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Show a. -- -v- . - f .r PAGE 8 nmj&STC-"" SUNDAY HrJlALD . SUNDAY,, AUGUST 13, .1945 Stakes for Which Japan Gamb!ed---and Lost R eteritioh of Emperor Hirphitb May Prove Be Highly Useful to Allies In Running Japan BY R. TL SltACKFOfeD ' United ;f rets. Staff; Correspondent WACWTwnfnM a..' ii VrtPi If Emperor 'Hirohito keeps his thjone-f-Ajf seems possible it will be because the Allies believe a .peaceful Japanese government can be establishd with hi help. .American officials, said' today that ' such 'a ' decision would not mean a blank check for the emperor. em-peror. His position probably will be carefully defined by the Allies and somewhat circumscribed. Retention of the emperor would uvuiuun iot us. -- There Is no tendency la any official circle to think that ; the war can be ended, only by retalmnc the emperor. On the contarary, ; the reasoning Is that 'his notion will be In the. Anted self interests It Is believed that the Allies can use him in' simplify ins the , actual surrender and In helping help-ing to stabilise postwar Japan. Ousting . May . Do Harm If the Allies should decide to oust the emperor, there is grave HtfittKf amftnty manv Alliorl rffifaw .about the possible internal reaction reac-tion in Japan. Most of American experts on Japan furthermore, are extremely doubtful that some of the Japanese army elements especially those on the Asiatic mainland would obey a surrender surren-der order from anyone less than the emoeror One possibility is that the Allies may reject Hirohito but agree to a continuation of the institution of . 1 1 11 , 1 eraperorsnip wnn some i initiations. initia-tions. . In such an event, the throne, would go to the 13-year old heir apparent Crown Prince Kotatehi Akihito Japan will not receive a simple "okay" on her offer to accept the Potsdam unconditional surrender terms with the understanding that they do not prejudice "the pre rogatives" of the emperor. The big powers are not going to place themselves in a position oz ac cepting Japanese terms. The ac ceptance must come from Japan acceptance of the Allied terms. Controversial Topic By raising the emperor ques tion, Japan hit upon one of the most controversial topics Invoiv ing the Pacific war. Japan's plea for Hirohito, the spectacled little' man who rides a white horse, probably will be answered by a restatement re-statement of the Potsdam unconditional un-conditional surrender ultimatum ulti-matum touched up with a reminder re-minder that it made no demand de-mand that the emperor be dethroned. de-throned. President Truman has submit ted to our AUies in the Pacific war the United States point of view on Japan s agreement to sur render provided Hirohito retains his sovereign status. Four great nations are consider ing Japan's surrender offer. They are committee to act together and not separately in -dealing with the common foe. Their last-chance ultimatum to Japan, drafted in Potsdam, significantly warned the Japs that surrender must be unconditional. un-conditional. Equally significantly, it implied that a Japanese "gov ernment would function even after surrender without demanding demand-ing that the emperor must eo. That is the straw at which the Japanese now are grasping. No Official Statement-There Statement-There has been no official statement from any of the four capitals on Hirohito's future status. But here are unofficial in Umatlons of their various points til all the little men are dead or gone. The 'Chinese government in Chungking issued a statement to the army and tne people to carry on the war until Japan's: surrender is officially announced. of view: MOSCOW: The 'government . controlled radio broadcast a statement that "unconditional . surrender Is unconditional surrender;, there can be no plainer words." That implies a Russion Intention to refuse to give Japan, assurances of any kind before she quits. , CHUNGKING: The Central Daily News, official organ of the national government, which reflects re-flects the views of Chiang Kai-shek, Kai-shek, said: "Japan offered the kind of unconditional surrender which we cannot accept we are confident that America, Britain and the Soviet Union are unable to accept it, either. LONDON: Usually well Informed Inform-ed sources .indicated that the Brit ish government would be agree able to continuing Hirohito on the thrpne if that were satisfactory to the United States. WASHINGTON: United States propaganda in seeking to break Japans war spirit has avoided with obvious intent any challenge to the imperial system of government govern-ment in Japan and any threat to the person or future of Hirohito. It is understood that this govern ment has felt that Hirohito or the imperial system could be useful in the future government and civilization of the Japanese peo pie. Fighting Continues Gen. Douglas MacArthur's far eastern air force, based on Oki nawa, proceeded with routine plans to bomb unidentified Japa nese targets today. Russia's Red banner army in eastern Asia still is boring into Japanese Man churian and Korean defenses. The Soviet Union is in the war to oust Japan from the mainland of Asia and is likely to keep plugging un Manila Wakes Up With Hangover to Find War Still On By DON CASWELL United Press War Correspondent MANILA, Aug. 11 (U.R) Man ila wakened with a mild hangover hang-over today and found the war still was going full blast. After last night's brief revelry, revel-ry, the Far Eastern airforce grimly continued its bombing and strafing today attacking enemy targets wherever they cduld be found. The 38th Infantry division fighting east of Manila has killed 143 Japanese since Friday after noon,, bringing its Luzon total to 28,000. The 38th, surrender or no surrender, sur-render, was hoping to have an other good day today and push closer to the 30,000 mark. Inside Manila itself the G. I.'s settled down to find out whether they were going home, or must continue on to Tokyo. Five hundred soldiers waited outside Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters and cheered this morning when he came out. "I hope from the bottom of my heart that this is the end of the war," MacArthur said, i'l hope we can all be home very soon." Everybody tried to do their regular jobs today, but their hearts weren't in their work. Every news broadcast caused a citywide work recess, and Man ila s liny newspapers squander ed many weeks of precious news print stocks printing endless ex tras which were grabbed as soon as they hit the streets. This Is a hair-trigger arm-' arm-' Istlce at best. Japan has hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of troops, active or Isolated, on the mainland or Asia and on the by -passed islands of the southern Pacific Their leaders lead-ers down to company officers are' headstrong militarists. " Even though the emperor himself ordered cease fire, some of those wild men might want to go down fighting. At Cairo and Potsdam the future fut-ure of Japan was agreed upon and made public in general terms. 