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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1947.

A Terrible Silence Settled Over The Sprawling

Wilderness

Bataan's Story On The

Anniversary Of The Most Unequal Fighting of the War

By

SPENCER DAVIS

"In Mariveles harbour, the Interisland atcamer Taiping loaded with bombs was 'blown up......

It is five long years since Bataan, which In, the words of Lieutenant General Walnwright. was "a hopeless hell where

At 1.10 P.M. April 9, troops éverything was bad except the Corregidor, there was mention will to live."

of that daring air attack which in fatigue clothes were observed cargo ventola marching on the Cabeahen left five enemy

sinking, several | rond... ... . . . . burning and others damaged and fires raging on the enemy docks of Olongapo and Grande Island.

About hson on April 9, 1942, terrible silence settled over of the sprawling wilderness bamboo and jungle overgrowth. to this That ailence exists day.

DEATH

BILSON-On 9th April 1947, at

the Queen Mary Hospital. A William Terry Bilson, Health Inspector, Medicai Depart- ment, Hongkong, formerly Sergeant of the Field Amba

H.K.V.D.C. lance Company, Aged 30 years. Service will be held at the Colonial Ceme tery Chapel at 4.30 p.m. to- day.

Villagen wiped out in suma of the most desperately unequal fighting of any war have been restored..

not

Bataan's mute battlefields re- main undisturbed slumbering under the mists, that roll In very day from the China sen.

At 4.00 P.M. a Japanese 25 millimeter battery was rushed forward and opened fire Corregidor from the beach near Cabenben AR a foretanto of what wo, were to except."

"Because the battery was in plain sight it quickly was. de- our batteries". stroyed 166 millimeter fire from!

Worst of All One-plane failed to return and two others overshot the and crashed on landing, leaving Cabcaben field on their return

only one plane that could fly, CARVALHO-On 9th April 1947

Perhaps the worst night of!

At A Disadvantage- all had been the night before at 10.10 am, at St. Theresa's

The triumphant Japanese of Hospital, Homem de Carval-

the surrender.

"However on account of the ho, Helené

the Imperial general headquaṛ- Georgina, nee

General Moore's recold went large number of our own cap, Voroshkevich, dearly beloved ters had waited a few days

tured troops being marched wife

Antonio Homem de after Major General Edward P. on:

All that night and on the out on the Bataan roads and valho, mother of Manuela King Jr had walked into a de- CA (Kiki) and Socorro

surrender refugees on account of two base hospitals day of the Barle-Yvonne (Zaza). Funpidated school building

own alck and we regidor by boats, rafts, banens wounded, were at a dig. eral will pass the Monument Limay to discuss the surrender from Batuan poured into Cor-filled with our to-day at 5.30 p.n. (No flow of his forces. ers by request.)

Then a communique blared: or any other means of keeping advantage.-Associated Press.

aflost across the two mile "The Imperial army units channel.

MARRIAGE

HARDOON-YUNG: The marri age between Mr. David George Hardoon, eldest of the Inte Mr. & Mr. 3. A.

in

crushing the American and The night sky was illuminat

the Filipino forces holding elaborate defonse positions In the Batann area completely of- cupied the peninsula after launching a general drive...............、 "at least

been 40,000 have

ed for houra 38 armmunition stores and various installations were blown up.

Hardoon of Shanghai, and captured including Major Gen 100 Years

ni

Min Lily Yung, youngest eral King, Major General daughter of the late Mr Albert M. Jones. commander Troong King Yung, textile of the first army corps. Major and cotton magnate of

General Parker, commander of Shanghai, will take place the Registry to-day at 12.30

the second carpa and Major General Francisco, commander p.m.

of the Filipina forces."

"There

6,700 Some American officers and men....

VETO ABUSE

were

Unmentioned

Ago Today

(Extracts from the files of the 'China Matt" of April 10, 1847). The congregation of the Presby- erian Church, conducted for the resent by the Rev. W. C. Burns, vill meet every Sabbath in the Bungalow Immediately behind the! Club House.

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The "Columbine" has gone up river to, relieve the "Vulture" he crew of the latter vessel are uffering from Ague.

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CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

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Em sorry I'm lato, Professor Jonds overslept in his.

tory class!"

Why France Commemorates The Bruneval Raid

On Sunday, March 10, on a hill- overlooking the small beach at 1 Bruneval, about 12 miles N.E., of lald the Havre, Gen. de Gaulle foundation stone of a menorial to

by Combined the capture Operations, on the night of Feb. 28, 1942, of a Gorman radioloca- tion apparatus.

By GEOFFREY MYERS,

Of The "Daily Telegraph"

the Germans a month later was shot in 1943.

and

The monument also commemor utes

the co-operation of the that he received a signal asking t French Resistance Movement with him to rend urgently to London flow ve

hand-gregades at the house on the bead, charged and captured' German Consternation Soon after half past two the the parachutists, next morning who had been waiting on the beach which they had captured, Gawe, assault landing-craft silently to felch approaching In his memoirs Romy then the Channel

home. It required

13 hours

oyerhead, and destroyer near the landing-craft. tack. There was consternation in "Particular parachutists in

empbasis," ho

area when, it was The the raid, is to he among

writes, "was laid on a path lead the Hayre British guests.

ing down to the beach. Was on guarded? Was it closed by barbed the capture of the apparatus

was one of the keys to the aud

to

the British forces, which ensured all possible information about the phe Germans did not ones. al-

the success of this daring raid Bruneval stalion. ..-Col. J. D. Frost, who as major commanded the

the

had

what had justified.

