The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-25

| \ ment that troops would land on Kyushu, but gave no date. Toyko had reported that the landings would begin there Sept. 1.
 Japanese headquarters reported to Macarthur earlier today that typhoons had turned the landings airfelds into g. morass, disrupted communications and flooded a wide area marked for occupation. | Full Combat Invasion Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, whose Fifth fleet will help support the landings, said the occupation forces would go ashore with full combat equipment at docks and across beaches from all types of ships commonly used in an amphi- bious invasion of hostile shores. we will go prepared for any, thing" Spruance said, but I have every expectation that the landings will come off all right. I believe the Japanese government is doing everything possible to accede to General MacArthur's wishes"
 Spruance said he was confident that minesweepers would clear safe channels through American and Japanese mines into Tokyo Bay, where Japan will sign the Allied surrender terms abroad the Ameri- can Battleship Missouri a week from tomorrow. An ABC broadcast from fleet units standing oil Tokyo said all preparations had been completed for the landing of occupation troops.
 One hundred American major caliber guns will be pointing at the narrow strait at the entrance to Tokyo Bay as a precaution when fleet units move into the Yokosuka Naval Base area Thursday.
 Sea-bee units will follow combat troops ashore to ready installations for liberated war prisoners and in- ternees as well as the occupation forces themselves. The Japanese al- ready have been ordered to set up @ 500-bed hospital for the prisoners and internees at Yokosuka. Grants Request MacArthur granted 8 Japanese request to permit Japanese news men and cameramen to cover the landings and surrender ceremony. A maximum of 10 Japanese cor respondents, still photographers and newsreel cameramen will be per- mited at the landings at Atsugi air. drome, YokoSuka Naval Base and Kanoya, the latter on KyuShu, he said. Only two newsmen, one photo- grapher and newsrel cameraman will be permitted at the formal ceremony.
 Apparently seeking to eliminated the possibility that Japanese radio stations might broadcast eyewitness descriptions of the landings to the United States before Allied news men could clear their dispatches, MacArthur ordered.
 Permission is predicated on the condition that the material ob- tained on these events be published only in the Japanese homeland using the Japanese language. It is desired that there be no short wave overseas broadcasts or news dispatches in any language"
 Plans
 Japan, meantime, continued to carry out MacArthur's preliminary requirements for the occupation. Withdrawal of Japanese troops from the occupation<area south of Tokyo was expected to be completed today, Radio Tokyo said.
 Japanese Imperial Headquarters informed MacArthur that, fire broke out in the Kurihama Naval Engin- eering school while ammunition was being stored there in compliance with his instructions to remove all explosives from warships.
 The fire followed an explosion in the ammunition, the message said. Efforts were being made to extin- guish the blaze, 1t added. Tokyo presumably informer Mac- Arthur of the blaze because of fears that Allied reconnaissance planes sighting the flames might think the Japanese were carrying out demo- litions contrary to the surrender terms.