The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-13
Speed Indicated in Takino Into Custody Those on
 'Wdnted List"
10J0 IMPROVING; HAS
 NO DEFENSE TO OFFER
Prince Konoye Gives Im- porfanf Interview fo
 A.P. Correspondent

TOKYO, Sept. l3-Eighth Army Headquarters empowered the Japa- nese Government today to round up the remaining Japanese on Gen. MacArthur's wanted" list.
 No time limit was set, but it was indicated that the government would have to show some progress within two days or the privilege would be withdrawn.
 The government had asked per- mission to handle further arrests after Hideki Tojo. deposed wartime dictator, shot himself two days ago while American officers hammered at his door. Now in satisfactory" condition and able to talk with today, Tojo had headed MacArthurs list of those sought for questioning about war crimes.
 Japan today reported formally that it's imperial headquarters had been abolished in compliance with
 
 MacArthur's orders, and MacAr- thur announced that Gen. Walter Krueger of the Sixth Army and Vice Admiral Harry Hill of the Fifth Amphibious Force would enter Sasebo, Kyushu. Sept. 20 to pre- pare for its occupation two days later.
 No Defense By Tojo
 Tojo offered no defense of his mllltarist governmen It which launched the Pearl Harbor attack. while Prince Fumimaro Konoye, present vice premier, blamed mili- tarists like Tojo for his own failure to avert war
 Konoye. interviewed by Associated Press Correspondent Russell Brines, said he tried vainly to meet Presi- dent Roosevelt in the summer of l941 and believed he could have avoided the var by doing so, but the militarists and Japans inter- national reputation "as a liar" blocked the meeting.
 The Japanese Government long have had a reputation as liars" he told Brines, because they were un- able to control Japanese militarists in. the field, or often didn't know what the militarists were doing"
 Knew War Lost
 Prince Konoye called on Gen. Macarthur today, Allied Head- quarters announced without ampli- fication.
 Japans business leaders empha- sized in an interview today that both the militarists and the in- dustrialists knew before surrender that the war was lost--before the fiist atomic bomb dropped, but that militarists wouldn't admit it and we industrialists were too cow ardly to speak out" The nation, they said, was industrially para lyzed and on the verge of starva- ton.
 As Tojo. raised to a semi-sitting position, ate his first food since he attempted suicide Tuesday, others who had played major roles with him since the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor either were being rounded up or were doing a more effective job of self elimination.
 The navy minister to Tojo's in- famous Pearl Harbor Cabinet" Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, sur rendered quietly at his home to an officer. saying he had contemplated suicide but changed his mind Like Tojo, he faces ques- tioning and possible court martial as a war criminal
 But the man whom the Japanese war machine had planned to lead the defense of Honshu's vital Kanto Plain against American invasion. Field Marshal Gen. Sugyiyama. killed himself with a pistol shot through the head at his office near the emperor's palace.
 More suicides were believed likely as the hunt progressed for the listed persons, including seven sus- pected key members of the dreaded Black Dragon Society" which has been ordered disbanded