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Singapore Hits Back

... island. The Japanese themselves admitted that General Yamashita's call on the British, Australian, Indian and Chinese forces to surrender had been defiantly ignored. TOKIO CLAIMS After Gen. Yamashita's ultimatum had been flung back in his teeth, the enemy ...

Published: Friday 13 February 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 949 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ENEMY STORY OF SURRENDER

... themselves against bombs and shells. The British and Japanese Commanders-in-Chief, Lieut.-General Percival and Lieut.-General Yamashita, met in the Ford motor plant at the foot of Bukit Timah Hill and signed the surrender documents. “Thus the last and most ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 230 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Surrender Demand, Says Berlin

... Surrender Demand, Says Berlin Berlin. Thursday Lieut Gen. Yamashita. Commander-in-Chlef of the Japanese Forces in Malaya has s;nt an ultimatum exp.ring at 10 o'clock this morning to the British Forces encircled in the fortress in the northern part of ...

Published: Thursday 12 February 1942
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 206 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

last talk before surrender

... Lieut. General Yamashita | enemy. which preceded the surren- ; - t h e North-Western front, der of Singapore is given by | Soviet cavalry liberated forty the Japanese Dome! Agency. Continued from inhabited localities from Ger- Yamashita began the inter- ...

Published: Tuesday 17 February 1942
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1285 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

One week after the Japanese had stormed the island, fighting at Singapore ceased yesterday at 3.30 p.m. (10 p.m ..

... local time yesterday a fternoon. Following a meeting between him and the Japanese Commander-in- Chief, Lieutenant - General Yamashita, documents of surrender were signed in the Ford motor plant at the foot of Timah Hill at 7 p.m. Hostilities ceased three ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1942
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 606 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Invitation

... Allied fighters are on their way to the Singapore area. In the background, Russia and China lie like vast shadows. Tomozuki Yamashita is a worried man because his side is being strafed from our secret airfields. But there are more airfields building and more ...

Published: Monday 09 February 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 260 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FATE OF SINGAPORE HANGS IN BALANCE

... southwards after pillbox defences had been smashed with flame-throwers and grenades. A Tokio newspaper declared that Gen. Yamashita, the Japanese C.-in-C. in Malaya, had called upon Gen. Percival, the British commander, to surrender, while planes were ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 737 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TOKIO STORY OF LAST DAY

... themselves against bombs and shells. The British and Japanese Commanders-in-Chief, Lieut.-General Percival and Lieut.-General Yamashita, met in the Ford Motor plant at the foot of Bukit Timah hill,” he adds, and signed the surrender documents.” Thus ” the last ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1942
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 257 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PRISONERS IN SINGAPORE

... territory , according to the correspondent at Singapore o £ the Tokio newspaper JVichi Nichi . Lieut .-General Tomoyuki Yamashita , Commander of the Japanese forces in Malaya , will be head of the new military administration of thp whnip Peninsula . ENEMY ...

Published: Friday 20 February 1942
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 383 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AMBITIOUS JAPANESE CLAIMS

... showered tens of thousands of leaflets over Singapore demanding surrender. The demand was made by Lieut-General Obufumi Yamashita, Commander-In-Chief of the Japanese resumption of large-scale operations against the Dutch East Indies is indicated by the ...

Published: Tuesday 10 February 1942
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Tokio Version

... themselves against bombs and shells. The British and Japanese Commanders-in-Chief. Lieut.-General Percival and Lieut ; -General Yamashita, met in the Ford motor plant at the foot of Bukit Timah Hilt and signed the surrender documents. “Thus the last and most ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 264 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SINGAPORE LOSSES Japs Claim .>>.ooo Prisoners From THE MILITARY MAN V O official figures are yet available ..

... success, but it would be unwise to hold out hopes that the numbers which escaped from Singapore are considerable. General Yamashita, the Jap Commander who negotiated the surrender of the island, is reported to have undertaken to be responsible for the safety ...

Published: Tuesday 17 February 1942
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 301 | Page: 5 | Tags: none