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THE CHINA MAIL. SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1947,
TANAKA'S ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLES ON THE ISLAND
Winding-Up Application Allegations
Major-General Tanaka Ryosaburo yesterday af- -|
firmed in his evidence-in-chief before No. 5
War Crimes Court that he was the higt: American
ranking Japanese officer who addressed civil- lans gathered from the Repulse Bay Hotel out- side "Eucliff" on Dec. 23, 1941, shortly after, the hotel, had been surrendered to the Japanese.
Attaches
Tanaka, said he asked the Repulse Bay Hotel guests Released
command
east of Deep Water Bay that an officer had been sent ahead and had reported something that looked like a hotel.
Orders Attack
what sort of people they were, if they were neutral nationals and what they were doing in a fighting area. He remembered then having begun to address the group on the subject of After further submis-
"Greater East Asia" but as his interpreter sions had been made by
proved unequal to the task he gave up the idea. Counsel yesterday, judg- Tanaka, who la charged with port that some prisoners had ment, was reserved by responsibility for atrocities been taken. At the same time he His Lordship the Chief committed by troops under his received a report from the bat Justice. Sir Henry Black area, at Lyemun and Shouron tion of the two roads to the In the Repulse Bay talion commander at the junc- all, in the case in which Hill, spent more than half a an application is being day yesterdty explaining to the made for the winding up Hong Kong Island,
Court, gathered about maps of the route ni the King Wan Com-that he had taken after his pany, Limited.
troops had landed at points to the west of Shaukiwan and
At 17.30 hours, after having The Hon. Mr. Lea d'Almada | west of the Lyemun Fort area sent back the prisoners taken to Castro instructed by Mr. 10 p.m. on the night of Dec. E.SC. Brooks in appearing for 18, 1941.
a divisional POW Camp to the the Petitioner, Tang Shi Woon.
east Wong Nei. Cheong Gap He said that hoxide the Tana. Mr. R. A. Bernacchi instruct-ka Unit there landed with him orders to the third battalion to under gendarme escort, he gave ed by Mr. D. L. Strellet i ap-on anti-tank unit, a mountain attack Repulse Bay Hotel along pearing on behalf of share. į artillery unit, one battalion of
the road from west to east. An- holders in favour of the wind- mountain gun regiment, one other rear guard company that ing up.
battalion of a mortar division, had caught up with him he sent The respondent, Tong Po part of the divisional com- to capture Brick Hill, Chun, in reurmented by Mr.munications unit, A Amoke At midnight on the 22nd he Charles Loseliv. instructel hysereen unit, a medical unit and recieved a report that "Eucliff" Mr. H. G. Lee,
a gemarmerie unit. All these had been taken and units,
shortly to total strength of after a report came in that com In the course of his submis. about 4,000, had completed land- sions, Mr. Lonely said that ru- ing operations by the morningnications with the third bat-
tallon had been cut. spondent was desirous of tak-of Dec. 19.
He ad- vanced himself towards ing action against his brothers
third battalion' for repayment of their debts
headquarters and and that an order for "ompul.
found that it had moved across sory winding up might prove
the, rond. detrimentul to the spets of the
company.
any praper
At 7 a.m. the following day he came into "Eucliff" and, es- tablished himself in a garage. He ordered the second battalion to advance to the Golf Course. He had received a report about three hours earlier that Brick Hill had been taken at midnight Dec. 22/23.
The general plan, he said. was to arrive in the area of Victoria Peak and High West at 0700 hours on the 19th, The Tanaka Unit had orders to dea- Mr. Lonely said respondent troy the British resistance at was not opposing
Shaukiwan and advance to winding
the Violet Hill by 0300 carried by up
hours on necessary majority. if unne the 19th and to High West by companied hv suspicion
0700 hours. Part of the unit fraud.
was to capture Boa Vista and guard the left flank of the di- vision. The second battalion of He spoke to the civilians for the unit, he said, panned the about 15 minutes. He then left east foot of Mount Parker and with all his men,, he claimed. north of Boa Vista on the way
who numbered -some 14 or 15. to Violet Hill and Stanley Gap. and advanced westward to the None of the Battlion passed road junction. He was dełnyed north of Mount Parker to Quar.there a considerable time white
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Mr Leo d'Almadin, in his re ply, soid that there was no dia. sipation of the assets of the Company. Very serious charges had been made by the respon- tent which, said Mr. d'Almada, must be investigated.
