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M. EXTRA MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1945 CENTS, SUNDAY 15 CENTS TSu5Sf 11 3 1 4 Yanks Set t-1 A On Japan Capital On 1 speaking during the surrender 1 8th Army Ashore; 35,000 Await Arthur Signal YOKOHAMA, Sept. 3 (Monday Surrendered Japan, quests and arms, was under stern foreign military rule today (Sunday, United States time) for the first time in her long and pug nacious history. Thirty minutes after render on, the battleship yesterday (5:18 p. m.

time), a forty-two ship lVonnth A5 DAILY 5 STALIN HAIL JSP DEFEAT AS KEY TO PEACE Conditions to Guard Against War Declared Already Won LONDON, Sept. 2. (AP) Generalissimo -Stalin, personally broadcasting to the people of the Soviet Union the news of the Japanese surrender, said today that with the end of the Second World War "conditions necessary for peace of the world have already been won." The Generalissimo hailed "the armed forces of the Soviet Union, the United States of America, China and Great Britain which have won over Japan." TO GET KURILES. Stalin said that with the de feat of Japan, Russia would re-1 gain southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands as a means of direct communication to the sea and "as a base for the defense of the country against Japanese aggression." Southern Sakhalin and the Ku-riles were obtained by the Japanese from Russia after Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. Moscow announced yesterday the final occupation of the last of the islands in the 550 mile Kurile chain.

HOLIDAY. A few minutes after Stalin com pleted his eight minute address the Moscow radio announced that tomorrow would be a holiday. Reviewing the conflict with Germany and Japan, Stalin de clared that "Germany in the west and Japan in the east" unleashed the Second World War and "placed humanity and its civiliza tion on the verge of destruction. "The hotbed of aggression in the west was eliminated four months ago and as a result Germany was compelled to surrender," Stalin said. "Four months later the hotbed of world aggression in the east was eliminated and as a result (Continued on Page 2, Col.

1) 'Unknown9 POWs Iloaiiiing Japan NEW YORK, Sept. 2. (INS) A broadcast from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said today Japanese failure to keep records of American prisoners was complicating liberation. Declaring there were an estimated 11,500 American prisoners on Honshu Island alone, the broadcast said hundreds of others were wandering about Japan, their names unknown to United States authorities.

Bay and began disgorging troops. By nightfall, the United States Eighth Army had landed 13,000 troops, swelling occupation forces to beyond 35,000, and only a signal from General MacArthur was awaited 1 to March stripped of all con Japan signed the sur Missouri at 9:18 a. m. Saturdaj', San Francisco convoy steamed into Tokio for a march on Tokio. commanders to surrender at surrender and the first occu empire's surrender, Emperor.

for the immediate surrender interrupted further airborne Tokio Entry Indefinite When this order might come was not indicated, but a WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. The War Department tonight fixed a new critical point score of eighty for the release of enlisted men from the Army. At the same time, the War Department announced that all enlisted men over the age of 35, who have had two years service, will be discharged immediately. In reducing the critical discharge score from eighty-five to eighty, the War Department also established a new method of computation by which men now on duty overseas will receive eigfu additional points, and men in the Army in the United States Bay.

In the Thi picture All DEDUCES POINT SCORES FOD DISCHARGE spokesman made it clear that no troops would cross the Tama River at Tokio's southern outskirts until MacArthur gave the word. Japanese imperial headquarters under MacArthur's ceremonies aboard the U. S. S. Missouri in Tokio background may be seen the famous old Perry flag, was radioed from a ship in Tokio Bay.

first order radioed all field once. Yamashia Enters U. S. Lines for Surrender This same order at a single stroke surrendered all Japanese arms and war making potential, and the beaten country was warned that all failure or delay would mean "drastic and summary punishment." Premier Prince Higashi-Kuni told the Japanese people to obey the terms of surrender and all orders. Jap Police Keep Arms Only Japanese police charged with maintaining order -now may bear arms.

All aircraft are grounded and all Japanese merchantmen must remain at anchor until further orders. i Japan was returned inexorably to the size at which Cdkimodore Matthew C. Perry found her when he sailed into Tokio Bay in 1853, opened the mysterious land to the Arthur (at microphone), is shown WOULD PEME, TRUMAN PLEDGE TO SERVICE By ROSE McKEK Staff Cnrrpspmidpnt Int'l News Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. President Truman, in a salute to America's victorious armed services, pledged the Nation tonight to make their wishes for a better world come true.

The President addressed American fighting men all over the world at the close of the first day of peace ushered in by Japan's unconditional surrender twenty-four hours earlier. GOOD LIFE. Speaking from 1 the White House at this "high moment of history," the President said that the American soldier and sailor (Continued on Page 4, Col. 1) IN Occident and a Pandora's box of trouble. And the fact that with the pation order all factories and research laboratories fell under MacArthur's control showed clearly that the Allies do not intend to let Japan rearm.

By JAMES WITH THE UNITED STATES THIRTY-S DIVISION, LUZON ISLAND, Sept. 2. (AP) A tamed and docile Japanese "Tiger of Malaya," Lt. Gen. Tomo- yuki Yamashita, gave himself up to American troops today and prepared to surrender formally tomorrow to Lt.

Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, hero of Corregidor. Another drama of the Pacific war was scheduled to be written at Baguio, Philippines summor capital, where arrogant and boastful Yamashita, captor of Ma laya and Singapore, will formally surrender what remains of his shattered armies in this archipelago. TRIUMPH. Facing Yamashita will be the famous "Skinny" Wainwright js the representative of triumphant America, Back In the spring of HUTCHESON 1942 it was Wainwright who, In the face of overwhelming odds, surrendered his heroic band of Corregidor defenders to Japanese General Homma Yamashita came from his mountain hideout in the northern Luzon mountains and surrendered himself this morning to a special American guard force near Kiangan.

Four other Nipponese generals gave up simulta- leously. SMILING "TIGER." Yamashita's smiling, pleasant nd courteous manner was a marked change from the blustering, boastful attitude he consist- ently maintained before the Yanks recaptured the Philippines Clad in a clean but worn uniform and with his samurai sword buckled at his sde, Yamashita (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) On this first day after his Hirohito prepared to worship at three Shinto shrines in the Imperial Palace grounds, Domei agency reported. For the moment, the occupation forces remained in a 700 square mile area stretching south of Tokio, but that condition will not long prevail. MacArthur's orders call to him of all four main home islands, adjacent islands, southern Korea and the Philippines.

Storms of typhoon proportions between Okinawa and the main island of Honshu (Continued on Page 2, Col. 8) tH.