The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-19
laps Surrender Enjoys
Land On Tiny lie Island

The japanese did not say so, but
over SATANIC Cape on the southeast
tip Of Kyushu their planes will be
picked up by 36 Lightning fight
ers which will ride herd on them
to an airfield at lie island, west
Of Okinawa.
Taking off Is minutes later than
the previously promised hour of 7
am, the plane was expected
around pm. on lie, whose per-
sonnet in common with those on
OkinaWa was burning with indig-
nation over the second attack in
two days on their reconnaissance
planes over Tokyo.
At lie, the Japanese will switch
to waiting U. S. Army transport
plane which will take them on the
five-to six-hour flight to an air
base at Manila-too late to open
the conference today.
Will Meet Macarthur
Instead, their credentials will be
examined and then tomorrow they
will come face to face with Mac
Arthur, the general they once bat
tied on Bataan and Who-they later
boasted-would be caught and fore
ed to capitulate after bringing his
armies back to the Philippines.
MacArthur's headquarters was
keeping many of the details of the
conference cloaked in secrecy, for
the Filipinos have not so soon for
gotten the brutalities Of Japan's
iron rule in the Archipelago.
It is understood that the Japan
csc delegation will be housed in
special residences with 4 military
police guard.
A dispatch from Okinawa had said
the envoy plane would set down
at famed Nichols Field and it was
permitted to report yesterday that
the meeting would be held in the
conference room of the Filipino
president.
Now, however, headquarters de-
clines to reveal just where Mac
Arthur will meet the Japanese or
give other advance details.
Macarthur will be thanked by
of all the Allied
powers when he comes face to face
with the agents of that island en-
pire which he has fought relent-
Lessly since those somber days of
Bataan.
Representatives Arrive
British and Australian represen-
tatives were among the first to
arrive, and three-man delegation
China's Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek flew In from
-hungking yesterday.
(There has been no report from |
however, that army repre-
sentative of Russia has arrived.)
Still to be announced are plans |
.or signing the articles Of surrend-
in Tokyo.
In China, ManchUria and even
n the far.off Solomons the Japan
,se armies were quitting.
The U. Strained Chinese First
Army, victor in the Battle of North
Burma, prepared to march into
>anton-one of China's four great
st cities which has bent to the
Japanese yoke for more than SIX
1ears-to accept the formal sur
ender of the enemy's South China
rmies this week.
Gen. Ho Ying-Chin, commander
f China's field forces, will meet
tuesday with ENJOYS OF 1t. zen.
1osuji Okamura, japanese COM
handler in China, at the air base
ity of ChiAkiang, $50 miles north
rest of Canton.
Okamura declared that already
IL his armies were In state
( cessation of hostilities."
A Soviet commission was report
d by the Siberian radio station
+ Khabarovsk to have flown yes
srday to Hardin, in the Industrial
cart of Manchuria, to take the
apanese surrender delegation to
le headquarters Of the command
of the Russian armies in Siberia.