Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19
zekes Again
Attack B-32s;
Roll NJ Arthur

TeoCe MISSION IoIo
Sharply TO Follow
Flight Instructions
MANILA, Aug. 10 Sunday
UNS)-An arrogant new. Jap at.
tack, killing one and wounding
two American airmen on a recon.
naissance flight. aroused indigna-
ton today in Manila, where Gen.
Macarthur prepared to receive
Japanese surrender delegates in
"a hours.
For a second straight day. B-32
planes flying a strictly photo
graphic mission over the Tokyo
area were savagely fired upon
yesterday Saturday by jeering
Jap fighter pilots and barking
ground guns.
Fourteen "Zeke" fighters
ganged up on two B-32s hours
after Tokyo hal radioed MacAr.
thur that representatives of En-
peror Hirohito and the Jap armed
forces would take off from Japan
at z a. m. today (6 p. m. Satur-
day, EWT) for Manila.
-t Tokyo radio reported tonight
that the plane bearing the Jap
anese surrender euyoys- lett
Kfsarazu airdrome, Tokyo. at q
am. Sunday q p. m. Saturday,
EWT) enroute to lie Shima.)
MUST CALL BATAAN'
Two Jap planes, which will take
the surrender delegation to Ie
Island to be picked up by Ameri-
can aircraft, were sternly redie
rected by Macarthur to use the
significant code word 'rBataan,s In
the face of an obvious enemy re.
luctance to do so.
Macarthur had announced late
last night that the first prelimi-
nary surrender conference with
the enemy enissaries would be
held Monday (Sunday, u. 8. tirne1.
when word of the new outrage
against nonhostile American n
ers reached Manila this morning.
The Ia 'Zekes"--the pilot Of
one of which taunted a crippled
American plane-drove the two
B-32s into the range of roaring
Jap anti-aircraft batteries near
Tokyo.
B-32 DAMAGED ---
One of the B-32's had its engine
shot out and suffered other seri-
Gus damage when hit by flax.
One of its crew members was
killed Immediately, another was
gravely wounded and a third
slightly injured. 49,
The heavily outnumbered Amer.
ican bombers fought back gal.
lantly. They shot down at least
two and probably four Of the
swirling Jap fighters.
After the crippled B-32 had lost
one of its four engines, its pilot
radioed the other big bomber to
"slow down." whereupon one of
the Jap fighter pilots cut into the
inter-phone r dio conversation
with the jeering remark: f
"Yes, slow down so that / can
shoot you down."
RETURNS TO BASE
The damaged B-32 managed to
return to base. along with its
companion plane.
On Friday. the japanese had
sprung a similar attack When
eight enemy fighters pounced on
four B-32's, damaging one OF
them, over Tokyo zone. In that
incident two Jap fighters were
downed.
1t was against this background
of continued informal hostilities
that Macarthur set the stage for
the momentous Manila meeting
with the Jap delegates who are
TO receive detailed surrender
terms. pending subsequent
formal ceremony.
The two Jap surrender planes.
which Tokyo said would take on
lIOfIl lne hlSuIuLh al dOiht Schssf~
east of the enemy capital. were
ordered by Macarthur TO "use
code signs Bataan One and Ba-
tsan Two"
INSTRUCTIONS MODIFIED
The japanese surrender ennis.
saries were due 10 land on Ie
Shima Cisland). just west Of Oki.
nawa at 1:20 o'clock this after
noon (11:20 p. m. Saturday. EWT).
There the enemy delegates were
TO be put aboard an American
kC-54 transport plane for the rest
of the flight.
LONDON, Aug. IS qNS)-The
Lisbon radio said tonight that
japanese forces on Timor Island
have surrendered TO the governor
of the island. The japanese an.
lnounced Yesterday that they were
returning the Island TO the Portu-
'guese.