The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-14
NIPWA5H-Up WITHIN YEAR
 IS FORECAST
MaeArthur Promises No Kid Gloves" for Nips-
 Domei Suspended

TOKYO, Sept. 14-The occupa-' tion of Japan may be washed up" within year, It. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger predicted today, while Gen. MacArthur promised there would be no kid glove" enforce ment of surrender terms and or dered complete suspension of all Agency.
 Eichelbergcr expressed his views at a press conference in his Eighth Army Headquarters, where he ob- served that when an insular country loses is land, sea and air power and is without raw materials and has big countries sitting on it's Hanks, it can't be much of threat"
 If the Japs continue acting as they are now" he said in answer to a question, within a year this thing should be washed up."
 Estimates Occupation Forces
 He est m a te d the occupation would necessitate the use of about 100000 American troops, but dis closed that orders for some units, notably railroad troops and engin- eering shore parties, already had been cancelled when it was dis covered that Japanese installations were in better shape than expected.
 At present, the Eighth Army has between 90,000 and 100000 men in Japan and more are enroute, Eichelberger said. Continued study of specialized needs, he added, may result in additional cancellations before all scheduled occupation forces arrive.
 Eichelberger said Maj Gen. Oscar w. Griswold would establish occu- patton headquarters for the Four teenth Corps at Senaid today and that full division would follow him by train tomorrow.
 The Twenty Seventh Division, he aid. would occupy Nagato, in northern Honshu, within a few days.
 Macarthur Hits Back
 Macarthur, in his statement re- plying to critics of occupation poli- ,ies thus far pursued, noted the impatience displayed at the so- called "soft' policy. He termed 1t necessary, however, and added
 Tt is extraordinarily difficult for ne at times to exercise that degree of patience which is unquestion- ably demanded if the longtime policies which have been decreed are to be successfully accomplished without repercussions which would ,e detrimental to the well-being of he world, but I am restraining myself to the best of my ability and I am generally satisfied with the progress being made"
 Cites Natural Impulse"
 The Supreme Commander ob- served that, in view of the "at- rocities committed by the enemy mpatience on the part of tn Allied peoples to have the surren- Ter terms rapidly carried out was but a natural impulse.
 Fulfillment of that desire can be accomplished only through careful procedure, he asserted, but promised:
 "The surrender terms aren't soft md they won't be applied in kid glove fashion"
 Another Hara kiri
 Meanwhile, the Japanese Gov ,rnment reported to Eighth Army Headquarters that most of the ,ormer Nipponese leaders on the wanted list of Gen. MacArthur were in custody.
 Another former government of Ficial, It. Gen. Chikahiko Koizumi, Welfare Minister in the Japanese Pearl Harbor Cabinet" took his life by the traditional hara kiri method. His former premier, Gen. Hideki Tojo, continued to improve in a U. S. Army hospital from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
 Koizumi was on the list of more than 40 former war leaders, Black Dragon members and brutal prison commanders and guards whom the Japanese undertook to round up.