Saratoga Bringing Home 3,800 Navy Personnel Pearl Harbor, Sept. 10 (IP) The U.S.S. Saratoga, "Grand Old Lady of the Carrier Fleet," is homeward bound across the Pacific today carrying 3,800 navy men home from war.

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It was not numbered in the se quence of Allied directives to the Japanese Imperial Government, but was delivered to the Tokyo Government yesterday after the Americans moved into the Radio Tokyo building to see that these instructions were carried out. Today also MacArthur revealed Proclamation Number 1 to the people of Korea, which was simply the usual formula. It declared Mac-Arthur's authority over Korea below 38 degrees north latitude. Ths proclamation was dated Saturday, when Allied personnel was scheduled to land on the peninsula. Meanwhile, GHQ disclosed that the advance echelon, consisting of 40 representatives of the 11th Airborne Division, left yesterday for Sendai, in northeastern Honshu, where they will remain until the division moves there four days hence.

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It has since sent other civil-affairs experts to Japan, having added to the original group the men who were in schools at the time. B. COCHRANE from Page 1) in Tokyo, except for two of its four regiments; the 8th Cavalry remains in Yokohama and the 12th in Tachl-kawa. Put the latter will be relieved by the Americal Division on Saturday. The Americal Division, now unloading at the Yokohama docks, is expected to complete debarkation today.

The 43d Division and the 14th Corps Headquarters wjll arrive in Japan Thursday, the 14th Corps going to. Sendai. The 77th and 81it divisions will not arrive in Japan until late this month because of shipping difficulties. French-Held Italians To Work Paris, Sept. 10 (JP) The French have notified the Italian Government that approximately 10,000 Italian war prisoners held in France will be given the status cf "free Workers" until their shipment home can be arranged, it was learned tonight.

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