Evening Standard
3 0 AUG 1945
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WARSHIPS SAIL INTO HONGKONG
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where the occupation forces Tokyo and in the grey dawn the
were going in. They have been paratroopers landed.
withdrawn without incident. Airplanes touched down at an Then, turning to the leader of average rate of one
the 11th Division's band playing minutes.
every two
round
in his honour, he said: "That is They unloaded, turned the sweetest music I have ever and took off again to keep the heard."
traffic of troops and supplies pour- ing into the beach-head."
ANOTHER D-DAY
GRAND HOTEL H.Q.
The Japanese news agency said Back in Okinawa, 900 miles General MacArthur went at once to Yokohama, where Allied head-away: airplanes continued to take off. the air caravan forming a quarters will be established in the! bridge to Atsugi
Grand Hotel.
Okinawa last night was like
It is MacArthur's day-the man England before D-Day. So great airplanes
was
the number of
who came back from the loss of the Philippines to achieve an historic unopposed landing with required that some were brought
from Africa. mighty Allied land, sea and air forces on the soil of Japan.
He has told the Japanese that the occupation of Kyushu, southernmost Japanese main island, will begin on Monday, when advance parties will arrive, New Delhi radio said to-day. The main forces will follow on Tuesday.
General MacArthur has ordered the Japanese to meet the Allied naval forces 20 miles off the coast and lead them into Kagashima Bay, in the south of the island.
MacArthur had landed 10 hours after 7500 men of the 11th Airborne Division had begun mass occupa- tion landings at Atsugi, and 10,000 Marines and sailors swarmed ashore inside Tokyo Bay to take over the Kokosuka naval base. Japanese and American photo- graphers recorded the general's arrival as ruler of the country.
On Sunday the general will sign for the Allied Powers at the sur- render ceremony in the battleship Missouri
SALUTE-AND BOW
Meanwhile, the 11th Airborne men, making the trip in Japanese trucks, had gone east of Atsugi to enter Yokohama, the port city of Tokyo. The entry was unop- posed and smoothly executed.
Japanese officers along the road to Yokohama saluted smartly as elements of the divi- sion rode by. One Japanese lieutenant first saluted, then bowed
The paratroopers will seize the Emperor's summer palace
ordersi
General MacArthur's were explicit: Land at dawn. clear a three-mile area of all Japanese and take possession of the Emperor's palace."
The sun was just rising over
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