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Japan Surrenders, End of War! Emperor Accepts Allied Rule M'Arthur Supreme Commander Yielding Unqualified, Says Truman Japan Told to Order End of Hostilities, Notify Allied Supreme Commander and Send Emissaries to Him MacArthur To Receive Surrender Formal Proclamation of V-J Day Awaits Signing of Those Articles - Cease-Fire Order Given to the Allied Forces By ARTHUR KROCK Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES Washington, Aug. 14 - Japan today unconditionally surrendered the hemispheric empire taken by force and held almost intact for more than two years against the rising power of the United States and its Allies in the Pacific war. The bloody dream of the Japanese military caste vanished in the text of a note to the Four Powers accepting the terms of the Potsdam Declaration of July 26, 1945, which amplified the Cairo Declaration of 1943. Like the previous items in the surrender correspondence, today's Japanese document was forwarded through the Swiss Foreign Office at Berne and the Swiss Legation in Washington. The note of total capitulation was delivered to the State Department by the Legation Charge d'Affaires at 6:10 P. M., after the third and most anxious day of waiting on Tokyo, the anxiety intensified by several premature or false reports of the finale of World War II. Orders Given to the Japanese The Department responded with a note to Tokyo through the same channel, ordering the immediate end of hostilities by the Japanese, requiring that the Supreme Allied Commander- who, the President announced, will be Gen. Douglas MacArthur - be notified of the date and hour of the order, and instructing that emissaries of Japan be sent to him at once - at the time and place selected by him - "with full information of the disposition of the Japanese forces and commanders." President Truman summoned a special press conference in the Executive offices at 7 P.M.
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