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i Jap Forces In S.E.
Asia, East Indies
Surrender
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SINGAPORE. Sept. 13-— /^P) — |
Admiral Mountba'ten received
the surrender of all Jap forces in
southeast Asia and the East Indies ;
from Gen. Itagaki. Representing
the ailing commander of the Jap
southern armies was Marshal
Count Terauchi.
Promptly after the ceremony
the Allied Southeast Asia com
mander announced he would tol
erate no arrogance from the Japs,
and told his troops they would
have his support “in taking the j
sternest measures against any Jap
attempt at obstinacy, impudence
or non-cooperaion.”
The surrender involved about'
^ighty-five thousand Jap troops in !
the Singapore area and some half i
million soldiers and sailors in the;
“southern regions” of southeast j
Asia and the East Indies.
By instrument the Japs gave up
the richest and most expansive of
its conquests in its long campaign '
of aggression. The area stretching
forty-five hundred miles from the
►Bay of Bengal to Hollandia and
embracing a million and a half
square miles and populated by
one hundred twenty-eight million
people.
Trench fever or typhus is trans
mitted by lice.
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NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH
TO BE BUILT
A new Catholic Church is to be
built on Second Avenue and
Stedman in the near future, was
announced by Fa:her Anabel at
the Council meeting Monday eve
ning.. For the time being two tem
porary buildings will be placed on
the proper.y, which has been pur
chased from O. M. Powell, Lam
bert Voss, Ernest Balsinger, and
the City of Nome. Plans for the
new edifice will be released later.
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Wanted For Trial;
1 ojo 1 nes Suicide
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‘‘very satisfactory.” Tojo himself
was strong enough to thank them
and to tell a Jap government rep
resentative, T. Suguki, who vis
ited him in the American hospital
in Yokohama, he appreciated the
care he was getting. The blood
donation came from Sgt. John
Archinal, veteran of New Guinea
and the Philippines, who said
‘‘I’m doing this so he can get his
just dues and suffer for the sev
enteen months he made me spend
on New Guinea.”
As Tojo lived on, the Tokyo pa
per Mainichi, said ‘‘the general
masses clamored for his death.”
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Evacuated From
Jap Prison Camp
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like a guest for the next three
years, good quarters, good food,
and the help of servants occa
sionally.
Sometimes she could even walk
the streets of Yokohama accom
panied by a guard. A month after
her arrival she was joined by
eighteen Australian nurses cap
tured on New Guinea. She said
she saw two of them slapped and
knocked down. Later the women
were transferred to the Yokohama
Yacht Club, where they spent
many months.
When it became apparent that
Yokohama would be bombed they
were moved twenty-one miles
away to the village of Totsuka.
Food became worse and she heard
the broadcast of Hirohito ending
the war, but didn’t grasp the sig
nificance. Then the Jap cook told
her “American bombs killed lots
of people and the Emperor decid
ed to end the war.”
| On August 31, United States
I troops liberated the group. “The
; children of Japan are teachable. I
J sympathize with the poor people.
I They hardly know what it is all
about, and they are tired of war.
They have a saying which trans
lated means ‘before Japan had
plenty, now Japan have little.”
Mrs. Jones will leave soon for
Seattle to check on her Attu pro
perty, then go to St. Paris, Ohio,
to visit her brother-in-law Cecil
Jones, and on to Atlantic City to
visit her brother Russel Schure
man.
International
Airline Opened
To Russia
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MOSCOW, April 12— iJF) — Iz
vestia announced a Soviet operat
ed international airline had been
opened bewteen United States and
Russia via Alaska and Yakutsk,
Siberia.
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EARL COULTHARD RETURNS
FROM POINT BARROW
Mr. Earl Coulthard of the Nome
Builders returned to Nome Mon
day evening from Barrow, via
Fairbanks.
Mr. Coulthard has been at Bar
row for the past few weeks direct
ing the construction of the Wien
Alaska Airlines hotel-office build
ing. He says the construction is
going along nicely and will be
completed soon.
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Industrial Sugar
Quota Stays Same
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—</P)—
OPA has announced that indus
trial sugar allotments will be
maintained at the current rate
during the last three months of
this year.
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Optimist—No, but I haven’t had
all that I didn’t want, either.
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