SYRACUSE, N. Y., WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST 15, 1945 FINAL EDITION-
BY ARTHUR KROCK
Copyright. 1945. The New York Times
WASHINGTON. — Japan yesterday
unconditionally surrendered the hemispheric empire taken by force and held, at most,
intact for more than two years against the rising power of the United States and
its Allies in the Pacific war.
Like the previous items in the
surrender correspondence, yesterday's document was forwarded thru the
Swiss foreign office at Berne
and the Swiss legation in Washington.
The note of total capitulation was delivered to the state department by the legation
charge d'affaires at 6.10 p. m., after the third and most anxious day of waiting
on Tokio, the anxiety intensified ,by several premature or false reports of the
finale of world war 2.
The department responded with a note
to Tokio thru the same channel, ordering the immediate end of hostilities by the
Japanese, requiring that the supreme Allied commander who, the president said,
will be Gen. Douglas MacArthur, be notified of the date and hour of the order,
and instructing that emissaries of Japan be sent to him at once—at the time and
place selected by him—"with full information of the disposition of the
Japanese forces and commanders."
VJ-Day Awaits Signing
President Truman
summoned a special press conference in the executive offices at 7 p. m.
He handed to the reporters three texts.—
The first—the only one he read
aloud—was that he had received the Japanese note and
deemed it full acceptance of the Potsdam declaration, containing
no qualification whatsoever: that
arrangements for the formal signing
of the peace would be made for the "earliest possible
moment:" that the Japanese surrender would be made to Gen. Douglas
MacArthur in his capacity assupreme Allied commander-in-chief: that Allied military commanders had been instructed to cease hostilities, but that the formal proclamation of VJ-day must await the formal signing.
The text ended with the Japanese
note in which the four powers (the United States. Great
Britain. China and Russia were officially informed that the
emperor of Japan has issued an imperial rescript of
surrender, is prepared to Guarantee the necessary signatures to the
term': as prescribed by the Allies, and has instructed all his commanders
to cease active operations, to surrender all arms and to disband
all forces under their control and within their reach..
Statement by President
WASHINGTON.
(AP)—Following is the text of
President Truman's statement on the Japanese surrender:
I
have received this afternoon a message from the Japanese government in reply tothe
message forwarded to that government by the secretary of state on Aug. 11.
I deem this reply a full
acceptance of tnc Potsdam declaration which specifies the unconditional surrender
of Japan. In the reply there is no qualification.
Arrangements
are now being made for the formal signing of surrender terms at the earliest
possible moment.
Gen.
Douglas; MacArthur has been appointed the supreme Allied commander to receive the
Japanese surrender.
Great
Britain. Russia and China will be represented by high ranking officers.
Meantime,
the Allied armed forces have been ordered to suspend offensive action.
The
proclamation of VJ-day must wait upon the formal signing of the surrender terms
by Japan.
U. S.
Cruiser Lost
On
A-Bomb Trip;Casualties 100 P.C.
BY MORRIS LANDSBERG
PELELIU, Palau Islands. 'Delayed'.(AP) The 10,000 ton cruiser Indianapolis was sunk
in less than 15 minutes. presumably by a
Japanese submarine 12 minutes past midnight
July 30— and 830 crew members lost their lives in one of the navy’s worst disaster s.
She went down in the Philippine
Sea within 450 miles of Leyte after an unescorted high speed run from San Francisco.
The navy
department in Washington announced that the
Indianapolis was lost after delivering essential
atomic bomb material to Guam.
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