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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1940.

THE SEVENTY-SIXTH INSTALMENT

CRUSADE

After the necessary papers! had been signed by Field Marshal Jodi and General Smith, with the French and Russian representa- tives signing es witnesses, Fleid Marshal Jodl was brought to my office. I asked him through the thoroughly interpreter

he understood all provisions of the document he had signed,

He answered, "In."

Chapter 22

ceremony was, as we

IN EUROPE

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's transfer to the Pacific.

Own Story Of The War

In Europe

GOVT'S TRIALS IN CANTON

Canton, February 5.

vanced for us to begin the mass The Central Government is meeting more than a. W little resistance here in its efforts to find quar- tors for its myriad departments and offices, Even with the co-operation of local authorities, this resistance has made for a,number of awk ward situations and delays.

Several factors made at har- der a problem that was at best a very complex business. Adequate strength had to be maintained in Europe for the occupation of con- quered Germany. The imme- diately critical requirements In Seat

to be followed by our planes over released for operations against the Astotle theatre were for BCT-

ing the highlights of the Berlin Red Army would join in the at- vice among the millions of indi- agencies have already taken monner.

ally ente

WHE

with

con-

sume,

March."

th,

the Mediterranean

return

lo

school

of some of the stiffest opposition is at the No- tional Sun Yat-sen University, where anti-Kuo- I said, "You will, officially and Russian-occupied territory. How the oriental end of the Axis. vice units, while our own need, personally, be held

responsible ever, these were accomplished Russia was still oficially at peace for these same units was more mintang feeling has always been high. There, if the terms of this surrender are and Tedder kept the appointment, with the Japanese but, according acute than ever before if we were

students have asked the Chancellor, Dr. Chen or three to the information furnished us, speedily to accomplish the ship- violated, including its provisions accompanied by two for German commanders to up-

planelands

hack of officers, enlisted Generalissimo Stalin

toldment of combat divisions to the Ko Chung, to try to keep government offices pear in Berlin at the moment set men, Waes, and press representa- President Roosevelt at Yalta that Far East, Even greater dimeuity

from being established on the campus. tives. Some months later I saw within three months from the day grew out of our policy of equalis=" by the Russian' high commander

German aurrender the ling the burdens of combat ser- Several government research, ferring to rent them in the usual to accomplish formal surrender in Moscow a movie film portray- of the to that government. That is at.

-ceremony-Ala-meation was made lock-ogniust: Japartam

viduals inlecommandeur quaclothes and the Mine du som owens brikkir 2015 In the film of the prior surrender

Against divided hostile forces there were, in the grant Allied

"Or. the day of the surrender "istry of Education is also mov-have asked the present* tenants at Reima.

are to stay, even though there Bre more than one lender of the past Force, more than 3,000,000 Amering in, but the students

still asking for resistance to any they should leave.

strong government hints that My Victory Order of the Day" has successfully employed mobrans under my command. This

There have VICTORY'S

looked forward with hope to co-ity and

further intrusions. concentrate force Included 61 U.S. divisions, surprise to opérative solutions of postwar his own forces. Best against one all except one of which

been few, if any, cases of tenants There are had

only about 1,500 being forced out of quartera AFTERMATH problems.

students at the After thanking the isolated portion of the enemy and participated in actual battle.

University at where they had for after defeating it, turned

any length of Under the tens of the sur- troops and the home fronts

Men with the longest battle present, the rest having gone for tenure, their unfalling support I said: overwhelming power to the de-service were to be assigned to oes the month-long mid-winter vaca- render document the hends of the

It Is still passible to rent The mute you have travelled through struction of the second, Never cupation duty German armed services were re-bandreds of miles

by the before, however, had this simple others were to go on to the Paci- yesterday did not anticipate any rates and living space

or sent home; tion, Campus residents contacted

office La marked

space at folely redsonable quired to appear in Berlin on graves of former consules. Fach of the method of war been applied one.

in local Many of our divisions were violent demonstrations when the hotels is not all gone by May 9 to algu a ratiilention In the fallen dled ka a member of the team to

a scale broader than continental

Wtudents

any of. 11 veterans Russian hemlquarters. The second which you belong, bound together by a

months' But the conception tinuous

means. Buildings large enough fighting,

while we understood common of liberty and a refund to in scope.

its house government bureaus was just as correct globally as it among them the 1st, 3rd, Our common it, to symbolise the unity of the bittenslavement

No Requisitioning aro, however, hard to And, and was locaily, and the Allied len- 36th, and 45th Infantry Divisions problems of the Immersiale and dielant Western Allies and the Soviets, future raz be heat, mudved in the mediers responsible for its applien- and the 20nd Airborne and 2n have been rather hesitant to re- the hotel rooms left offer poor Central Government officials widely scattered, while most of to give notice "10 the Ger-conceptions of cooperation and devotion tion in World War II were not Armoured Divisions, had entered quisition buildings outright, pre-nccommodations.-United Press. mans and to the world that so the rauer human fren na ha dismayed because the planned the war the surrender was made to ali, mude This Expeditionsby Forte nuch п

redeployment against the second campaign. The okler onça had not merely to the Western Allies, mighty engine of righteous destruction,

misty plan of fire h the profitless enemy involved the transport of fought with only brief interrup Bicting considerations of fairness, aspect headquarters with no For this reason we were directes! to withhold news of the first sign-urzels in which her men will inermillions of men and unlimited tlons for two and a half years.

