Late News CHINESE PLAN OF OCCUPATION

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 278, 23 August 1945, Page 8

Late News CHINESE PLAN OF OCCUPATION

Instructions Given To Japanese (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received .August 23, 1.35 a.tn.) NEAA' YORK. August 22. The signing of Japan's formal surrender to China which will take place hi Nanking, is not expected till after tlib signing of the general surrender in Toitio, says the Chungking correspondent of the Associated Press. Chinese troops might be flown into Nanking. Shanghai, Peiping and Tientsin even before the formal surrender. Meanwhile, the Japanese envoys have conferred al Chihkinng with General Ho A'iug-chin. Commander 7 of the Chinese Field Forces, who handed the envoys a memorandum specifying the areas the Chinese would occupy. General Pnh AVei-ehang has been appointed to take over Hong Kong, Canton, the Luichow Peninsula and Hainan Island. The Chinese also have listed the Inner Mongolian provinces of Jehol, Chahar and Suiyuan, Formosa, and French ludo-China, north of the Sixteenth degree of latitude. This indirectly confirms reports that the British will laud in southern IndoChina. Haul in Manchuria. The Japanese Kwantuug Army formally .surrendered at Ilarbiu to Major-Gen-eral Shelakhov, agency correspondents in Moscow report. More than 250,000 Japanese have been taken prisoner in Manchuria, and others are still coming in in thousands. ■ The Red Army is pushing on into the southern areas of Sakhalin and driving southward from the captured ports iu Korea. Scattered remnants of the Japanese armies which have refused to surrender or were out of touch with their group headquarters in Manchuria are harassing the Soviet communications and terrorizing Chinese villages. They are the counterpart of the Nazi AA’erewolves, and are called “steppe wolves” by the Russians. Specially-formed highly mobile Soviet forces are engaged in hunting down these formations, who sometimes are disguised as Chinese civilians or put on Russian uniforms. ’ A message from Rangoon states that while French forces wait in Ceylon to lead the re-occupation forces into IndoChina under General Roger Blaizot, the Dutch are similarly ready to send delegations with the British forces, who will shoulder most of the burdens, to reoccupy the Netherlands East Indies. The announcement in Manila that the British and Australian forces will reoccupy all the islands south of the Philippines indicates that Admiral Mountbatten’s command has been extended to include Java and the other islands south to Timor.