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Show I x tg. THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM. UTAH ' a Trial of the 'War Criminals' Be erinath of 'Unconditional Surrender"9 j.vn.VW, , esstvs srMi - - man aggression plunge the world into another holocaust The kaiser, however, was not the only German leader whom the vic-torious Allies had marked for pun-ishment. Another article in the Ver-sailles treaty stipulated that "the German government recognizes the right of the Allied powers to bring before military tribunals persons ac-cused of having committed acts in violation of the laws and customs of war . . . The German govern-ment shall hand over to the Allied powers all persons accused of such offenses." A list of 900 names, which in-cluded almost all of the military and political leaders of Germany during the war, was prepared in accord-ance with this article. The publica-tion of this list, which was headed by the names of Field Marshal Von Hindenburg and General Ludendorf, stirred up a violent protest among the people of Germany and the new rulers of that country pleaded with the Allies not to force them to hand ftHang Kaiser' ) LWill Adolf L Lucky? "7t WATSON rnVwspaP" Union. 3XD1TI0NAL sur-- j'er" is the watch-r- d o the Allies has been put, the Axis lead-lung-ed the world LUbe placed upon crimes against ie which they and .ers have commit- - ie promise of Pres-ieve- lt and Prime hurchill and it is that there will be on to that program ,h Stalin and Gen-Chia- ng Kai-she- k, the people of Po-c-e, Belgium, Hol-wa- yt Denmark, i Czechoslovakia angto say about it, issolini, Hirohito Uow international rill not escape pun-- 5 did Kaiser Wil-art- er of. a century 17.18 "hang the kaiser" ir ilogan in the Allied en after the German abdicated and found blland. That slogan inue Prime Minister in power in the British member, 1918, and that in it might be made :cated by Article 227 of Versailles, which was k months later. The ied snd Associated jblicly arraign former-- i emperor, for su-ns- ei against interna-ilit-y and the sanctity i. The Allied and Powers will address lo the government of lands for the surren-- m of the nl he may be put on y it was proposed that a isisting of five judges, em the United States, in, France, Italy and d be organized to serve :t Justice for the archi-ll in January, 1920, a :r.d was made upon But Imme-ila- n struck a snag. For government announced not a signatory to the treaty, therefore not i terms and, moreover, honor forbade the sur-- e royal refugee. f the fear that the kai-e- e from Holland, the nments repeated their Queen Wilhelmina and rs announced that this oundless since by royal taiser would be restrict-"ai- n section of Utrecht en to leave it. Warning ivernment that "the re'- s now that of the Neth-'- e Allies left the matter o the Prussian war-lor- d Wj g at r he lived to see an revive his old and Ger-- r l Turkey-a- nd it is doubtful if any of these would welcome the arch-crimin-of all history. The present Fascist-- minded government of Argen-tina might if he could get across the Atlantic, either by or air-plane. But that is a remote possi-bility, so it looks as though the Aus-trian house-painte- r has little chance of living to a ripe if dishonored old age in exile. Perhaps, like Napoleon, he would exclaim "I prefer death." That was what the French dictator said when told that the British government was sending him to the barren rock of St. Helena. After his defeat at Wa-terloo, he surrendered to the captain of the British man-o'-wa- r, Bellero-pho- n, and threw himself upon the mercy of the prince regent, who lat-er became King George IV. Napo-leon believed that he would be al-lowed to settle down in some com-fortable little place in England and great was his dismay and indigna-tion when he learned that his cap-tors had other plans for him. A Dictator in Exile. It was then that he declared his preference for death and it is said that Lord Liverpool, the British prime minister, was quite willing to accommodate him, just as mil-lions today would be glad to accom-modate Adolf Schickelgruber if he expressed a preference for death to exile or imprisonment. However, delegates from Great Britain, Rus-sia, Austria and Prussia who formed the "Convention of Paris" in 1815 to pass upon Napoleon's war guilt over-ruled the wish of the British prime minister and the exile to St. Helena was the result. On that cheerless little island in the South Atlantic, he spent the next six years as a mili-tary prisoner with the rank of a Brit-ish general "out of employment." Under instructions from the British government, he was treated as Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte, not as the em-peror of France. One of the horrors of civil war is the bitterness of feeling between citizens of the same country which frequently transcends the bitterness the people of one nation feel toward "foreigners" with whom they are at war. During the Revolution many Patriots had a greater hatred for their former friends and neighbors, who were Loyalists, or Tories, than they had for the British soldiers or the Hessian mercenaries. Similarly four years of war which began in 1861 engendered animosities that were to linger for generations. If many Southerners hated "that ape in the White House." there