1. A Japanese government will continue to function, unlike the Situation in Germany where a na tion was so mauled that no gov ernment remained or would have been permitted to remain wnen ine Allies iook over. Occupy Designated Zones 2. Allied troops win occupy designated places in -Japan to oversee such conditions as may be imposed on v the defeated en emy.. But there.was no suggestion of total occupation as has taken place in Germany. 3. Japan must withdraw to her four major home islands and such other, small and insigificant. islands as may- subsequently be allotted to her. ' 4. Manchuria, Korea, part of China, French Indo-Chlna, Thailand, Thai-land, Malaya, the Netherlands East Indies all these shall be taken away from Japan. That means that they must be occupied, reorganized and either made independent in-dependent or be allotted in some way as trusted spoils ot war. 5. The 1,000,000 Japanese troops in the by-passed islands must be rounded up and disposed of. .J "T . ) U U 1 Indian Ocean -fJ0g J J .USTRALI Arctic Oceqi X TV J' l IVSfoeiYc Ocean pANAmMJ EW ZEALAND The fantastic dream of empire? which became a nightmare for Japan is strikingly portrayed on the map above. Encompassed within the rays of the Rising Sun are the minimum territories tot which the Japanese gambled when they struck at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941. They blatantly declared then that their minimum price of victory would be sovereignty, with occupancy or con- trot, over China. India, Malaya, the, East Indies, Australia. New Zealand, Western South America, Central America, including the Panama Canal, most of Mexico. Western United States and Canada. Alaska aod Asiatic Russia, along with all Intermediate territories. Chinese Keep Up Fighting By 'ALBERT RA VENHOLT Unted Press Staff Correspondent CHUNGKING: Aus. 11 f (U.R) China ordered her armies and peoples to fight on against the Japanese today and, through a government newspaper, called the enemy's peace offer unacceptable, The Central Dally News, organ 01 me vmang tiai-anex govern ment, said the Japanese had of fered a "kind of conditional sur render which we cannot accept1 "We ale' confident that Amer ica. Britain and the Soviet union wil be unable to accept it, too," w newspaper saia. The newspaper r obviously referred re-ferred to the J a ds nese demand mat emperor Hironno's sov ereignty be respected. China un officially has indicated that she will ask that Hirohito be listed as one of the Japanese war crim inrls. iniormea unungKing sources said they had learned that Em peror Hirohito had created peace committee of 21 in Tokyo, including his brothers. Prince Chichlbu and Takamatsu, Hideki Tojo and several other former premiers, and the present premier and ministers of war. navy and I m f mm I foreign axiarrs. , Jap JurrenfJcnng to nair ah uraumg ,-- iiVf t- "liT? I WASHINGTON, Augf llUlR) Legislation tolialt the drafting of men forthe armed' services t was being held in readiness today by. the house military aaalrs.com- . mittee members for introduction ' . as soon as Japan is defeated and . congress returns. They said there was no reason :-to :-to continue inductions after the Japanese surrender as it would mean only additional tax burdens. Greenwich is e borough of Lon- don, England. f (taitsnouiiQb mm " NEW YORK,; Aug. 11 (U.R) Japan's Emperor Hirohito is no "harmless jerk who live like a stuffed shirt: in a palace" but "an extremely Willful and competent com-petent man the most dangerous man in the world" according to John Williams, for 20 years an Australian correspondent in the far east. Unless Americans realize this, Williams said in an article in the October issue of True magazine, another bloody war is inevitable, Williams said the emperor whom tne Japanese hoped to keep onj m At -1 It- : 1 we unone uespiie surrender, nas been responsible for every important im-portant decision of the' Japanese nation. The policies and acts .of the Japanese war criminals could never have beenj carried out without with-out the emperor's consent, Williams Wil-liams said. Navy Stops Work On 95 Worships . WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (U.R) The navy today decided to stop work on 95 warships now under construction. It Said the stoppage will save approximately $1,200,-000,000. $1,200,-000,000. I In addition th navy willcancel orders for construction of 160 district craft and smaller auxiliaries, auxili-aries, which ha been scheduled but not started. QUAKE REPORTED NEW YORK, ;Aug. 11 (U.R) A fairly severe earthquake, believed centered some 290 miles away in Central America was recorded on Fordham university seismographs last night. ' Hoover Describes New British Government As A Creeping Socialism7; Warns United States By BEN COOK United Press Staff Correspondent LONG BEACH, Cal., Aug. 11 (U.R) Former President Herbert Hoover todalr described Britain's new Labor government as "A creeping socialism," a part of a tide of "collectivism sweeping ov er Europe." He called upon America to guard against its further spread. The alternative, he implied, is to be branded as "The .generation who surrendered the heritage of America." The only living ex-president, spoke before thousands of fellow- Iowans in Bixby park at the annual an-nual Iowa picnic one day after France Wants to Sit In On Japs' Surrender Parley PARIS, Aug. 11 (U.R) Reliable sources told the United Press yesterday yes-terday that the French government govern-ment is likely to request French participation in negotiations for final Japanese capitulation. The request would be based on France's great interests in Indo-China Indo-China and on the fact that Gen. Charles DeGaulle's free French committee declared war against Japan the day after Pearl Harbor. WASHINGTON. Aug. 11 (U.R) French Ambassador Henri Bonnet Bon-net today presented to Secretary Secre-tary of State James F. Byrnes a French request to be associated with the four powers in the act of signing surrender terms with Japan. 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