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Its all-embracing problems as the country itself; and the incidence
Own Story Of The War
In Europe
Philippines themselves could no
The clamour of ground and air Scommanders in Hawail and on the West Coast for deföhrive strength clamar emphastled byslerical terms by mayors, clty coutelis, and congressmen *~ would, if answered, have absorbed far inore than all United States shipping, troops, and hamediately of emergency has, under an There were known to be short-derations in the conduct of cam-oviilable anti-aircraft force then awakened kense of overwhelining us in essential Heins of supply, pulgins. One man who can do it in exlatence. HK$18.00 responsibility, resulted in confu-but in the mutter of foul and is Maighall-he is close to being: It was painfully clear that the
sin, bitensified by a swarmlyginimal types of amminution it a genius." HK$90.00 influx of contract seekers and was thought there would be little With that memory I determinat that time, be reinforced direct- well-meantag volunteers. This dificulty, provided the garrisoned that my answer should Lely by loud and sea forces. Any Uitne, however, the War Departs was given time in concentrate shart, omphalle, and based on hope of sending major reinforce- ment half achieved a gratifying these at their points of greatest reasoning in which I honestly ments into the islands had to be lovel
belleved efficiency before the out- ¦ usefulness.
No oratory, plausibly based upon such future rehabilit break of war. So far no my own The Navy Yard at Cavite,, just argument, or glittering generality ation of our Navy as would per-` ENFORCEMENT observations during the months outside Manila, tund been dam-would impress anyone eniilled to; mit it to operate anfely in the
there would justify
aged very severely by Japanese be labeled geatus by Fox Con- Philippines area.
moment One thing which has been vision nnit determination of one portion of the modest task fores
judgment, this was due to the borele
bombers on December 10.
That
there was no way of estimating the end result might be no more The question before. me was when this could be done.
postponement of disaster. brought to light by the res
man, General Marshall, Naturally con
Fleet almost unlimited in its implica- To protong the duration of the And we simply had to save the cent pounce on unoccupied he had support. He was backer which was diaposed at or near|tions, and 'my qualifications for defence while the Navy was un-
air life lav through Australia, prewar premises, is the true up by the President and by many Manila consisted mainly of small approaching it were probably der going repair, there was the New Zealand, Fiji, and, Hawell, 1941 rental value which of our ablest leaders in Congress divisions of subunurines. The those of the average hard-work-| possibility that we could ship to
With these bleak conclusions 'I prevailed al that ilme, and in key positions in the Ad-largest warship In the
the Chief of Astatie ing Army ofleer of my age. Na- the 1slands vitally needed items...
marched back to ministration. But it would have Fleet wat the heavy cruiser, turally i had pursued the mill- by submarine and blockade, run- staff. Since the
"General." I said "It will war ll has
been easy for Oeneral Marshal, Houston, at Dalbo.
tary courses of the Army's school | nèrs, and, provided we could keep been
be a long time before major re- common for
land-during 1940-41, to drift
Against a strong and sustone system. Soon after completing open the necessary line of comInforcements can go to the Philip- lords and chief tenants to
munications, something could be wines, longer than the garrison can state that prewar rental re-
attack, forces such on these could the War College in 1928, I went ecipts have been lost, and to give us the prewar rental a figure much exaggerated.
with the current, to let
things
slide in anticipation of a normal end to a brilliant military carcer
for he had earned, throughout the professional Army, a reputa- tion for brilliance. Instend bo had for many months deliberate- ly followed the hard way, deter - mined that at whatever cost to himself or to anyone elke the Army should be decently prepar- ed for the conflict which he daily. almost hourly, expected.
While most tenants have been aware that they were being gypped under the pro- visions of the Landlords and Tenants' Ordinance by these individuals they have gen-
under the im- reported to General Marshall rally been
the true precember 14, and for the first time early on Sunday morning, De- ression that war rent would be a difficult in my life talked to him for more thing to prove. It is now than two minutes at a dime. It clear that these figures are a was the fourth time I had ever matter of Government record, seen him. Without preamble or waste of time the Chief of Staff and easily obtainable for
outlined the general situation, verification of whether naval and military, in the west- rentals now being paid are ern Pacific. legal or otherwise.