were an equal large number of North-erne- rs whose fa- - sM vorite song was a m.. jf,l promise to "hang Jp?i)v r4 Jeff Davis to a W-yM- f sour apple tree. fyi$ For the North, Jj.f'J which could ad- - xVj. mire the military ' genius of a Lee yL,-- ' fl or a "Stonewall" 'jtfr;..M Jackson, appar-entl- y could not Jefferson Davis concede that "that archtraitor," Jefferson Davis, had a single admirable trait. So their wrath for all "rebels" was concen-trate- d on the head of the president of the Confederacy. After Lee's surrender Davis, with members of his cabinet, fled south in Georgia. He and he was captured was imprisoned in Fortress Monroe and subjected to unnecessary indig-nities through the influence of cer-tai-n revengeful members of the radical wing of the Republican party were determined to bring him I trial for his "war guilt." Finally, after two years, Davis was pleased with Horace Greeley Northerners, who had been his enemies during the war. pro-tidin- g his bail bond. His health broken by his prison experience and outcry for revenge having the public effort was died down, no further made to prosecute him. KAISER WILIIELM II over these war criminals, declaring that it would mean the overthrow of the government and the resultant chaos. Farcical Trials. In response to this plea, the Allied governments cut the list down to 45 persons and permitted the Germans to conduct the trials. The result was a foregone conclusion. The Germans stalled as long as possible on the matter and it was not until three years after the war ended that a court in Leipzig went through the motions of staging a trial. All of the war criminals were freed either because their "innocence was proved" or because "their misdeeds were not covered by German law." By this time the Allies were no longer allied and public sentiment among their peoples was largely in-different to the idea of retribution. As a climax to the whole farcical affair, the outstanding "war crim-inal," Von Hindenburg, was elected president of the republic of Germany and the weakness of this hard-bitte- n old warrior as the head of a civil government paved the way for the rise of Adolf Schickelgruber. So the "war criminals" section of the Versailles treaty remained as the only dead letter in it until this same Schickelgruber made the others dead letter also by tearing up the whole treaty and hurling it in the faces of Germany's conquerors Will the "war criminals oi mm "get away with it" the same way that those of 1914 did? Will Schick-elgrub-emulate the kaiser and find sanctuary in some "neutral- - cou-ntry' The list of such possible havens is small indeed-Swe- den St. Helena Switzerland. Portugal. Spain and P"" C THEY WERE CsS WHITE W.N.U.FEATURES torpedo tubes, and four machine guns firing In pairs from each side. As for armor, well, there's a story on that. The first time we tangled with the Japs one of our machine-gunner- s kept crouching down behind the shield which rose just under the noses of his guns. When It was over we asked him why he hadn't stood up to fire. " 'Hell, he said. 'I didn't want to get nicked. I was crouching down behind that armor.' Then we had to tell him that shield was --lnch ply-woodkeeps spray out of your eyes, but it can't stop anything the Japs might tend. There isn't an ounce of armor steel on the boat we're little eggshells, designed to roar In, let fly a Sunday punch, and then get the hell out, tigging to dodge the shells but again I'm getting ahead. "We went out to the islands last fall. I was commanding officer of the squadron I'd picked every off-icer and man in the outfit from vo-lunteerstold them we were heading for trouble. So they piled us and our six boats on a tanker. In late sum- - 'It'i a hell of a time to declare war,' and rolled over." "The message said I was to come on down to the Commandantla," continued Bulkeley. "It's an old thick-walle- d Spanish building, and when I got there, Admiral Rock-well, who was in command at Ca-vft-and Captain Ray, his chief of staff, were already dressed. Dawn was Just beginning to break over Manila Bay, and the Admiral was watching the sky. They ought to be here any minute,' he saia. And then he told me to prepare my six boats for war stations. They were going to send us over to Bataan at the naval base In Marlvelet Harbor, Just opposite Corregidor." "I was prepared for the war," said Kelly, the squadron's second in com-mand, a tall blond lieutenant with quick blue eyes. "I'd heard about the secret operation orders what the fleet would do under any of three eventualities, so the night be-fore I'd gone over to the Army and Navy Club at Manila and put aboard the thickest charcoal-broile- d filet mignon I could buy there, plus French fries and a big tomato with Roquefort dressing, finishing off with brandy and a cigar. I figured I'd at least have them to remember. "We spent that first day fully manned, anticipating a bombing at-tack. Five of the boats were dis-persed along the shore about a hun-dred yards apart the sixth was pa-trolling. All day we loaded them with food cans of corned beef, Vi-enna sausage, vegetables, and canned potatoes don't laugh at that, it's better than rice canned fruit, fruit, coffee. "I saw the first planes about noon flying out over the bay. At first I thought they were ours, but after about a