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STILL "PEGGING" AWAY: DESTING from his

many

The unknown

CAPE VERDE

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PRINCIPE ISLAN

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The General Bans A Book

By A Soldier

T

By

Maurice Brown

THE Americans hanged Yamashita was judged by

Tomoyuki Yamashita Commission of Ava U.S. generals.

None of themo was a lawyer. more than three years

They act according to the ago. This Japanese general terms of General McArthur's was better known to the directive setting up the Commis

for conduct. British as the "Tiger of slon and the rules Malaya," for it was he who directed the capture of Singapore.

At the end of the war in the Pacific, Yamashila was the com- mander of the Japanese forces In the Philippine Islands.

They permitted the prosecution aca of hearsay to produce evidenco and opinion, much of it at second and third band. Andavits from wiincktes who were thousands of.. miles away at the time of the. hearing word allowed evidence,

in

The defence, therefore, had no 10 cross-examine

After his surrender in Sep- timber 1945 he was brought to opportunity trial as a war criminal by order these witnesses. of General MacArthur. ic.was sentenced to death on the fourth anniversary of Pearl Harbour, December 7, 1945.

In the memory of most of us, swift justice had been meted out to the man responsible for the

deaths of 40,000 Filipinos and Americans.

WA

lawyers

An American propagandy film. Orders from Tokyo, was admit- ted in evidence.

Made well before the end of the war, the Alm, erroneously depicted all the death and de- struction in Manlin as the re- sponsibility of the Japanese.

Throughout, the defence was ot the impeded by the hasto IAS it justice? The American Commisalon. The five generals.

defended

wero Impatient of says Reel, who

www.is continual Yamashita, all officers in the objections her US army, do not think. One of insistence on the right of cross- Frank Reel, examination was wasting valu- the story of the able timel It amounted to

Portugal has kept modern empire whole in them, Captain A. Africa, India, China, without has written the use of troops. Timor, freed trial. from the Japs, is peaceful and happy again.

insubordination/"

The trini lasted Uttle more His book, The Case of General

Mac- then a month. General see the Yamashita (University of Chi- For a people who

cago Press), tells of the events Arthur hurried in close by. homeland and the colonies an one, empire trade and the em- that led a group of junior officers ratiogram. Fire policy first are worth sacrt to appeal over the heads of their

MacArthur him- After the end of the hearing, superiors and ices.

Lisbon

housewives self

years

PORTUGAL

Arrows pick out the Portuguese world.

by CHARLES FOLEY

the

All

-

for many bought goods from

the colonies which

to the Supreme Court of the the USA.

Commission pronounced

judgment insido 40 hours.

Punctually on the anniversary:

The charge against Yamashita of Pears Harbour, the Commis

Yomashita

sion pronounced the Government could was that he had "unlawfully dis-

cou regarded and falled to discharge guilty as charged and achtenced have got more cheaply his duty as commander to con- from allen markets.

permitting Public works in Portrol the oper tions of members him to hang. his command, tugal were put aside of

them to commit brutal atro so that men, mon cities.... thereby violating the

and machines could go out to the empire.

By these efforts

output colonial doubled, trebled.

laws of war."

local shows and gymkhanas is Witchcraft is superseded by 62-year-old Mr R Donovan, of the doctrines of Saint Paul Nottingham, whose pastime

horseback rather than the writings of Indian colony of the British help, or counsel of the Unitel committed tent-pegging using an ordinary bayonet to Marx and Strachey.

ол

pick up a speed a 3in. wide

rog. He has been 20 years in

a Regular Army giment places abroad.

STEP UP:

Finally you hear no talk busy. And racing outwards

the

shita's eft:ctive command. Comment

opposition GAINST heavy from their military superiors, the defence lawyers arranged an appear to the Supreme Court of the USA

A majority of the justices of not come within their jurisdic- the court ruled that the case did tion, but passed no verdict on the fairness of the trial

а

cavalry re-lof white man's burden or emigration; thourinds of settlers T SOUGHT out in Lisbon the of the town. Twenty thousand headquarters has since advised

and served in many coloured

WORCESTERSHIRE'S

Arat

man's rights. Throughout this area the United Nations. which calls other colonial countries to woman police Inspector is account has no say. Miss Margaret M. Jones, .pro- In spite of this lack of moted from the mnk of sergeant. She has been in the political modernity there is Force since 1942. During the vast activity in the scattered war she served two years with patchwork of Portugal's do- the RAMC attached to the minions. Royal Corps of Signals.

