Delay Lands for Two Days
Japan s occupation and formal surrender are postponed at least 48 hours by typhoons Gen MacArthur announced. Surrender signing in Tokyo Bay shifts to Sept 2 from Aug 31. Initial airborne landings at Atsugi air field are now planned for Tuesday, with larger landings at Atsugi and Yokosuka moved to next Thursday. Fleet off Japan reports 100 major calibre ships as storms disrupt schedules.
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RUSSELL BRINES
ANILA
Japan
MacArthur
Tokyo Bay
Okinawa
Manila
Tokyo
TOKYO WARD
Gen. MacArthur
Pacific
Atsugi
Testifies Quisling Sent Norse To Nazi Camps
Oslo Aug 25 Maej Fridt jof Hammersen testified that Vidkun Quisling asked German occupation authorities to remove Norwegian military officers to Nazi prison camps to avoid difficulties. Hammersen said Quisling also sought a forced labor service law for Norway as the trial of Quisling for high treason neared its end. Two witnesses to come, defense mostly, as prosecutors produced German archive documents linking Quisling to the invasion planning.
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OSLO
Maej. Fridtjof Hammersen
Vidkun Quisling
Hammersen
Nikolans Von Falkenhorst
Norway
Quisling
Georg Wilhelm Mueller
Germany
Annieus Schoedt
Queen Mary to be refitted for Atlantic service
London reports that after four more Atlantic crossing tips the Royal Mail Steamship Queen Mary will be demobilized and returned to Cunard to be refitted for Atlantic service. The ship carried up to 15,500 soldiers at once, never suffered a man overboard or a death at sea, and fired no gun at enemies. It logged 600,000 miles and delivered 500,000 American soldiers and 100,000 empire troops. The vessel roamed the seas with speed and skill, avoiding submarine and air attacks, a feat the Vancouver Province notes may not be repeated.
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London
Atlantiic
Royal Mail
Cunard Line
Clyde
Sydney
Halifax
Cape
Singapore
Bombay
Trincomalee
Mary
Vancouver
Queen Mary
POW Camps Told Supplies on Way
The Japanese radio at Saigon broadcast an official order urging all prisoner of war and internment camps to expect Allied aircraft delivering supplies. The order instructs camps to display the letters P W on a yellow and black background for identification.
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NEW YORK
Saigon
federal communications commission
Randolph Churchill Won't Seek Bromley By election
London Aug 25 Randolph Churchill son of Winston Churchill withdrew his candidacy for the Bromley division by election in favor of Harold MacMillan Conservative. MacMillan, former resident minister in the Mediterranean theatre, was defeated in the general election last month.
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LONDON
Winston Churchill
Randolph
Friday
house of commons
Bromley
Harold MacMillan
Mediterranean
Japanese Cannibalism Alleged by Indian Officers
Two Indian army officers rescued from Wewak by the Australian 6th Division testified that Japanese troops in New Guinea practiced cannibalism. The officers, among 19 of 300 Indian prisoners, described the brutal act amid reports from the front.
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BRISBANE
Australia
New Guinea
Wewak
Soviet Troops Press Manchuria Surrender and Korea Invasion
Soviet forces continued to round up Japanese units in Manchuria with Tokyo reporting surrender in most sectors and about 300,000 prisoners in six days. In Korea, Russian naval and marine units advanced down the eastern coast and inland, welcomed by locals, as wartime supplies were found in warehouses.
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LONDON
Manchuria
Tokyo radio
Karafuto
Sakhalin
China
MOSCOW
Korea
Tass
Red army
Four Nippon Subs Missing
Manila reports Japanese headquarters notified General MacArthur that four submarines are missing and may have been sunk. Communications with them have failed. Submarines ordered to return to Minato and proceed surfaced with markings and night navigation lights as instructed.
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MANILA
Ger. MacArthur
Minato
Abolition of Japanese Munitions Ministry Reported
A Fukyo radio broadcast recorded by the Associated Press says Japan has abolished its munitions ministry. Munitions Minister Chikuhei Nakajim would stay in the cabinet as commerce and industry minister.
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NEW YORK
Fukyo radio
Associated Press
Chikuhei Nakajim
commerce and Industry
Son faces patricide charge at King's Bench trial
Melville Sask August 35 6 Vincente Manasterski 18 was committed for trial at the next sitting of King's Bench court on a charge of shooting and killing his 14 year old father John Manasterski at their farm home at Good Eve Sask last July 28.
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Bask
Vincente Manasterski
King’s Bench court
John Manasterski
Goodeve
Sask
New Truck Rationing Order A and B Permits Established
Ottawa August 25 Munitions Minister Howe announced a new truck rationing order to allocate new trucks by priority certificates issued by rationing officers. Effective September 1 the system replaces 1942 rules requiring direct permits from the motor vehicle controller. Class A covers public services and government supply needs among others while Class B targets delivery of petroleum and essential goods to consumers.
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OTTAWA
Howe
Kenneg
dominion
Rate Release Up RCAF Demobilization in Canada
Hamilton Ont August 25 rate of demobilization for Royal Canadian Air Force personnel will rise from 10 000 to 20 000 monthly. Lachine Quebec facilities and manning pools will be expanded to handle more dischargees as the war ends. Canadians captured at Hong Kong will not return by plane but by ship. RCAF strength fell from a wartime peak above 200 000 to about 160 000, with three prisoner transport squadrons due home by year end.
