... something) is Tomozuki Yamashita, Inspector-General of Japanese Army Aviation. I remember him as a fine pilot, modelling himself on monocled General Lohr. Commander of the 4th German Air Fleet, and a hater of Britain. Yamashita has a personal gamble in ...

... * * * BUT Yamashita is worried. He will never climb the Rising Sun throne if this goes on. What goes on? Why, this day and night blitzing of his troops and aerodromes and transport . . . from where? Marylands, Fortresses, Blenheims, Dutch Fokkers are ...

... home. Just as it was landing, the bomber saw its pursuer turning away at top speed with information that would have given Yamashita the power to land us a blow over the heart. Now, that British bomber had about enough petrol left to fly twice round the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... is stated. Earlier, Tokio claimed that her troops were only eight miles away from the menaced capital, and that General Yamashita, Jap C.-in-C for Malaya, has called upon General PercivaJ to surrender. London admitted It was possible that the Japs had ...

... says, the conference began at 6.40 p.m. in a small room of a factory whence burning Singapore could be seen. General Yamashita shook hands with the British officers and said: ' If the Japanese conditions are accepted, we shall accept the British proposals ...

... to d’seuss terms of surrender, 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.” “RAGGED TOMMIES ...

... the island by the Japanese aircraft yesterday, states a Domei despatch. The leaflet, signed by Lieut.- General Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese Commander-in-Chief in Malaya reads: I advise the immediate surrender of the British forces in Singapore from the ...