Evening star., 1945-09-01
Americans uking
No Chances on
Attack by Jops

SCeel grip dlOIlS DOtIl MUGS VI
Tokyo Bay, the stage on which
will be played out the greatest
military pageant of the CEN
tury-the final and formal sur
render of the japanese Empire.
AS the hour OF the ceremony
aboard the battleship Missouri
neared, the 9th Army Of 1t. Gen.
Robert L. Eichelberger was sched-
uled to begin mass landings In the
bay sector by nightfall tonight.
GA radio report said the land
ings already had beguno
Up to the last moment, Gen. Mac
Arthur, supreme Allied commander
was taking no chances that some
fanatic, some die-hard militarist,
some kamikaze such as those known
to have flown their own planes OF
into hiding, might start something.
Gen. Spaatz, commander of the
Strategic Air Forces, warned that
at any sign Of trouble in this occu-
patton his planes were ready to
drop at least 5000 tons OF bombs
on Japan.
Endless Procession of Boats.
Boats came and went in almost
endless procession in Tokyo Bay as
final plans were made for the sur
render.
Tokyo was reported declared out
of bounds to all Americans, mclud-
ing correspondents, because of an
incident, but the particulars were
not known here nor could the order
itself be confirmed.
AS a backdrop there was the
horror endured by prisoners of war.
who poured from their stockades Of
death and degradation with ac-
counts of the wanton cruelties in
hicted on them in the years when
Japan was riding the crest of con-
quest.
Shoe on the Other Foot.
Now, as 1t. Gen. Jonathan M.
Wainwright remarked: THE shoe
was on the other foot" He and his
staff who survived the forced sur
render of the Philippines and the
years behind enemy wire arrived to
witness the japanese surrender sig
natures.
Gen. Macarthur laid his plans at
a private conference last night with
Admirals NimitZ and Halsey and
Gems. Spaatz and Kenney in Yoko-
hama's New Grand Hotel.
Gen. Macarthur warmly greeted
Gen. Wainwright, the man in whose
command he left the losing battle
of Bataan in March, 1912, when he
was sent to Australia to organize
the long trek back to victory.
Gen. Wainwright made a brief
broadcast to the people of the United
States, expressing his gratitude "for
their generous understanding of my
dire misfortune" at Corregidor.
Japs Try to Postpone Ceremony.
Japanese imperial headquarters
made one half-hearted attempt to
postpone the national ignominy a
little longer by asking On. Mac
Arthur today for further confer
ences on surrender terms, but it
was declared at this headqarters
that the ceremony aboard the Mis-
souri, would procede as scheduled.
Already on hand were the rep
resentatives of Brit>in, Australia,
New Zealand, France, the Neither
lands and Russia.
Gen. Eichelberger, who came in
advance Of his army, declared, 1T
the japanese continue their present
attitude, there will be no trouble
for them or for u.s."
If there should be, however, Gen
Spaatz's air forces were ready to
drop their bombs.
Throughout the Pacific, the Japa-
nese were surrendering or arranging
to surrender vast forces peaceably
The only untoward incident re-
ported was the attempted escape
of three japanese suicide boats
from Hong Kong, where British
aircraft promptly sank one, beached
another and forced the third back
to port.
Surrender of Hong Kong was te
be organized today at conferences
between British Rear Admiral c
H. j. Harcourt and the japanese
commander.
Yamashita to Surrender.
In the Philippines, the one-timt
Tiger of ,Malaya," 1t. Gen. Tomo.
yuki Yamashita, agreed to go tt
(See OCCUPATION, Page A-3.)