The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-31
Plans Under Way For
Formal Surrender as
YankS Save Prisoners
Angered Over
Treatment
by Japs

Unarmed Americans wandered
through the streets OF Tokyo today
while occupation forces famed out
through 200 miles south OF the
capital and reached across Tokyo
Bay to begin taking over the Tate
yama Naval Base.
Expressionless masks and occa.
sional friendly gestures OF Nippon
ese In their own capital and occu-
pied areas was in sharp contrast
with new horror stories told by
1880 prisoners OF war so far freed
from the Tokyo area.
Starved, Beaten
The incoming flood OF heavily
armed troops and the outpouring
of starved and beaten prisoners
steadily increased without waiting
for the epidemic OF surrenders
scheduled to follow signing OF JAP
ans formal capitulation aboard the
battleship Missouri Sunday (Satur.
day night in the United States.)
Japanese commanders in China,
Indo-China, the Philippines, and
Truk are among those who have
arranged formal surrender for the
next few days.
Somberly clothed Japanese
looked curiously at Americans who
preceded occupation troops into the
japanese capital. Like Yokohama,
Tokyo had few bomb craters, al
though the downtown area was
devastated. Fire bombs had swept
on: the paper houses, let concrete
buildings and brick chimneys
standing amid ashes OF the ruined
city.
General Macarthur, now military
ruler OF Japan, soon will move his
headquarters from Yokohama to
the American embassy in Tokyo.
To Take over
His move will follow, at an un.
announced time, the arrival Satur-
day FRIDAY afternoon U. S. time)
OF major units OF 1t. Gen. Robert
L. Eiche'berger's Eighth Army
which will take over the Tokyo
area.
The Eighth will land at Yokoha-
ma. already occupied by members
OF the 18th airborne division which
landed yesterday at Atsugi Air
field, and at Tateyama near the
tip OF the peninsula separating
Tokyo Bay from the ocean. A COM
pany OF marines moved into Tate
yama today to prepare for their
arrival.
No Incident
Like every other move OF Allied
forces into the main island OF Jap
an. the action was without Incl
dent.
Many japanese expressed RELIEF
that the war was over bu. they had
no love for defeat or an alien army
on their sacred islands. Stories
were told OF plans by the Kamikaze
(sucide) corps to shoot down the
Emperors surrender emissaries to
Macarthur, a plot said to have
been thwarted by the Emperor
himself.
The work OF war went on for
busy American minesweepers, hey
swept over Tokyo Bay, now an
American lake pockmarked by
wreckage OF the Imperial Navy.
The Yokosuka naval base, once
the proud guardian of approaches
to Tokyo, was being developed as
a shore station for Admiral Hal
sey's Third Fleet and attacked
British units.
Occupation to Spread
Occupation will spread to south
ern Japan next Monday when Gen.
Walter Kruegers SIKH Army vet
Grams OF New Guinea and the Phil
ippines start moving into Kyushu
Island.
Chinese troops moved into Han
kow. long the invaders base in
central China, and started down
the road to Hanoi, capital OF lndo-
China.
L. S. minesweepers worked over
waterways OF China to speed eyac-
uatlon of prisoners Of war and U. s.
troops. l.. Gen. Albert c. Wede-
meyer said Shanghai should be op-
en- to commerce by October and
the Yanks out of China by spring.
open Up Hong Kong
A British naval force, headed by
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