Vor der Unterzeichnung der Kapitulation
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L’Aube (August 19, 1945)
Tokio annonce le départ de ses plénipotentiaires
Les négociations pour la reddition commenceront demain à Manille
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Prévisions américaines rassurantes –
Guerre cosmique avec bombardiers sans pilotes et bombes atomiques volantes
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U.S. State Department (August 19, 1945)
701.9454/8-1945: Telegram
The Minister in Switzerland to the Secretary of State
Bern, August 19, 1945 — noon
[Received 12:36 p.m.]
3929
In note dated August 17, 1945 Federal Political Department informs Legation that Japanese Government has replied as follows through Japanese Legation, Bern, to request contained Department’s 2535, August 14 and forwarded to Japanese Government by Swiss.
The Government of Japan regrets that it is unable to comply with the demands that the Government of the United States of America has addressed to it on August 15 last by the intermediary of the Government of Switzerland concerning property and archives, since they do not correspond to any provision of the declaration of Potsdam accepted by the Government of Japan.
Repeated London, Moscow, Chungking.
HARRISON
The Pittsburgh Press (August 19, 1945)
Japan’s peace envoys on way to MacArthur
13 Mikado delegates make flight to hear surrender terms
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18 airmen killed as B-29s collide
2 others injured and one is missing
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Plane lost in 1943; bodies of 10 found
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (UP) – The bodies of 10 Air Force men and the wreckage of a B-17 Army plane which had been buried on primitive Cloud Peak of the Wyoming Rockies for two years, were identified today.
The bodies and the demolished plane were all that were left of a four-engined bomber that took off from Pendleton, Oregon, June 28, 1943.
The victims included Lt. Charles H. Suppes of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.