... at 2.30 (local time) yesterday afternoon. Following a meeting between him and the Japanese commander-inchief (Lieut.-gen. Yamashita) documents of surrender were signed in the Ford motor plant at the foot of Bukit Timah hill at 7.0 p.m At about the time ...

... the Bay of Bengal have been reported. Hottest sector of the Far Eastern front at the present stage is Bataan, where Gen. Yamashita (Japanese commander-in-chief) is making a desperate effort overcome the highly valuable Allied delaying action regardless ...

... have been outweighed by the numerically overwhelming odds in man-power and material, tne Japanese commander-in-chief (Gen. Yamashita) is employing in his all-out race against time to smash resistance before the rains start in about fortnight. The invaders ...

... , pore and had conveyed, through mow-covered Alps, but as they left » *v. ..« _ There were Japanese a,r iLa eu t.-gen. Yamashita, Commander- behind cathering j HAVE not lost hope that the Roosevelt's name has been need- on during the past two in . chjef ...

... east in an effort to | * close American supply lines to Australia. —Press Association and Reuter Race Against Rains c;en. Yamashita. the Japanese '.■nander-in-chicf following a rdccessor. Gen. Homma. who was ported to have committed suicide [•realise of ...

... Australian on Tuesday 1 Gen. Mac A dalav road is north Pvu. 35 mile.' Surrender Demand £ ,hc important rail town 01 Toungoo. On Yamashita. the enemy com- t r>* nr nder-in-chief. demanded the sur- Destroyed Five Tanks ider of the United States —Filipino, . . ...

... WASHINGTON Monday. Y3 ,n a of speak, changed his wavelength at “Operations in Cyrenaica were arrangements for the dockers. Gen. Yamashita. who led the cast from the atican on behalf of on an intensive scale on Sunday. Mr. Edmund Hill-Snook, Divi- Japanese drive ...