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SURUENUER DEMAND

... SURUENUER DEMAND General Obufuml Yamashita, Japanese Commander-in-Chief, sent an ultimatum expiring at 4 a.m. «F. y-day. to British forces encircled in the Northern part of the city of Singapore, calling on them to surrender, says the German news agency ...

Published: Thursday 12 February 1942
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 134 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMAN CLAIM

... private. Japanese C-in-C. In Malaya The Japanese Expeditionary Forces in Malaya are com;nanded bv Lieut. - General Tomoyuki Yamashita. He went to China on the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War and was later appointed Chief of Staff of the Expeditionary Forces ...

Published: Tuesday 10 February 1942
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 542 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Japs Will be Blitzed From

... Japs Will be Blitzed From MOST worried man In the Far East to-dav. and thats saying something, is Tomozuki Yamashita, Inspector-General of Japanese Army aviation. I remember him as a fine pilot, modelling himself on monocled General Lohr Com- mander of ...

Published: Monday 09 February 1942
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 285 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NO BIG EVACUATION OF TROOPS

... conference began at G. 40 p.m. in a small room of the Ford factory buildins:, from wihch burning Singapore could seen. “General Yamashita shook hands with the British officers and said; the Japanese conditions are accepted shall accept the British proposals. ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1942
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 321 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Jap Leaflets

... fighting was raging there. ing, says a Domei Agency despatch to Tokio. The leaflet was signed by Lieut. - General . Tcmoyuki Yamashita, Japanese C.-in-C. in Malaya. The latest communique from Singapore announces that the invaders succeeded in making further ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 739 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WITHDRAWALS BY BRITISH TROOPS

... “SURRENDER CALL” STORY Berlin radio, quoting the Tokio newspaper Ni-chi Shimbun,” to-day. says Lieut,- General Obufumi Yamashita. C-in-C of the Japanese troops , attacking Singapore, has called General Pereival Thousands of leaflets, calling i for surrender ...

Published: Tuesday 10 February 1942
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 758 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FROM OUR MILITARY CORRESPONDENT

... be unwise to hold out hopes that the numbers which escaped from Singapore are considerable. MUCH EQUIPMENT LOST General Yamashita, the Jap commander, who negotiated the surrender of the island, is reported to have undertaken to responsible for the safety ...

Published: Tuesday 17 February 1942
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 823 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Island ‘Peace ’ Signed In Ford Works

... 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 RUSSIANS MEET WITH RESISTANCE ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1942
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 921 | Page: 1 | Tags: none