| In Occupied Japan... General Hideki Tojo, former prime
minister (October 1941 to July 1944), attempts suicide when American
troops arrived at his house to arrest him, on General MacArthur's
instructions, as a war criminal. Though shooting himself with a revolver
below the heart, the wound is not fatal, and after blood transfusions
and penicillin administration at the American hospital at Yokahama his
condition improves.
In French Indochina... The capital, Hanoi, is occupied by
Chinese troops under an agreement for the joint temporary occupation of
the territory by Chinese and South-East Asian Command forces, pending
the resumption of French Control.
From London... Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, the Deputy
Supreme Commander of SHAEF until its dissolution, is promoted to the
rank of Marshal of the RAF.
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