minute our shore batteries opened up. They were coming over at 20,000 and of course immediately we shoved all our boats off and out into the bay. But we heard noth-ing drop. It was probably Just a reconnaissance raid feeling us out. "Of course there were all kinds of rumors that Zamboanga and Davao, down in the southern archi-pelago, had been taken. Also that our navy patrol planes had gone up to Northern Luzon to intercept Jap transports gathering off Aparri there. We even heard our aircraft tenders had been surprised and tak-en, but that one proved false. Yet that morning, nothing was sure. "About three o'clock orders came from Squadron Commander Bulke-ley to send three boats, under my command, over to Mariveles on Ba-- FOREWORD This story was told ma largely ta the officers' quarters of the Motor Tor-pedo Boat lUtlon at Melville, Rhode Island, by four young officers of MTB Squadron 3, who were all that was left of the squadron which proudly sailed for the Philippines last sum-me- r. A fifth officer. Lieutenant Hen-r- y J. Brantlngham, has since ar-rived from Australia. These men had been singled out from the multitude for return to America because General MacArtmir believed that tha MTB's had proved their worth In warfare, and hoped that these officers could bring back to America their actual battle expe-rience, by which trainees could bene-fit. Their Squadron Commander, Lieu-tenant John Bulkeley (now Lieutenant-Comm-ander) ef course needs no IntroducUon, as he Is already a na-tional hero for his part In bringing MacArthur out of Bataan. But be-cause the navy was then keeping him so busy fulfilling his obligations as a national hero, Bulkeley had to delegate to Lieutenant Robert Boi-ling Kelly a major part of the task of rounding out the narrative. I think the reader will agree that the choice was wise, for Lieutenant Kelly, In addlUon to being a brave and competent naval officer, has a sense of narrative and a keen eye for sig-nificant detail, two attributes which may never help him In battle but which were of great value to this book. Ensigns Anthony Akers and George E. Cox, Jr., also contributed much vivid detail. As a result, I found when I had finished that I had not Just the ad-venture story of a single squadron, but In the background the whole trag-ic panorama of the Philippine cam-paignAmerica's little Dunkirk. We are a democracy, running a war. If our mistakes are concealed from us, they can never be corrected. Facts are frequently and properly withheld in a war, because the enemy would take advantage of our weak-nesses If he knew them. But this story now can safely be told because the sad chapter Is ended. The Japa-nese know Just how Inadequate our equipment was, because they de-stroyed or captured practically all of It. I have been wandering In and out of wars since 1939, and many times before have I seen the sad young men come out of battle come with the whistle of flying steel and the rumble of falling walls still In their ears, come out to the fat, well fed cities behind the lines, where the complacent citizens always choose from the newsstands those papers whose headlines proclaim every skir-mish as a magnificent victory. And through those plump cities he sad young men back from battle wander as strangers in a strange land, talking a grim language of real-Is-which the smug citizenry doesn't understand, trying to tell of a tragedy which few enjoy hearing. These four sad young men differ from those I have talked to in Eu-rope only in that they are Americans, and the tragedy they bear witness to Is our own failure, and the smug-ness they struggle against is our own complacency. waff taan and report to the submarine tender there for food, water, and torpedoes, and to remain on the ready available to go out and at-tack anything he ordered us to. By five o'clock we cast off. We had some passengers to deliver at Cor-regidor, so it was eight and plenty dark before we were outside the mine fields, feeling our way into Mariveles. We thought we knew those mine fields, but in pitch-darknes- s, with the mine-fiel- d lights turned off and of course no lights on our boats now, it was something else again. "At this point the army took over. They heard the roar of our motors and thought it was Jap planes. Searchlights began winking on all over Bataan, feeling up into the sky for planes our motors were echoing against the mountains on Bataan, so they couldn't tell where the noise was coming from. Every artillery post for twenty-si- x kilometers around went on the alert, and for a few minutes it was a question whether we were going to be blown to hell by a mine or by one of our own shore batteries. "But finally we snaked through, tied up alongside our sub tender, and then its skipper delivered a piece of nasty news. Told us he had orders to get under way Just before daylight, out to sea didn't know just where they were sending him maybe south, maybe the Dutch East Indies, anyway, he wouldn't be back. "So then the fun began. There we were no base, rations for only ten days, and a big problem in how we were to live ourselves and what in hell we would do with the boats when the planes came over. In ad-dition to which, we were almost flat out of gas. and what would we do for fuel to fight this war? "Pretty soon we began finding some of the