The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-24
FIRM HOLD
 TO BE PUT
 ON NIpp0NS
Territory from Tokyo 10 Kysugu 10 Be Taken Over
 -Typhoon His Island

| BULLETIN - MANILA, Aug.
 24. General Macarthur an-
 ncunced today that an advanced American occupation party
 would land in Japan Sunday to
 prepare the way for the main
 forces which will arrive two days later.
 headquarters spokesman de-
 clarcd that MacArthur, despite 1 the typhoon which disrupted
 communications around Tokyo | Wednesday, would land on schedule next Tuesday. l The fact that the first forces 1 would reach Japan Sunday had becn trumpeted by the Tokyo radio for days, but this was the
 first official confirmation. ! MANILA, Aug. 24.--Allicd occupa- ticnal forces will expand their grip on Japan from Tokyo to Kyushu. scuthernmost home island. Sept. 1-- four days after General MacArthur's scheduled landing near the typhoon- crippled capital-the Japanese gov- itlnment and Imperial Headquarters announced today. -v----A--r------.
 Tokyo informed Cen. MacArthur's headquarters that typhoon howled through the Kanto district early Thursday morning and interfered with preparations for Allied land ings there. There was no direct re- quest for postponement of Tues days major Tokyo landings, how ever. Presumably the storm affect ed principally the preparations for advance units Japan said would reach Atsugi Field Sunday.
 Two Landings
 Airborne forces will reach Kyu- shu's Kanoya airfield Sept. l, to- days Japanese-language commun- ique reported, one day after for maj surrender is signed aboard the battleship in Tokyo Bay.
 Saaborne forces will follow. ."On Sept. g." the communique said, the main strength of the air borne and surface units will land in the vicinity of Takasu on the coast west of Kanoya.
 Tn order to avoid complications. our armed units will be withdrawn from the areas where the Allied Armies are to land"
 There was no immediate Allied confirmation of the Kyushu landing dates.
 Japan earlier had messaged direct ly to General Macarthur protest against sinking of four Japanese ships in Hokkaido waters Wednes- day by submarine which presum- ably belongs to the Soviet Union" The message said there were 553 casualties on one of the four ves- sells
 Mercy Ship" Granted
 Another message said a Mercy Ship" whose voyage to Marcus Is- land General Macarthur had ap- proved would proceed unarmed thera Tuesday and return to Tokyo Satur- day of next week-one day after Japan's formal surrender.
 The Japanese report of the ty- phoon said communications and transportation had been snarled iii the Tokyo area.
 Charges Made
 Then typhoon report was one of a series of radiograms with which Tokyo bombarded Macarthur today Another complained that Japanese were being shot. footed and raped in certain localities" of Manchuria, inner Mongolia and North Korea and asked permission for Japanese sol- diers there to keep their weapons until residents have been moved to places of safety"
 The complaint did not identify the nationality of those accused of the "outrages' but said the situation is certain to get out of control in the very near future"
 Meanwhile, Tokyo radio beamed English language broacasts express ing apprehension over '.the size of the separations" the Allies may de- mand.
 The broadcasts. for American, con- sumption, dwelt on possible conduct of Allied occupation forces. saying. we have a right to hope and to ex-