World confidence in the ability of the Security Council to deálj Left unmentioned were the with international disputes has days of the heartbronking de been severely shaken by the con- | laying action which had held up tinued use of the veto to prevent the Nippon's mad surge of con- any decision being reached on quest four months and finally matters brought to its attention. required fresh troops from the The Russian veto of the resplu. Malaya campalga to overcome

the correspondence. By 1942 French patriots tion on Albania was a flagiant the malaria ridden Filipino-lumn: "Whenever you are in provided the British Intelligence wire? Was the beach mined?" example of the way in which the American soldiers whose legs want of a subject for a few remation about the German radar

Services with considerable infor

privileged position of the Great Powers on the Security Council of the four successive landings ar but advocating the cause of counter-measures to mako the tlon, illustrated by skotchon Thith PAY and should not be used. The veto was from the sea that the Japanese 'he pubile in general if you were German radar ineffectivo pointed was condensed 'itito a' carefully | valled, seven wounded and overf originally intended to strengthen had attempted only to be push-a call the attention of the out the value of capturing an a-worded cipher message which was i

assurance

when

would risk provoking the large cale hostilities which the United

· Nations was established

gave under them da they fought, marks I am sure you would not system on the

Nor was there any mention only be doing the fair sex a fav- British

equipped with improvised bomb

scientists

Channel

working

Secret Intelligence

Romy passed the signal to Du-cesful jamming of the radar on coast. mant, who returned a few days the Normandy, coast which did no

landings, on later with the fullest Informa much to create the surprizo effect "Brittin" losack Wore."" dhe

Frank. Emery and Ptow the United Nations by giving aned back

transmitted to London on a secret missing. Among the misting wern paratus. onto Bataan beaches equestrians to the propriety of

The scheme was devised by the radio set. that the five per- and then into the sea itself.

commanded by George Cornell, who were unabl Parachutists xercising a little consideration planning. sta

Combined of manent members of the Security

either "passing each other (pass Operations under Viscount Mount Major 3. D. Frost studled their to join the landing-craft.

of took refuge in the house of Mme. Council would be unanimous There was no mention of how ng ladies in particular) on the batten, with the First Airborne plan of action with the aid

days and then passed thear to her any enforcement action the four remaining F-40s patch-read or on the course in the Val- Division, RAF 38. Wing and the models. They know that the radar, Delarde, who hid them for some

station was protected by a gal brother, M. Maurice La Jule.~**** had to be taken. If they were ed together with baling wire a ley and not to push past other Navy,

rison of more than 100 GermanHe and his wife accompanied not, any effort to use compulsion few weeks earlier had been riders at such a furious pace."

who could be reinforced by a

ate them-down to unoccupied and armoured battalion

buti'an

the four were trying t

demarcation Inc With the help of French Ro-giment of infantry.

The apparatus was situated on the der

La Jolo were deported

this to down sistance groups the choice of the the cliff, some 300ft above the schwer, all arrested, M. and target was narrowed

the radar in front of a fortified house with notatious concentration camps of of Brunoval. Plans

surrounding machine-gun nests, protected by Ravensbruck and Buchenwald, bute station and of the

the trenches and barbed-wire en-

all the four havo survived: terrain were drawn

tanglements. A party would have greatest detail by the

to deal with the garrison at farmhouse, La Prosbytere, a This group was led by Gilber nificient time for the spparatus of a mile away to allow quarter his battle Renault who, under name of "Remy." later wrote to be dismantled and removed 15

Memoirs of a Secret Agent." covo nearby. Roger Dumont, and ex-oilleer of

FIL Sgt. W. P. Cox, an ex- the French Air Force who trans-pert radio engineer who volun mitted the plans, was caught by teered to dismantle, the appara-

became tux, learned how to

three weeks.

to pre-

racks and taken off from the! Soda water, aerated lemonade Cabeaten airfield at the base of and seltzer water, direct from Bataan for a raid on the Jap- Hamburgh, on sale at Hong Kong

Dispensary, Queen's Road. anese base at Suble Bay.