answers. For instance just around the coast from Mari-veles in Sisiman Cove was a native village practically abandoned ex-cept for a few families about twen-ty nipa huts in alL We moved in and took over. A nipa hut is a lit-tle contraption single room with thatched roof and sides up off the ground four or five feet on bamboo stilts. Under it the natives keep their pigs and chickens. The floor is split bamboo, and never very tight, so the crumbs and small pieces of garbage dropped on it can sift down into the pigs and chickens. In one corner of the hut is a sandbox, and on this sand they build a fire for cooking. There never is a chim-neythe smoke just goes out the windows or through the floor cracks. no BE CONTINUED) "They expect you to stay there until you're killed or captured." mer, we snuck through the Panama Canal one night, and were steaming up Manila Bay In the early fall. "On my way back here last week, I had a few hours in Honolulu, and the boys were still talking about how they'd been surprised on De-cember 7. I don't know why they should have been, because they got the same warning we did in Manila. That war was maybe days, perhaps even only hours, away. The only thing that surprised us was that it was Pearl Harbor that got the first attack, not us. "We'd been following the negotia-tions. We knew we needed sixty more days to put the islands in shape for decent defense. We need-ed planes and tanks. Most impor tant of all, at least half the Filipino army had never had a uniform on until a few weeks before the fighting started. They needed training, and Washington knew this just as well as we did, and of course didn't want war. "But now for a little geography. Here's Manila Bay a big beautiful harbor twenty miles across. At the far end Is the city of Manila, and if you were suddenly put down there, you'd think you were in Los Angeles, until you noticed the faces of the people. At the mouth of Manila Bay, the upper lip is Bataan Peninsula and the lower one is Batangas, with the Rock Corregidor Island a hard little pill between the two lips. And we are stationed at Cavite, the big American naval base on the lower side of the bay, about halfway be-tween Manila and the harbor's mouth. "We're under orders of Admiral Hart, who is Commander in Chief of the Far Eastern fleet, based there. Only how long will we stay? Because as war drew close, rumors began to fly. If it came soon, we might be getting out because we didn't have air superiority. The Japs could run down from Formosa and bag our little Asiatic fleet, so maybe we'd be pulling out for the southern islands, waiting for aircraft carriers which would bring fighters to pro-tect us. 'The night of December 8 we were all asleep in the officers' quarters at Cavite," Bulkeley went on, "when my telephone rang about three in the morning and I first learned the Japs had struck at Pearl Harbor." "When they shook me, I didn't believe it," said Ensign Akers. He's a tall, dark silent Texan. "I was sure they were kidding. I just said. CHAPTER I "You don't understand," said the young naval officer, "we were ex-pendable." He was very earnest as he lolled on the bunk in the officers' quarters of the torpedo station at Newport, along with the other three officers who had also just got out of the Philippines. I admitted I didn't understand. "Well, it's like. this. Suppose you're a sergeant machine-gunne- r, and your army is retreating and the enemy advancing. The captain takes you to a machine gun covering the road. 'You're to stay here and hold this position,' he tells you. 'For how long?' you ask. 'Never mind,' he answers, 'just hold it.' Then you know you're expendable. In a war, anything can be expendable money or gasoline or equipment or most usually men. They are expending you and that machine gun to get time. They don't expect to see ei-ther one again. They expect you to stay there and spray that road with steel until you're killed or captured, holding up the enemy for a few min-utes or even a precious quarter of an hour. "You know the situation that those few minutes gained are worth the life of a man to your army. So you don't mind it until you come back here where people waste hours and days and sometimes weeks, when you've seen your friends give their lives to save minutes-r-" "Look, never mind about that," said Lieutenant John Bulkeley, the senior officer. "People don't like to hear about that I've learned that In the week I've been back. Let's start at the beginning. And first a word about us. "We four are what is left of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron three. Last fall there were six little boats and about a dozen men to a boat Each one is a plywood speedboat seventy feet long and twenty feet wide, pow-ered by three Packard motors which can send her roaring over the top of the water about as fast as a Pack-ard automobile ever gets a chance to travel on a highway. So fast in fact that those motors have to be changed every few hundred hours. They should be, but what happens to that pretty theory in a war is an-other story we lost every spare mo-tor when our bases were bombed, and some of those in the boats had to do quadruple their allotted term before the boats were lost but that's getting ahead of the story. 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