... IN MANILA the meeting in the city hall between general macarthur's officers and the Japanese surrender delegation, to discuss THE TERMS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FORMAL SURRENDER The Emperor of Japan s personal representative, with a party of fifteen other Japanese officers and officials, arrived in Manila on August 19. Only six of them were admitted to the preliminary talks these are seen in ...

... NOW that Lend-Lease has come to such a dramatic conclusion and this country will be compelled more than ever to cut down her imports, and there fore rely more and more on home-grown foodstuffs, the numbers and employment of enemy prisoners of war is of the first importance. To-dav there are 207,000 German prisoners of yar and 153,000 Italian prisoners of war in Great Britain. Of these, 50,000 ...

... WHERE THE GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS WILL BE HOUSED-- THE CELL BLOCK IN THE NUREMBERG PRISON WHICH WILL HOLD THE MORE PROMINENT OF THE NAZIS AS THEY AWAIT TRIAL. At the end is a boarded-up section where important prisoners will be kept The first list of twenty-four major war criminals has been announced it is headed by Goering, Hess and Ribbentrop. Their trial, by a special International Military ...

... At last the Allied Council has been set up in Vienna, and the Military Govern ment of Austria has been arranged. In a similar way to Germany, four zones have been allotted to the four Powers-- the U.S.S.R., the U.S.A., Great Britain and France, with a General Control Council. The four military commissioners are Marshal Koniev for Russia. General Mark Clark for U.S.A., General McCreery for ...

... rrom time to time schemes have been put forward for floating aerodromes, on which trans-ocean air liners could alight and refuel, or repair, as occasion required. Some of them were very elaborate, but none came into being during the war. Experi ments were made, however, on a lesser scale with what might be termed floating airstrips. These were employed in comparatively calm waters and were ...

... ninn UHU When Radar was first directed against enemy aircraft attacking this country, it had to deal with aircraft coming in at what one would describe as the normal angle. Effective contacts and workings would take place at, say, an angle of 45 degrees. Then, later, the enemy took to coming in at a very low angle. This meant an adaptation of equip ment. A system of towers was placed, usually ...

... The place of the official surrender of Japan to the Allied Nations was the sheet of water known as Tokyo Bay It is almost entirely land-locked, entrance to it being obtained through the narrow Uraga Strait. The great Allied fleet of 112 warships, which had previously been sheltering in Saga mi Bay moved into Tokyo Bay to the north lay the long waterfront of the Japanese capital. In the centre ...

... Britain's great southern port is once more presenting the pre-war spectacle of great ships gliding up Southampton Water or setting southwards on their trans-ocean voyages. The Queen Elizabeth, biggest and longest of all existing ships, and the Queen Mary have both been using Southampton as an embarkation port for tens of thousands of American troops. The Queen Mary, with her 81,235 tonnage, is ...

... The idea of a Fleet Train is not new but the principle, as announced by Mr. Churchill in the House of Commons on September 28 1944, was extended to give the British Fleet complete mobility and to enable it to operate continuously in distant waters on a scale that has not been attempted since the advent of steam, a design that differs greatly from existing ideas whereby a fleet returns to shore ...

... Allied Military Government units in Germany have a tough job to do. They are engaged on the reorganisation of local governments and police combing out Nazi officials and supervising those Nazis whom circumstances made it necessary to retain for the time being supplying food and seeing to its production listing and returning to the rightful owners looted works of art reorganisation of public ...

... , MAGNET HOUSE, KINGSWAY, LONDON, W.C.2 SPITFIRE 1945 (4 LI NES) Simply by pressing a button a British rescue craft. Think of the heightened fighter pilot gets immediate radio skill and new experience in radio- contact with base, command, flight or electronics G.E.C. will bring to sea rescue. This automatic 'four-line the making of the future's finest press-button radio-telephone was Radio and ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. President Truman Rises to the Occasion.-- It is never easy to follow a star-- in any sense of the term. It must warm many a heart to observe with what vision, with what breadth and bigness of mind, and with what strength and nobility President Truman is following Roosevelt-- and his own particular star. He has lately put out some very important documents and ...