From the hitherto unpubliciz

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sent. Many voices were raised in best at San Francisco against extending the principle of Greated personal records of Major The "Braganza" has not yot Power unanimity not only to en- General George F. Moure, som arrived. With others we might forcement. but also to proposals! mander of the harbour de- guess as to the couse of her do-hood of Notre Damo."

for peaceful settlement; not only fenues with headquarters

to differences between the Great

Powers themselves, but also to disputes between smaller Powers

on loy were we fond of sporting an opinion against which the odds would be rather long. But with national caution, we would ven. and between Small Powers and on those drgans of the United ture to think that barring oc Great Powers. No Great Power, Nations in which it cannot be eldents-she will come by-and-

exercised. The solution is

not❘ bye.

it is true, can use its veto when the Security Council is dealing deal, but it would serve till there with the peaceful settlement of a is either a change in the structure lisoute to which it is a party, and of the Security Council or in the Britain had he vote when its com

plaint against Albania was before

the Counted. But under the exist-

attitude of some of its members.

ing charter any other Great Pow- JAP. REPARATIONS

er can veto, ar Russia did, a de- cision in favour of the Power.in-

volved. The case for a modifica tion of the

Vcto power is

Burma's protest against the initial allotment of Japanese re parations is one with which Hong

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"Brother

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorities”

CONSIDER EVERY CLUE Lackadaisical players are prone

parachutist loy, carrying a

tha

force of 120 parachutists, arrived

to

Murderer Of Brigadier Not Insane

1444.7 Tricate, Apr. 8.

Ju

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Mária Pasquinelli, the Italion,

who shot

over the French coast the radar school teacher station could be seen standing out Brigadler R.W. de Winton, com In the now, which glistened to mander of the British Infantry, the moonlight. Just then the Ger- Brigade, at Pola last month, le man defences, warned by the not Insane. radiolocation apparatus, went in- to action.

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Perfect Landings.

strengthened every time, it is used Kong will sympathize. Nothing to act as if the location of second-spado 2 and finessed, the A, A. the men were dropped; and | of mental instability, n

always

The report of the Paychia- triste'. Commission which, hán the next two tricks going to, the heart A and K. Then came the

boen examining Pasquineill saysı they, found no adequate evidenc sole variation. One declarer led; which lost to the 10, whereupon the parachutes opened the air. The report, which has been en delay the settlement of a dis- is known here regarding the de-ary cards, like queens, Jacks and the spade A and diamond-A સ

to the Allied Milltary pute. The conception of the rails, but the complaint that the tens, is a matter entirely in the the contract. The other declare craft were 'surrounded by puffs of sani Security trying her, agreed, how

More ternational peace sprinkler system claims of the British Empire ter- be guessed.

conscientious trick, forsed the 3, which machine-gun fire. As soon as the

Germans ceased fire, and the of her personality, reacted to which could be quickly timed on ritories over-run by Japan, has to calculators consider that nearly frick, but finessed the 3 which Whitleys had passed overhead the ever, that accused; "hy reason

there is some Indication, fence would have got no more at the press of a button and easily consented to, take a back that card is more likely to be tricks. If East had not laid down main party made perfect landings the external environment with querch any possible world concat or otherwise has not been in one place than another. No his diamond. Aus gades would precisely at the scheduled timo exaggerated impulses in a state "By Air to Battle," the official of limited responsibility, thi flagration at its earliest begin versistent enough in staking liri, matter how faint may be such a have furnished discards of South's sccount of the British Airborne legal valuation of which cannot

Divisións, deverifies the action as; nings is completely destroyed iftish claims, fits so closely in with clue, they weigh it to determine diamonds.

whereas their course of action, access to the button is persistent- the spirit of its policy in ope the carolees, blundering type just ed that West probably held the one party was to attack the hotzet

a model attack. Maj. Frost with be ascertained by the Psychia

triats. Commission." --Router: ty denied. It is not suggested and with its manana jattitude to bulk along and hopes for the 4 of aither spades or diamonds near the apparatus, Fit. Sgt. Cox that the dispute between Britain warda assessing legitimate claims, best,

for his single free bid, and that and the soppors were to go STUDENTS VISIT the spale was the more likely, straight to the post itself, and a

third party and

BRITAIN since East probably had the dia- th

under Lt. E: C..B.

Tynemouth, Apr. 8. mend honour for his fat all. Chartoris was to secure the besch A hó played it, ho wan)

which the parachutists Two dozen students repres apade Q, whereas the other do- would be taken off by the Navy sonting 12 nationalities, France.

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and Albania might lead to war that the accusation seems of a na hur, big conflagrations may start ture difficult to refute. In gen- in small countries, and it is thereferal, le is necessary, to approve fare important that all disputes General MacArthur'e; insistence should be speedily settled. that a decision about reparations 1100 Since there is no immediate and the terms of peace should be pa hope that the veto power will be reached at any early dots. Gen. "CAKQJ changed the only action that cinerul MacArthur's views, based 970 be taken within the framework upon his estimation of the present of the United Nations is to refer needs of Japart and the require the dispute to the International ments of future international Court of Justice or bring it be security, command respect, and fare the General Assembly. The sympathy. Everything favours the British case against Albania, since early conclusion of a Far Eastern it involves a series of breaches of settlement, of which formal-peace North international law, is one which, with Japan must constitute « an Fals

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The on

defences di the beach, how come by the Mayor of Tynes ever, had tiot been houtrailsad by mouth) SE UJEMAVBUT Diriny the time the men began to move their stay of ten days they, will towards it with the captured up visit, a coal mine, a chipyard, paratus. Two of the Whitleys had and other industries and wil been diverted by flak, and (Cher attend a number of Iocturns At toria with "hla men Had been drop" ranged for them. Router.

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to the south.

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