Evening star., 1945-08-22
Formal Jap Surrender
10 Chinese Will Be
Signed al Marking
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
CHUNGkING, Aug. 22.-Japan's
formal surrender to China will
be signed in Nanking, former
seat OF Generalissimo Chang
kai-shek's government, P. H
Chang, cabinet spokesman, an
-nounced today.
Semi-official sources said the sign
ing would not take place, however
until after Gen. MacArthur's for
NAL signing with the Japanese.
K. C. WI, foreign office spokes-
man, said Chinese troops might be
flown into Marking, Shanghai, Peip-
ing and Tientsin even before
Japans formal surrender"
Meanwhile, japanese surrender
ENJOYS conferred at Chihkiang, 23O
miles southwest of Chungking, with
Gen. Ho Ying-chin, commander of
China's field forces, who was desig-
mated by the Chinese generalissimo
to arrange for the capitulation of
all enemy forces in China.
Gen. Ho handed the Japanese
emissaries memorandum specify
ing the areas which would be oc-
cupied by the Chinese and naming
the Chinese appointed to take them
over.
Fab to Control Hong Kong.
Gen. Fab Wei-chang was chosen
to take over Hong Kong, Canton.
the Luichow peninsula and Hainan
Island.
British Foreign Secretary Ern-
est Bevin said Monday that the
British had taken steps to re-
celye the surrender of the Jap
anese forces in Hong Kong.0
Among other areas listed for re-
occupation by the Chinese were the
inner Mongolian provinces of Jehol,
Chahar and Suiyuan, south of Rus
sian occupied territory.
"a Chikiang dispatch said Chi
nese forces will take over a small
portion Of Thailand and quoted
HOS memorandum as specifying
that Chinese troops would oc-
cupy Formosa and the part of
French Indo-China north of the
10th degree, z 1t confirmed re-
ports that tie British would land
In Southern Indo- China.
Foreign Office spokesman WI
promised reply at a later conference
when asked whether Russian forces
would be withdrawn from Man.
chur1a after the surrender of the
Japanese Kwangtung Army.
special session of the legislative
Yuan was summoned for Friday to
discuss ratification of the Chinese
Russian pact of alliance and friend
ship negotiated in Moscow by Pre-
mier T. v. Soong.
Authorities announced they would
instruct the japanese to sweep the
Yangtze River of all mines from
Shanghai to Ichang, 965 miles up
stream. by September l. Ichang
was the westernmost point of jap
anese penetration up the Yangtze.
The surrender m moran dum
specified that the Chinese would oc-
cupy Formosa and French Indo-
China north of the 10Th degree, in
directly confirming reports that the
British would land forces in South
efn do-China.
Jap ENJOYS Arrive.
The Japanese ENJOYS arrived yes
terday at Chihkiang in a speckled
green and white transport accom-
panieo Hy fighters of the Chinese
American, composite wing. Veterans
of Chins's crack 9th Army and
American military police guarded
the field as the japanese EXPIRES
'sionless and carrying light baggage
descended from the plane and were
loaded into jeeps. Approximately
5000 Chinese and Americans
watched the arrival.
The United States was represented
at the Chinese-Japanese surrender
by Brig. Gen. Hayden
l.. Boatner, San Antonio, Tex.
The Chinese high command an
today that more cities, some
of them rich important prizes, had
been reoccupied by Chinese troops. |
These included Taiyuan, provincial
capital of Shansi; Yushih, a high
way center leading to the japanese
base at Kaifeng, and Chaohsien,
Hofei and Wuwei in Central Anhwei.
Chinese troops in Inner Mongolia !
reached the vicinity of Kweisui.