The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-17
 Proceeding Smoothly
 May Need No More Thon 100000
 Troops to Occupy
 Japan; Jop Press
 Further Curtoiled

GeIl. OOuSIdS MdG<AA eAAU@ forecast today that the occll- patton force in Japan can be cut to 100000 regular army men and all "citizen soldiers'' in the Pacific probably can be demobilized within six months.
 Mamoru Shigemitsu, F0r- eign Minister in Japan's pres ent and wartime cabinets, resigned coincident with MacArthur's optimistic pre- diction based on the smooth- ness with which the occupaa ton of the vanquished en1- pire is proceeding. SSapv m-
 Resignation
 The resignation of ShigemitsN eliminated another of the old guard Japanese from the picture Of Japan fast coming under the firm control of MacArthur's occupation forces. He was succeeded by Shigeru Yoshida, former Japanese Ambas- sador to London just before ShigS emitSu held the same post.
 Shigemitsu was foreign minister in the cabinets of Gen. Hileki TojO and Gen. Kuniaki Koiso during the war. He was appointed to the same ministry in Premier Naruhiko'S gov@ ernment had been abolished. tn1SSQasemJf
 Less Requirements
 By using the Japanese govern~ mental structure, he said, he was enforcing the surrender terms with only small fraction of the millions of men, billions of dollars and years of time that would have been neces- sary if an Allied military governs ment had been established. Within six months" he said in q | formal statement, "the occupaticns1 force-llnleSs unseen factors aT1sc-% will probably number not more than 100000 men.
 This size probably is within the framework of our projected regular establishment and will permit the complete demobilization of our citi@ zen Pacific forces which fought 50 long and so nobly througho to vie~ tory.
 "Once Japan is disarmed, this force will be sufficiently strong to insure our will" Macarthur said Japan's future political and governmental struc- ture-involving the fate of Emperor Hirohito as temporal ruler of Jap- anon both a national and interna- tional plane would be decided later upon the highest diplomatic level of the United Nations"
 Other Developments
 Other developments in the occus patton:
 1.-Japanese newspapers told their readers of Japanese atrocities in the Philippines for the first time.
 2.-MacArthur's headquarters ess tablished a super propaganda ageEl~ cy to help re-educate the Japaness people through the press, radios motion pictures and schools. 3-Japan surrendered the lase two members of her Pearl Har- bor" cabinet still at large to ocCu~ patton authorities for trial as war criminals.
 Alt. Gen. Yoshiye Shirokura, former chief of gendarmarie in Tokyo and North China, shot and killed himself in Ichimiya village, Aichi prefecture. 5.-MacArthur announced that the 31st (Dixie), 37th (Buckeyel and 38th Cyclone Divisions now a the Philippines will be returned tu the United States at an early date rather than be assigned occupation duties.
 Formal Statement
 Macarthur revealed what he called 8 drastic cut" in the iri- tended occupation army in formal statement.
 'The unknown quantity in tho initial situation was the dehatable question of whether military gny~ ernment would have to be set up to run the country during the early occupation" he said.
 This might well have involved the employment of several million troops. The entire structure below the political plane involving hun~ dredsa of thousands of people on professional and lower levels woule have had to be reconstituted and replaced.
 'This would have involved z force running into millions of our men, would have taken years tR additional time and untold hillionA of additional dollars.
 By utilizing the Japanese gbp@ ernmental structure to the extent necessary to prevent complete soT cial disintegration, to insure in& ternal distribution, to maintain la@ bor and top revent a calamitouH outbreak of disease or whoiesnl9 starvation, the purposes of the sur render terms can be accornplishe4 with only small fraction of the men, time mad money originalf projected"
 MacArthur said the original lauN ings involved grave risk" but adN ed that the subsequent progress a'A (Continued on Pare g |