The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-23
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LONDON-The government told Commons today it expected to re- lease more than 100000 persons from the armed services by the end of the year and about 1,150,000 from war production within two months.
 NEW YORK The New York Times in a Washington dispatch said today that the United States, Great Britain and Russia would undertake joint political action to halt an incipient civil war in China Also that the three great powers plan joint occupation of Korea.
 SAN FRANCISCO-An extraordi- ary session of the Japanese Diet will be convened September and 3 to drive home to the nation" the stark reality" of Japan's defeat and to clarify the circumstances leading to the end of the war, the Japanese 
 Domei News Agency said today.
 LONDON-The principal British Laborite newspaper, the London Daily Herald, says that it is definite that Lord Halifax will return as British Ambassador to Washington. Lord Halifax is Conservative, and there have been rumors that he in tended to resign his post.
 SAN FRANCISCO - A Tokyo broadcast says that the Supreme Commander of Japanese forces in North China, General Shimomura, has been appointed Minister of War in the Japanese Cabinet He relieves Premier Prince Higashi-Kuni of the post he was holding concurrently with the Premiership.
 RANGOON-The commander of the Japanese forces in Burma has COIllll iIlCd lllC CCdoC lllC dCI III d message to Allid commanders. The acknowledgement by Lieutenant Gen eral Kimura was the first direct communication received by the Allies from the Japanese command in Burma.
 SYDNEY, Australia-An Austral- ian correspondent has disclosed that Japanese commanders on Bougain- vile Island have impudently re- fused to surrender until the formal papers are signed at Tokyo. MOSCOW-The PreSidtum of the , Soviet Ukraine has joined the long list of United Nations which al- ready have ratified the San Fran cisco charter. Meanwhile, debate on the charter is continuing in the British House of Commons, with speedy ratification anticipated. MADRID-The end of the Franco regime in Spain has been forecast by one of the Generalissimo's own Cabinet members. Foreign Minister Alberto Martin Artajo has told Spanish newsmen that Franco's re- gime will one day end in tradi- tional monarchy" Artajo did not say how far off this day is, nor did he predict who would be king. ! OKINAWA - American officials have taken into consideration the possibility that Allied forces may encounter trouble when the occupa- tion of Japan begins on Sunday. As result, it was announced that hundreds of troop transport planes will be fully alert as they near the surrendered empire.
 LONDON-Britain's new Labor government introduced legislation today seeking broad authority to re- tain for at least five years many of it's wartime emergency controls, in cluding the right to peg prices and regulate services and supplies.
 SAIRO-Mahmud Issawy, convict ed of staying Premier Ahmed Pasha, died today after a two-week hunger strike. The 26-year- Cairo lawyer was under sentence to be hanged. The Premier was shot to death as i he left the Chamber of Deputies after announcing Egypt's declaration of war against the Axis last Feb ruary.
 WASHINGTON-Owen J. Roberts, of Philadelphia, who recently retired from the U. s. Supreme Court bench, 1 has refused an important interna- tional assignment, but President Truman hopes he will reconsider. The Chief Executive made this known today at a news conference.
 WASHINGTON = The Navy dis closed today that two of it's mod ern 35,000-ton battleships, the l Washington and the Indiana, col lided February 1, 1944. as they were withdra wing after a bOmbardment