Her father was formerly Police Superintendent of the Broms- grove division.

|71 \APPLICANTS:

Hustle

TAKE.

from Lisbon goes a wave of

An all the ships.

Early empire

THERE is nothing fresh about the Porturuese going ahead da Gama overseas. Vasco rounded the Cape and planted his bag in India in 1497.

Portugal went empire-build-

obeyed.

the

ing in Africa, not in Victorian come from a complete ignorance to establish that Yamashita had General MacArthur would do

nominally in command of the banning it in Japan. cntire area.

London Express Service)

This charge, later to 3o de scribed by Supreme Court Ju Walco Rutledge as "vagueness it not vaculty," ra'sed a new prin- Now the reaping. ciple of responsibility-that Portugal's empire commander is a criminal if his offers her cheap and men commit atrocities, whether plentiful commodities or not he ordered them to do 50. General. MacArthur, in leam- empire

Last year Betra handled 364 Fortugal has become Indepen-, whether or not he knows that ing that the Supreme Court had

that have been committed.

refused to accept jurisdiction, offera singular contrasta to occan-going ships. It is being dent in many vital ways. Today

Yam-hita was held to be halled the conviction of Yard-

he was techni-

shila

na "beyond challenge." our own. Viceroys are not extended fast, like several other she grows all her own cotton.

Nacala, Groundnuts and other oilseed: ruilty because scut out from Lisbon to ports. One of these,

all the fat cally in command of the area And, on February 23, 1040, the hanged "Tiger of Malown" was where the crimes occurred. Resummer exhibitions atliquidate possessions, can take several Queen Marys provide her with

From the Azures, which have the meds and a surplus to ex-

That, in brief outline, is the- this has been accom-THE defence established at the air traffic, to Atlantic

plished, without the correction. trial that the forces who story told by Captain Reel. His been harvesting dollars from the port at high prices.

atrocities in book was published in the USA ERO. over two months Goa-which

Manila were not under Yama- just

Tokyo newspaper re- Recently exporting largely

are Nations. Empirel the Portuguese

of MacArthur's He had ordered the evacuation viewed it

remained behind Colonial Under Secretary naval troops

or publish the Senhor Rui de Sa Carnetro, to because the Admiral command- Japanese editors and publishers advico has been ask him if Portugal's absenceing them had decided to obey an not to review

order issued by the book. The from UN she is barred by carlier Stalinis not a handicap, Japanese navy.

Captain Iteel throws the re- of the atrocities When most "A handicap?" he said. "Yes.

far sponsibility for framing Yamashita was occurred

terms of reference of the Com- 01 mission

General Mac- upon but not to us. It is the United Nations who are losing-by the away in the hills and out

Do. Arthur,

His book is a powerful and There were other crimes, too. majority of members show an

detalled piece of advocacy. benefit of our experience. The contact with these troops, Incomprehension that can only But the prosecution were unable of colonial affairs."

ordered the commission of any. well to pay it the compliment Vasco da Gama, in today's or that he knew they had occur of a reply as an alternative to topees but in the steel casquets

would scarcely red. It was enough that he was and breast plates of 1495.

strange world, During the century after da have put it otherwise. Gama, almost half the populn-

(London Express Survies) a British witness. tion-one million Portuguese- Sir Godfrey Huggins. Failed off to find new homes. It DARLINGTON'S new Civil This energetic Premier of was the greatest human invest-

(General) In- structor 18 Leutenant-Colonel South Rhodesia has just ment made by any, nation.