to the individual and the effic-other responsibility than to guide, to what country, what quantities of equipment from Eu The 34th Infantry and 1st Ar- ing until the reconil could be ne-

MyView, won the European war, Every rope halfway around the world moured Divisions, still in the culty arose

ency of units. An added diff= supervise, and expedite the move- complished.

Wim, at every nation here to Jupan.

when the War De-ment. That headquarters was In order that Americans and represented has served seconding to his

Mediterranean thentre, had done partment found it Russian redeployment meant likewise.

advisable to formally established on April 9, British newsinen could have the or he ability, and the efforts of each the shifting of large turces from

the "critical point" score, ja full month before the German change full story of the Reims surrender, hare entellated

To make necessary adjustments This created titional work, lo surrender. we invited a number to be pre-

West to East over the long Trans-required wholesale transfers from pay nothing of confusion ant some 8

whall be revering each haired grave, Siberian Railway, Because only many of the veteran divisions and discontent.

Because of his unequalled ex- sent at the geremony. In nccept- and be metdirəc comfort to the loved ones the

railroad Onc

perience in the handling of vast system was the the invitation

Our administrative machine in bombing

Generat campaigns, whis eld had live to see available, that task was laboriousing up of vacancies by men until the this day.

shorter battle service, At Europe had to be thrown into Spatz was relieved from duty in story could be omelally given out

We had no local victory cele- would take time to accom- the same time we had to be ex-

But for the Western Allics

Bases, plish. under the agreements among the brations of any

felds, depots, our theatre and sent to the Paci- lica tremely careful to preserve the kind, then or the transfer of

poris. roads, and railways were c An experienced army com- Allies. One American reporter later. When Joxil signed we mere-armies and

of their European forces to the deficienes of units; to have sent to geared up to push men and sup-mander was also desired in the published the story before the

clivisions ty went to bed for some much-ile

plles forward into the heart Far East. Genernt Hodges, whose stupendous un-near recruits would have been Germany. release hour, Which

Involving hundreds of ser

They had, Agurative First Army had accomplishes its other newsmen who

kept faith.

and tackle the multitude of ships operating over sea routes day

ly, to face abouf and begin

din anal tusk in Europe when The Incident created a consider-

The Individual soldier's clig-operating in the other direction. renched the Elbe, was selected. iosks that followed upon the ces-

the ces ten thousand miles long. oble furore, but in the outcome antion of hostilities.

bility for duty or discharge was Supplies and munitions were seat- Thereafter,

He As carly

was not only completely com- potent

andl

but, experienced other publications.

plans to system, based in the satisfying knowledge that accomplish this move. There was length of service, length of time Northern Africa.

ou credits for and through much of Italy and

commanders, The Western Allies were in the carnage in Europe had endeti. continuous consultation between overseas, decorations, parenthood, be collected, Inventoried, packaged battle front for the

These had to could be earliest sparet from our Vited and expected participate Our problems were difficult but members of my staff and the Wor and age. Application of the sys- and shipped.

theatre. He departed from the in the sting at Berlin, but I we were spared casualty lists. Department. By V-E Day, sched-tem was tedious, but probably no primary consideration.

Speed was the

Pacific, by felt it inappropriate for me per- The most intricate and pressing ules, priorities, and organisational better plan could have been de-

way of the United States, before sonally to go. The Germans had of our immediate problems was preparation were sufficiently advised to accommodate the con- single undertaking that we set up|

So vast and urgent was this the surrender date in Europe. already appeared in the Allied redeployment.

To Be Continued Headquarters to accomplish their

Every since 1941 the global unconditional surrender and strategy of the Allies had insisted hought the ratification in Berlin upon defeat of Germany before should be a Soviet affair, Con- undertaking an all-out concerted sequently I designated my deputy, offensive against the Japanese, Alr Chief Marshal Tedder, to re- The German surrender.on. May 7 present me at the ceremony, It marked the accomplishment of was difficult business to make all the Arst and greatest Allied ob-j the detailed arrangements con-Jective.

withhold public they agreed

Man, every

to the nutcome. This

jee abah remember-and in doing so we

Lať centrades

infuriated needed rest, to get up the next gatre s

the Pacific whole

senseless.

of

reverse.

of

no real harm was done, except to however, all our work was done had begun develop" 4945 we determined by an elaborate point lered throughout Western Europe among our army

cerning timing, the numbers and Now it was time to turn with classifications of individuals af- all speed to the second. Through- lowed to attend, and the routes out the world Allied forces were

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