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ISLAND RENAMED

... conference on Sundav between General Percival and the Japanese Commander, Lieut.- General Yamashita, at which the surrender of Singapore was arranged: General Yamashita : I want your replies to be brief and to the point. I will accept only an unconditional ...

Published: Tuesday 17 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 711 | Page: 2 | 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

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

ULTIMATUM IGNORED SINGAPORE STILL FIGHTING JAPS OUTSIDE CITY? CONFLICTING AXIS CLAIMS Late reports from Tokio, ..

... latest available information from British sources. A Tokio despatch to the German News Agency reports: “Lieut.- General Yamashita (C.-in-C. of the Japanese forces in Malaya) sent an ultimatum, expiring at 10 o’clock this morning; to the British forces ...

Published: Thursday 12 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 455 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

‘SINGAPORE’S 20,000 SUPERIORITY’

... north coast of the was sunk, Berlin reports. Japanese expeditionary forces in Malaya are commanded by Lt.-Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita. who went to China on the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war and was later appointed Chief Staff of expeditionary forces in ...

Published: Tuesday 10 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 453 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Pleasure and the for Self-Denial

... war chiefs who, according to official spokesmen are all air co-operation minded, have studied the recent qareer of General Yamashita, the man whose troops conquered Malaya. A general, be it noted, he was specially taken as air expert on the General Staff ...

Published: Friday 27 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 723 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

JAPANESE C-IN-C PLEDGES CARE OF 60,000 SINGAPORE TROOPS

... Tokio reports say that 120 British women and children are still in the city. A Japanese report says that Lt.-Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, dictating Japanese terms for the surrender at the-49 minute meeting with Lieut.-General A. E. Percival, Commander-in-Chief ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1942
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 746 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FRESH LANDINGS

... showered tens of thousands of leaflets over Singa- Sore demanding surrender. The emand was made by Lieut.-General Obufumi Yamashita, Commander-in- Chief of the Japanese forces in Malaya.—Reuter., Associated Press and Exchange. i-|. \mu7s ...

Published: Tuesday 10 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 872 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THIRST-OR SURRENDER

... to be seen anywhere. The morale of the troops was not cracked, but were discouraged by their helplessness. Lieut.-General Yamashita, the Japanese commander, has, according to Tokto reports, assumed all responsibility for the safety of British women and ...

Published: Tuesday 17 February 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 944 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

JAPS NOT IN SINGAPORE CITY

... Japanese have not reached Singapore city. According to a Tokio dispatch to the official German News Agency in Berlin, General Yamashita, Japanese C=in=C, sent an ultimatum expiring at 10 a.m. to day to the British forces encircled in the northern part of the ...

Published: Thursday 12 February 1942
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1080 | Page: 1 | Tags: none