Mhm We are now giving a report from baguio in northern luzon. You'll hear
john Adams and Howard Pyle reporting the formal surrender ceremonies of
General Tomoyuki Yamashita, Commander of all remaining Japanese army units
in the Philippines and Vice Admiral Dennis Ritchie. Okay ahead of the
Japanese naval delegation that came with Yamashita's from his mountain
hideout.
The ceremony is being held here in the US High Commissioner summer
residents 5,000ft up among the pine trees in the Philippines. Summer camps
for the last half hour witnesses and participants to this historic
surrender ceremony have been assembling here and the room is already quite
crowded. Early morning. Signal Corps radio man and technicians have been
setting up microphones and lines to cover the ceremonies which have been
set up and coordinated by Colonel George H. Bishop from the staff of
Lieutenant General WD. Sire laugh Westpac, commanding general and his
deputy commander, Major General Edmund H. Levy will conduct on behalf of
General Douglas Macarthur surrender ceremonies.
General Yamashita and Vice Admiral Koji have entered the room with several
members of their staff interpreters and Secretary the road time in general.
It seems a little worse for his trip. He seems to have a good night sleep
and
in a few moments we will see General wainwright and the other generals
coming in from the left.
Howard Pyle has just arrived at General wainwright and his party directly
from Yokohama. You've traveled pretty far in the last 24 hours. Right. You
are john very thrilling experience that are being privilege to see the
signing on the battleship Missouri yesterday morning perhaps along about
this hour or a little earlier. And then in the last 24 hours we have
traveled some 2400 miles by C54 tracks And as a result, we are here for
the 2nd Friday personally I feel a great faction because be the only
broadcaster or should I say press, representative, press or radio who can
say I believe that he has seen both of these ceremonies. Quite a contrast
. I might add between the Missouri to this point. High mountains of
northern Backyard, you know is 5000 ft up. Tokyo Bay is right on sea level.
Missouri yesterday was a crowded battleship. If ever I've seen one here.
We have living room, the commissioner's house rather congested on my dad.
The number of persons who must congregate here in order to to make this
picture complete official point of view. Our flight 2400 mi. We took off
from that airstrip near Yokohama yesterday about noon. We traveled to
Uwajima because of a phonetic typhoon wind that was normal And from Kojima
, we flew in here last night arriving this morning about two ethnical
field. The wainwright stood the trip beautifully and did. Lieutenant first
of all.
How do you have the official entry. General wainwright. General Star Comes
in 1st. Mhm. General percival and general wainwright
maybe standing immediately back at our microphones. The chairs being
brought back. Now these high ranking officers with the japanese
immediately opposite them at the table. First course you will. Mhm. Andra
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