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have been sent to India: their lives are guaranteed by the British Government. Yamashita: I should like to know ..

... Government. Yamashita: I should like to know whether you wish to surrender or not. If you desire to surrender I shall insist upon unconditional capitulation. What is your reply, yes or no? Percival: Could you give me time until tomorrow? Yamashita: Till tomorrow ...

Published: Tuesday 17 February 1942
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Japan Takes Huge Oil Centre

... Commander-in-Chief. and Lieut.-General Yamashita, Japanese Commander-in-Chief, when the surrender of Singapore was arranged. The meeting lasted 49 minutes. - I will only accept an unconditional surrender. said General Yamashita at the outset. Have any Japanese ...

Published: Tuesday 17 February 1942
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 304 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

No Prisoners

... Perctval: Will you give until to-morrow morning? Yamashita: To-morrow? I cannot wait, and the Japanese forces will have to attack to-night. Perclval: How about waiting until 11.30 p.m. Tokyo time (3.30 p.m. Yamashita: that is to be the case the Japanese forces ...

Japs Talk of Using

... harbour and the poatiblUtiea entry through then. Percival and Yamashita Tokio Account of Surrender Parley J I H E meeting between Lieut-General Percival, the British G.0.C., and Lieut.-Ueneral Yamashita. Japanese Commander-in-Cbiet. when the surrender of Singapore ...

Published: Tuesday 17 February 1942
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 579 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Premier to Make Statement On Escape of Warships

... Generals Percival and Yamashita: Yamashita: I wish short and exact replies. I shall be satisfied only with unconditional surrender. Have any Japanese soldiers been taken prisoner by the British? . . No. Not a single soldier. _ — Yamashita: What about the __ ...

Published: Tuesday 17 February 1942
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 402 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

OVER 55,000

... claim that there are about 1.000.000 people still in Singapore City, among them 120 English women and children. General Yamashita, the Japanese Commander, who negotiated the surrender of the island, has, according to Tokio, undertaken to be responsible ...

Published: Tuesday 17 February 1942
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 88 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AMMUNITION, WATER,

... •• Rely on Perrival: Will you give until was agreed that Lieut-General to-morrow morning? Percival and the Governor. Sir Yamashita: To-morrow? I can- Shenton Thomas, should present not wait, and the Japanese forces themselves at the enemy headwill have ...

Published: Tuesday 17 February 1942
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 521 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RELY ON US. SAY JAPS

... RELY US. SAY JAPS Lieut. - General Tomoyuki Yamashita, dict-alirig Japanese terms for the surrender of Singapore at the minutes' meeting with Lfeut.-General A. E. Percival Inst night, peremptorily accepted lull responsibility for the lives of the British ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1942
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 71 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TANKS ENTER CITY

... newspaper accou of the surrender conferen says that General Percival at General Yamashita met in sm&ll room in a factory fro which burning Singapore cou be seen. General Yamashita, aft ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1942
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 288 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

STAYED AT JOBS AS CITY FELL

... 'than 24 hours. || MMA A AVV A For ,hp 111 111 H been drink four hours. ill CI CsC*l Tokyo says that Lieutenant-General Yamashita. the Japanese FOLLOWING swiftly on the fall of Singapore comes the | ihe* 600W news that Japanese forces are concentrating ...

Published: Tuesday 17 February 1942
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 535 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NON. BUNION !

... NON. ! THE Dornei correspondant at Singapore reports that Lieut.-Gen. Tomoysiti Yamashita, dictating Japanese terms for the surrander of Singapore, had a 40-minutes misting with Lieut.-Gen. Percival last night, and accepted full responsibility for the ...

Published: Monday 16 February 1942
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 65 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

force in Singapore had surrendered unconditionally at 12.30 p.m. on February IS (8.5. T.) was made by Tokio : it

... made by Tokio : it was added that the British and Japanese commanders-in-ohief, Lieut.-General Percival and Lieut.-General Yamashita, signed the surrender documents at the foot of Bukit Timah. One thousand armed British soldiers are remaining in the city ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1942
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 143 | Page: 5 | Tags: none