71 visited Portuguese Africa, White Brilain aims to make her of nations npplicants. Ho was in the and spoken of the skill and independent

regarding her possessions simp- ly as provinces that happen to The natives as the Marines Barracks, Ports- Huggins found the Por- be oversens mouth, where he was also

tuguese had poured million's soon as they are elvilised have officer in charge of civil defence.

of pounds into the two great the same opportunities as the

NEW YORK. a British TV company had ar- PIBLE READING, which is regions that flank land-lock- settlers

B When the result?

£2,000,000 compulsory under law in Goa

must have JUST after down one moming rived to sell up to

all New Jersey schools, will be MADE IN SHEFFIELD: ed Rhodesia-Angola, big- Nehru says

recently. six sleepy New worth of equipment.

Doremus, "We are here." Mr Jones told banned Donald York newemen c'ambered the cogging ger than the Union of South Home rule like the rest of India, TIJORKERS In

Answer": and hillct

still-moving liner me, because with devaluation member of a Secu'arist group, mill of Stect, Africa, and Mozambique, thighest posts at home as aboard the

the British have a bit of a price, wins the suit he fled in Pater- "Our Peech and Tozer, Ltd. She with 1,500 miles of coastline. well as overseas are open to any America to report her arrival.

manufac son. Said Mr Doremus, "Some cheery edge over American field, have rolled

They were met by a

turers."

portions of the Bible are so But Portugal is not con- Portuguese Indian regardless of tons of steel

He brought five tons of filthy that some day it will be mantha It exceeds by more tent to serve her own needs race, regardless of religion. All Englishman

are barred from the US, mall something Jones. peoples have than 80,000 tons the previous with a network of new com- our

samples with him. "We We'll do your work for you, champing at the bit for orders," year's output and is a world's munications and industries, much greater than the chance to rule themselves--they can help

he promised. and he showed he said. She wants to move the.

comfortable into a

CHOW BUSINESS: Hollywood on a footing of

on announces "is most ambi- WEIGHING THE MAYOR: riches of all Central Africa: us to govern the whole en reporters

and homeland

lounge and sat them down

⚫ for attacks THEN the unique custom ofthrough her ports.

absolute equality."

front of a British-made TV set. WATCH

W General Eisenhower. flous clean-up campaign A of this policy has weighing the Mayor, council- Sho

tho How

council of 35,000 film 'already

Then Mr Jones put up. American Labour's top political new officials of High

chrome and uranium from political assimilation and com-

that people headed by Star Ronald worked out? British-made TV camera out strategists have decided Wycombe recently took place, if Rhodesia, America's hush-hush mon citizenship

side on the dick and transmit-

the general the only

is

man Reagan, said it will try to drive the was found that 14 of the coun-

who can defeat President Tru- cillors had put on weight- uranium from the Belgian Congo: Here is a contrast:-

even coal from Johannesburg

BRITAIN since the war has ted to the lounge receiver to

arrival scene passing several by more than a stone Cape Town by way of Belra pier. abdicated her rule In

India, whole

man has been so pro-Labour tortionists, shake-down artista, and four had lost weight

to and other criminal elements Lately,

that these strategists want sinco inst year's

a cost of £6,000,000, Burma, and Ceylon. Nationalism the Statue of Liberty, tying up, inan in the 1852 elections. Trus from Hollywood all the "ex- ceremony.

power. THe retiring Mayor was the Portuguese have taken over is daring up in West Africa and and celebrities going ashore.

company the other colonies, Every day British Result of this British enter keep the Democrats in amang those who weighed less from a British

are being killed In prise. Is that

newspapers all And so they will do their best who sock to entrap and prey and were cheered by the crowd. Indian Ocean port and railway troops

wise." we liberated over America reported that Mr to see that Eisenhower is "neu- upon the unwary and the un- There were feers for those who of Beira, one of the anest south Malaya, which of the Equator.

from Japan.

Jones and four colleagues from trallied long before 1952. had gained.

F.P.C. Lordon, chosen from

Roval Marines from 1917 to hustle that is transforming colonies, Portugal insists

1948 and his last appointment was as second-in-command of it.

record.

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