In the case of Chinese open tenement flats of fair quality it becomes clear that the rent which should now be paid under the Ordinance is about $17.50 to $20 on the Kowloon side, and $40 to $50 on the Hong Kong side, with varla- tions up or down according to location.
that
have
thaf
;
or
campelang
mily when some great emergency of action?" andemanded from them other cal-
ment had given Gener! Marshall
Astntic
"All right," he said, and Wos
At the
ATLANTIC
C
OCEAN
PEARL HARASWATI
LIFE LINE TO AUSTRALIA
AIR ROUTES
SEA ROUTES --
than
hold out with any driblet assist- ance, if the enemy commits major But forces to their reduction, we must do everything for them Tho that is humanly possible. peuple of Ching of the Phillp- pinees, of the Dutch East Indies will be watching us. They may excuse follute but they will not excuse abandonment. Their trust and friendship are Important to us, Our base must be Australia, and a must start at once to ex-
it
to secure our com- inuntentions to it. In this last we dare not fall. We must take great risks and spend any amount of honey required."
In
He merely replied, "I agree with you." His tone implied that I had been given the problem is a check 10 an answer he had already rea- ched. He added, "Do your best The Navy informed him that the Pacific ficet would be unable
to save then." With that I went to work; my partner was Brigadier · for some months to participate fu majur operations.
General, later General, Brehon The Navy's
Somervell, War Department sup- carriers
remained intact because
ply and procurenieți chier: "Every they had not been at Pearl Har
dayno matter what the other bour at the time of the attack,
preoccupation-I met with him in but
supporting vessels for the
the desperate hope of uncovering carriers were so tow in numbe
some new method of approach to That great restrictions would
thuk defied solution. have to be placed
upon thele operations, Moreover, at that not but indefinitely. All the to serve as a special assistant in shipped by air, Australia was the problem
evidence Inflicated that the Jap- the offer of the Assistant Secre- base mates to the Philippines General Marshall maintained in Intensive Interest in everything ment there was no assurance that anuse intendeil
the to overrun In the case of
of War, fitry
where my duties that we could hope to establish
we did and frequently inflated a modern-style flat-
the Japanese would not quickly philippines is rapidly as possible. were quickly expanded to include and maintain, and the necessary on the
laduch a major amphibious and the problem was to deter- confidential work for the Chief of line of air communications would mensures calculated to give some therefore follow along the islands help. particularly on the moralo Hong Kong side around $90
sault upon Hawall
Stuff of the Army, Possibly
"He wurden unit citations is near the
General Marshall took perhapa figure, while even upon the mainland, and the what could now be done.
In these positions I had been intervening between that continent side.
and the Philippines.
to every organisation serving to houses abould run from S80 Navy felt
these entriers 20 minules
describe all
forced to examine world-wide to $120 per month in outer sance work and defence, except What should be our general line
If we were to use Australia as the Philippines, in promptly dl- should be reserved for reconnais this, and then abruptly asked,
military such subjects
matters and to study
a base it was mandatory that we rected the highest promotions and as the
General Mic- procure a line of communications decorations for areas of Kowloon.
mobilisation and composition or
Fleading to it. This meant that | AMhur, and he supported without These figures will be
1 thought a spennt mud, hoping
we must instantly move to save stint every idea and scheme our eye-opener to many tenants, ployment The Navy Depart-I was showing a poker face, armies, the role of air forces and navies in war, tendencies toward in the light of what they are
New Caledonia, and we had to
the safety pendence of all elements of mili- make certain of
On my desk memorandum pad, now being compelled to pay no estimate of the tate when they were, "Give me a few hours." mechanisation, and the acute Hayali Fill New Zealand, and Imagination could suggest.
expected the feet to be sufficient dismantly and characteristi- uelty of the
tary life upon the industrial cap-Australia itself.
which by accident survived, I Many of them, of course, ly repaired and strengthened to
nation. This last It rennid possible, though not nd this note, made on January know it already, but fear the take offensive action in the Pact- cally, he did not even hint at one was to me of especial importatice probable, that the Netherlands 1 1012: "I've been Inslating that long and tedious process of the area.
of the most important factors in because of my intense belief that Indies, in some respects the rich the Far East is critical and no The garrison in Hawail was so the problem: the psychologicat large-scale motorisation and 'me-
sideshows should be undertaken cst nren in the world natural the Tenancy Tribunal should they complain, and the vic-weak that there was general effects of the Philippine battle chanisation and the development resources, could be denied to the until air and ground there are in Instead wo 'forces In unprecedented Jap Invader, who would soon be satisfactory state, timisation which might be agreement between the War and upon propie in the United States of air
Navy Departments, that its air and and throughout Pacific strength would characterise sue-desperately in need of Indies oll are taking on Magnet. Gymnast, Three days later appeared: Un- etc." suffered meanwhile.
ground strength should be rein- Clearly he felt that anyone stupid cessful military forces of the to continue his offensives. The provisions of the Land-forced as rapidly as possible and enough to overlook this Con- future. On this subject I wrote Jess fils could be done short-range "At last wet gelling sure things. lords and Tenants' Ordin- should take priority over efforts sideration had no business wear-a number of studies and reports. nghter planes could not be flown on the road to Australia. The nir ing the star of a brigadier gen-Holding these convictiorts, Tito the Philippines; and fighter plan includes four pursuit groups, fance have always been very At the time of the Japanese nl-
vital to succesful and two heavy, two medium, and dral.
