The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-15
JAPAN PUT
 IN PROPER
 PLACE NOW
Told 10 Quit Atting as Equal to Her Conquering
 Allied Nations

TOKYO, Sept. 15-Gen. MacAr- | thurs headquarters bluntly in- ! formed Japan today that she was not an equal of the Allies in any way and would have to quit acting Ike one.
 While four more of Japan's wanted big-shot militarists surren- dered to Japanese police, Col. Donald Hoover, head of censorship in MacArthur's counter-intelligence office, called in the heads of Japan's press and radio, told them that their distorted stories of the occupation must cease forthwith and that Japan was "a defeated enemy which had not yet demon strated the right to a place among civilized nations"
 Hoover announced that the Domei agency, suspended yesterday because of distortions and bad faith, would be permitted to re- sume operations only on limited domestic scale and under 100 per cent U. s. censorship, but that Doinei and any others who trans gressed again would be closed.
 One Time Terror Gives Up
 Meanwhile. It. Gen. Masaharu Homma, one-time terror of the Philippines. which he conquered in 1942, and his successor, It. Gen. Shigenori Kuroda, drove to a sub urban Japanese police station and surrendered to await questioning by the Americans.
 Homma glibly asserted that he had not ordered the Bataan Death March and that 1t wasn't so bad, anyhow, brushing off the proven horrors of that cruel Il Ter ing of captured Americans on Luzon. He acknowledged. however, that as the commander he was responsible for acts of his subordinates.
 Kuroda, evidently not trying to be humorous, remarked, We lost the war-there must have been some mistake
 Kuroda said 10000 American prisoners were held in the Philip pines under his command May, l943-Sept. l944) but he knew of no atrocities.
 Both High On Wanted" List
 Both generals were high on Gen. MacArthurs list of men wanted for questioning and possible trial as war criminals.
 Both speak English with pro- nounced British accents They con- versed with each other quietly in Japanese most of the time, how ever They took keen interest in the bomb damage in the Tokyo and Yokohama industrial areas, which they said they had not seen before. Kuroda said 1t was ter rible.' He also was instantly in- terested in the first American jeep that he saw.
 Hcmma, in an interview, said that in the spring of 1922 the de- fense of Corregidor was so strong that he had been about ready to conclude that his assault was failure, when he saw the dying American garrison run up the white flag.
 Homma insisted that he was sur prised to find himself on Gen. MacArthurs wanted" list. He also was surprised, he remarked, when he learned on Dec. 8, 194l, tJapa- nese time) of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
 Now retired and wearing a baggy blue civilian suit. Homma asserted:
 We have been beaten and want to be good loser
 Another Surrender
 Col. Kingoro Hashimoto, the man generally blamed for ordering the bombing of the American Gunboat Panay in the Yangtze River in 1887. but wanted by Macarthur as a member of the Black Dragon terrorist society, surrendered to U. s. Eighth Army Headquarters, Japanese sources reported.
 At the some time, Yoshitaka Ueda, who is not on the wanted list, offered himself at Eighth Army Headquarters. His connec-