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RCAF
Gibson
Lachine
Que
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Canada
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Hong Kong
R.C.AF
BERLIN
A.P.J
ADR
DOOLITTLE
CHUNGKING
Japan
James H. Doolittle
Feiping
Chane J. Nielsen
Hycum
Utah
Robert L. Hite
Earth
Tex
Jacob D. Deahazer
Madras
Ore
OTTAWA
NEW YORK
Kyushu
Okinawa
Robert Shaplea
NBC
MELBOURNE
Australia
Reuters
Hong Kong Surrender Plan Tied to Allied Leaders
Manila report says MacArthur denied ordering Hong Kong surrender to Britain or China. BBC alleged a broadcast. observers doubt such a move would be MacArthur's to decide. Chiang Kai Shek warns Hong Kong status must be settled by negotiations, no Chinese troops to receive surrender.
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MacArthur
Japan
Hong Kong
BBC
China
Britain
LONDON
Reuters
Cecil Harcourt
Royal Navy
Harcourt
CHIANG
CHUNGRING
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chang
Predict Double Liquor Ration Due In Ontario
The Globe and Mail reports unofficial forecast of a double liquor ration for Ontario by Sept. 4 after a conference of provincial liquor commissioners from most provinces. The expected increase to 52 ounces per month in Ontario would still be below Quebec's 80 ounces.
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TORONTO
Globe and Mail
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Russia's 16-Man Delegation Arrives For Surrender Talks
A Russian delegation led by Lt-Gen Kuzma Derevyanko arrived at MacArthur's headquarters for surrender talks. The party, part of a larger 18-man contingent, comes amid Japan's capitulation negotiations and marks a key step in the Pacific theater.
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Russia
MANILA
Gen. MacArthur
Janan
Kuzma Nikolaevech Derevyanko
The Atomic Bomb 6 The Fire That Makes Plutoni Fish
Howard Blakeslee explains Hanford Washingtons plutonium production as a simple stove analogy. He describes the atomic fire using uranium fuel and neutrons as oxygen, regulated by absorbing materials like boron steel or cadmium. The piece notes these fires are universal, visible in stars, and often minute in reactors, with six kinds of atomic particles emitted.
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HOWARD BLAKESLEE
Associated Press
NEW YORK
Hanford
Wash
Washington
earth
Jap People Harakiri Before Imperial Palace
New York report notes Tokyo radio claiming Japanese people perform harakiri before the imperial palace in large numbers amid gloom over defeat and Allied occupation. Authorities hope for peaceful welcome, but observers say the spirit runs deep beyond Western understanding. Transportation, housing, and health suffer as typhoon damage compounds hardship.
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NEW YORK
Tokyo radio
imperial palace
Ameriia
federal communications commission
Japan
Tokyo
Alles
Price Controls To Continue ISLEY CONFIRMS MEAT RATIONING
Ottawa, Aug 25. Finance Minister Isley and Prices Board chairman Gordon assure price controls will stay and meat, sugar, and butter rationing continue. They warn pre mature removal would invite chaos and that victory in the Pacific begins the end of war but not economic stability. They stress Canada must curb consumption to meet global food shortages and reduce inflation risk.
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OTTAWA
Canada
Finance
Isley
Donald Gortson
prices board
CBC
Gordon
Pacific
Mr. Isley
Issey
Japan
Chiang Plans Capital In City
National government troops crossed the Yangtze and entered Nanking where Japanese surrender will be signed. Chiang Kai-Shek plans to reestablish his capital there, in Kiangsu province, 185 miles upstream from Shanghai. Communists report dozens of towns captured and forces moving toward Shanghai and Canton areas.
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Nanking
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Pukow
Chiang
Kiangsu
Shanghai
Chungking
Mao Tse-Tsune
China Times
Chu Teh
Yenan
Henan
Yangtze
Yellow river
Loyang
Lungha
Nanjing
Wensi
Anyi
Hshikaweow
Shanewhai
Saivan
Inner Mongolia
Kwangtung
Chenghsien
Peiping-Hankow
Sunghai
Tsinan
Shantung province
Tientsin-Pukow
Kong
upan
Turgkun
Canton
Loran Committed On Murder Charge
Jack Loran a 19 year old Burstall Saskatchewan man was committed for trial in king's bench court at Swift Current on a murder charge in the death of Gustave Angerman a 68 year old Burstall farmer. Angerman was shot last July 23 his body found at his home steps. A coroner's jury ruled death from rifle wounds. Loran was arrested the day after Angerman's death near Bow Island Alberta after testimony placed him in a car allegedly stolen from the farmer.
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Sask
Jack Loran
Burstall
king's bench court
Swift Current
Gustave Angerman
Burstall farmer
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Angerman
Loran
Bow Island
Alta
Fire sweeps Japanese naval engineering school near Yokosuka
Manila report says a fire started by an explosion is sweeping the Kuichima naval engineering school, about nine miles south of Yokosuka, where occupation troops will go ashore next Thursday. Communications say efforts are being made to extinguish the blaze after a blast during ammunition storage linked to surrender.
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MANILA
End of lend lease debate shocks Britain
London reports a sharp debate as the end of lend-lease stirs opinion across newspapers clubs and streets. Officials caution press adaptation while editors clash over Britain’s wartime credits and the United States role. Public sentiment divided though most agree the issue ends soon.
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LONDON
Britain
United States
Daily Express
authoritative Times
The Times
Jaws Cease Operations At Singapore Base
At Singapore base Japanese forces halted all naval activity as of Saturday. News from London reports no further operational activity at the base, signaling a halt in Singapore’s naval operations amid ongoing war activity in the region.
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JAWS
SINGAPORE BASE
LONDON
Singapore
naval base
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