Mr. d'Almada submitted that the only reason why respondenty Bay. objected to the winding up was because he felt that he might lone face thereby.
Mr. d'Almada further submit. ted that if the order applied for was not made, it would only lead to further trouble between the four brothers, who were al rendy at loggerheads and in open hostility.
Giving an account of his own movements, Tanaka told of having made his way through the hills with Headquarters Unit of 19 men, reaching the mountain overlooking Repulse Bay Hotel at 10 a.m. on the 20ths. There was already fight ing going on in the he said.
vicinity,
land mines were being removed, After 2 p.m. he ordered the second battalion of the Tanaka This was captured at sundown Butni to attack Bennets Hill. on the 23rd in a bayonet attack.
On Dec. 24 his third bat- tallon was engaged in aiding | an anti-tank battalion to pass through to Stanley. He return ed to the Golf Course in the In conclusion, Mr. d'Almada The firing increased in Inten-evening. On the following day submitted that there would besity and there was home
his second battalion was hold- no danger to the assets of the tillery fre. He
ing a line from Bennets ordered
HI Company because they would be second hattallon, to attack thegimento! headquarters had been #north-eastward and his re. held by the Receiver.
"Overbays" area, Between 1830 established at the Golf Course. Judgment was then reserved. and 1400 hours he received a re-
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Tanaka said the heaviest re- sjatance had been encountered at the five-road junelion at Wong Net Cheong Gap, which his troops had to skirt before moving eastward into the Deep Water Bay area and which was strongly defended. The pill-box on top of Shouson Hill had been captured at midnight, Dec. 19/20 by a platoon of some 25
men.
For the landing at Shaukiwan and to the west of Lyamun Fort his troops had concentrated on the enatward tip of the penin- sula just north of Lyemun at Sam Ka Taun and Ma Yan Tong, coastal points to the west of Devil's Peak,
His regiment had taken a total of about 100 prisoners, Tanaka sald. a batch of 30 on Dec. 20 and 70 more between
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"A" MESS DINNER
Last night "Omeets Mess, H.Q. Land Forces held a dinner party, at, which the quests: of honous were Bit Mark” Yoing. La Gen. 11. C. H. Robärtain; and Kaj.
Today, fieneral Héberlaon and
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Shanghai, Apr. 25.- Central News dispatch from Changchun said today that the Communists seized the service pistols, camerna and binoculars of Major Robert Rigg and Capt. John W. Collins when they released the Ameri after 56 days of captivity. can assistant military attachea.
The dispatch said Maj. Rigg has grown a long beard
"At- dicating their hardships in the Red handa," It said it wan learned that they spent most of Harbin but were not allowed the 55 days of captivity in
to raveni details until they had! ; reported to the United States Embassy in Nunking.
Attache.
The report said is Military Brig. Gea. Soule.
Robert panied by a staff officer of the and a party, accom.
Chinese New First Army; reached the southern Bank of the Sungari River abortly he.. fore the appointed time 12.30 pm. on Thursday and waved a white flag. Almost immediately the Communists sent the Ameri- cans across the wide Sungari from the northern bank.
The relensed men immediate- ly boardeil jeeps to Tehwel and completed the last Jap of 40 miles on a speelal train.
When a Central News corres. pondent asked what happened to Rigg's and Colling" personal belongings, the U.S. Consul- General in Changchun. Oliver Clubb, said, he "didn't see them bring them back." United Press.
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