know that any same preparation planes were
ane light bombardment groups, clear a statutory permitted tack American army and oi I took my problem to a desk for war involved also sound planx defence.
over the forces in increase of 30%
the Philippines had assigned me in the division
In spite of for the prompt mobilisation DI
dificulties, risks, But we've got to have ships-and 1941 rentals for private pre-reached an aggregate of 30,000, the War Department then known thrustry, The years devoteil to and fierce competition for every we need them now! Tempers are mises and of 45% for busi-ncing the Philippine Scouts as "War Plans," headed by my work of this kind opened up to asset we had, a great nation such short. There are los of amateur formations integrated into the friend Brigadier General me an almost now world. During us ours, no matter how prepor-strategists on the job. I'd give with ness premises,
gid key United States Army, but with all Leonard T. Gernw,
Obviously that time I met and worker with d for war, could not afford cold- anything to be back in the Beid." money in any shape or form pillsted personnel and
of if I were to be of any service to many people whose opinions
bloodedly to him is back upon My obvious irritation was pos illegal, and only a fair in the officers native Filipines.
United States outfits provided
General Marshall in the War De respooled highly, in both military our Flipino words and the many sibly caused by the knowledge partment, I I would have to earn and civil life. Among these an thousand Americans, troops and that much Une would elapre bd-
Wefore the "air plan" could be m crease permitted for any the garrison for Corregidor and His
his confluence: the logic of this, qustanding figure was Mr. Ber- civilians, In the archipelago. repairs under seven years' sporting forts. Other my first answer, would have tofnard
uf its were organisel be unimpenchable, and the
unara maruch, for whom my ad-had-in day whatever was femeiely plemented. was and is profound. 1 possible for the hapless islands, bilo
Phillippine division, swer would have to be prompt still believe that if Mr. Barucit's particularly by air support and by To Be Continued which
consisted of Philippine A curious echo Scout units and the 31st Infantry
from the long recon
for recommendations universal providing vital supplies, although! came to my uki.
price fixing and his organisation- Regiment National Guard unitd For three years, soon after the al plans had been completely and three feki artillery regiments, first World War, I surved under promptly adopted in December one anti-aircraft artillery regione of the most accomplished 1941 this country would have ment, ane infantry regiment, two soldiers of our time, Major Gen-saved billions in money-posalbiy troops-had the provi- reinforcements.
recently
arrived as subjects on which he talked to lives. Unfortunately
From task such as those I had sions of this good piece of
The air strength /had been in me most was allied command, its
difficulties and its problemu, An- gone, in 1933, to the Philippines. legislation have been almost creased during 1941, and on the other was George C. Marshall. Now, six years later, I was back completely nullified, and the day of attack there were as mo- Again and again General Conner in the War Department, the na- We cannot escape tion was at war, and the Philip- situation has been allowed to dern bombers, B-178, stationed said to me.
the Philippines. Present also another great war. When we pines were in deadly danger. were 220
Into that war it will 0.alplaces of the Oghter get out of hand, partly no were
So I began my concentration on doubt because the enforce type, hot all of them, sperat company with allies. Systems of General Marshall's question. Our ment of the Ordinance has Ing readiness. General Marshall single command will have to the naval situation in the Western
knew that tal air colachment workert out. We must not pc- Pacine, us outlined by the Chief: been assigned to the Secre-had been hit and badly damaged cept the "co-ordiuption concept of Staff, was at that moment com- tariat of Chinese
Affairs, during the initial Japanese attack, under which Foch was compelled pietely depressing. The Acet already heavily overburdened but he had no report upon the to work. We must insist on in- could not attempt any aggressive circumstances of thất,action, dividual and single responsibility action far from a secure base and· with other duties.
--leaders will, have to learn how dared not venture with surface
furniture provided, or any
pre-war rental value which a landlord might have execut ed. Further, rents payable by principal tenants. tenants, and sub-tenants have to be posted conspicuously on the premises.
ini the Pacific,
its
the
Kome
,
tank ba
baltalions, árid service cral Fox Conner. One of the much in time and therefore, In
'be
to overcome nationalistic consi- vessels into Philippine waters.
This Government Depart ment lacks the personnel tot entire coonomy of the Colony, carry out large-scale house to and the time is overdue when should take house inspections in the vari-Government ous districts of the Colony vigorous action to see that DO YOU checking up on rental notices, the provisions of the Ordin-
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