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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH Aborigines of Australia Still Live in Crude State A ?eJrjL Although the white colonization of Australia began in 1788, the majority of its aborigines still do not know how to cultivate land, make THEY WERE WHITE FOREWORD This story wai told me largely In the officers' quarter o t the Motor Torpedo Boat station at Melville, Rhode Island, by four young officers of MTB Squadron S, who were all that was left of the squadron which proudly sailed for the Philippines last summer. A fifth officer. Lieutenant Henry J. Brantingham, has since arrived from Australia. These men had been singled out from the multitude for return to America be cause General MacArthur believed that the MTB's had proved tjieir worth in warfare, and hoped that these officers could bring back to America their actual battle experience, by which trainees could benefit. Their Squadron Commander, ant John Bulkeley (now Lieuten- Lieutenant-Commande- of course needs no Introduction, as he is already a national hero for his part in bringing MacArthur out of Bataan. But because the navy was then keeping him so busy fulfilling his obligations as a national hero, Bulkeley had to delegate to Lieutenant Robert Bolling 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 addition to being a brave and competent naval officer, has a sense of narrative and a keen eye for significant detail, two attributes which may never help him in battle but which were of gTeat 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 thatI bad not just the adventure story of a single squadron, but in the background the whole tragic panorama of the Philippine campaign America's little Dunkirk. We are a democracy, running a war. If our mistakes are concealed from us, Facts they can never be corrected. are frequently and properly withheld in a war, because the enemy would take advantage of our weaknesses if he knew them. But this story now can safely be told because the sad chapter is ended. The Japanese know just how Inadequate our equipment was, because they destroyed 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 skirmish as a magnificent victory. And through those plump cities the sad young men back from battle wander as strangers in a strange land, talking a grim language of realism which the smug citizenry doesnt understand, trying to tell of a tragedy which few enjoy bearing. These four sad young men differ from those I have talked to in Europe only in that they are Americans, and the tragedy they bear witness to is our own failure, and the smugness they struggle against is our own complacency. CHAPTER I You dont understand, said the young naval officer, we were expendable. 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 didnt understand. Well, its like this. Suppose youre a sergeant machine-gunneand your army is retreating and the enemy advancing. The captain takes you to a machine gun covering the road. Youre 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 youre 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 dont expect to see either one again. They expect you to stay there and spray that road with steel until youre killed or captured, holding up the enemy for a few minutes 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 dont mind it until you come back here where people waste hours and days and sometimes weeks, when youve seen your friends give their lives to save minutes Look, never mind about that, said Lieutenant John Bulkeley, the senior officer. People dont like to hear about that. Ive learned that in the week Ive been back. Lets 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, powered by three Packard motors which can send her roaring over the top of the water about as fast as a Packard 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 another story we lost every spare motor 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 thats getting ahead of the story. Each boat is armed with four r, , Pattern 16, It No. 1445 Is In sizes 10, 12. 14, 12 dress takes 3 yards and 20. Size material, jaeaet IVfc yards. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders lor a lew of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: .features clothes or build a shelter other than a windbreak, says Colliers.! These people have always been looked upon as little more than animals. In fact, up to 40 years ago, a settler merely required a permit to shoot, poison or otherwise kill them at wilL Its a hell of a time to declare torpedo tubes, and four SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEFT. machine guns firing in pairs from war, and rolled over. 149 New Montgomery Street Calif. San Francises each side. As for armor, well, The message said I was to come Enclose 20 cents In coins for each theres a story on that. The first on down to the Commandantia, pattern desired. time we tangled with the Japs one of continued Bulkeley. Its an old Size... Pattern No our machine-gunner- s and kept crouching Spanish building, Name down behind the shield which rose when I got there, Admiral RockAddress just under the noses of his guns. well, who was in command at CaWhen it was over we asked him vite, and Captain Ray, his chief of why he hadnt stood up to fire. staff, were already dressed. Dawn Double Knockouts Hell, he said, I didnt want to was just beginning to break over Of the seven professional Amerget nicked. I was crouching down Manila Bay, and the Admiral was ican prize fights that ended in a behind that armor. Then we had to watching the sky. They ought to double knockout, the last occurred tell him that shield was inch plyw- be here any minute, he said. And ood-keeps during the welterweight bout bethen he to me told six prepare my spray out of your eyes, tween Pat Kissinger and A1 Dor-la- c but it cant stop anything the Japs boats for war stations. They were Mothers Tree in Memorial Hall in Kansas to to send us at over Bataan of an ounce send. There isnt going might Cowhite on The birch has been of1941, 7, City April says armor steel on the boat were little the naval base in Mariveles Harbor, chosen In both lliers. the third ficially by the American round, to roar let just opposite Corregidor." in, eggshells, designed as the tree to association simullanded blows knockout boys Forestry I was prepared for the war, said fly a Sunday punch, and then get the taneously and went down together be planted as a memorial to a hell out, rigging to dodge the shells Kelly, the squadrons second in comfor the count of ten. mother. but again Im getting ahead. mand, a tall blond lieutenant with blue about heard We went out to the islands last quick eyes. Id fall. I was commanding officer of the secret operation orders what the squadron Id picked every off- the fleet would do under any of three eventualities, so the night beicer and man in the outfit from volunteers told them we were heading fore Id gone over to the Army and o they piled us and our Navy Club at Manila and put aboard for troub. filet six boats on a tanker. In late sum- - the thickest charcoal-broile- d mignon I could buy there, plus French fries and a big tomato with Dozens of Uses Roquefort dressing, finishing off with brandy and a cigar. I figured Id YT'OULL find dozens and dozens at least have them to remember. of uses for this sleek sports enWe spent that first day fully semble. Grand for your figure manned, anticipating a bombing atand summer sports. tack. Five of the boats were dispersed along the shore about a hundred yards apart the sixth was paAnd Nary a Drop Was trolling. All day we loaded them with food cans of corned beef, ViSpilt Along the Way enna sausage, and vegetables, The U. S. Government has asked us all canned potatoes A young Scottish couple had timewodont laugh at to do everything possible to conserve fuel. that, its better than rice canned moved from their country cottage By serving Kellogg's Corn Flake frequently into a modem house. All their rk-other fruit, fruit, coffee. you can effect important savings in I saw the first planes about noon goods and chattels arrived safely with exception of the rain tub. gas and other cooking fuels. flying out over the bay. At first I were but after thought they ours, After the wife had pleaded with about a minute our shore batteries her husband that this was an asset opened up. They were coming over to her household, he said he would at 20,000 and of course immediately go and get it that evening. we shoved all our boats off and As he had not arrived home at out into the bay. But we heard noth12:30 a. m. his wife became woring drop. It was probably just a ried. At 1:15 a. m. the back gate reconnaissance raid feeling us out. slammed and there was a dull Of course there were all kinds of thud. In a few seconds the door rumors that Zamboanga and opened to reveal a dishevelled Davao, down in the southern archi7L. and perspiring man, who rehad been Also taken. that marked: pelago, Rallogg't Cora Flakes are reour navy patrol planes had gone up stored te WHOLE ((All Ee, lass, Ave ad Job wit HALVES o! Thiaoiia to Northern Luzon to intercept Jap Thee didnt tell me it were (Vitemia Bi), Mode sad Iroa. mm asm mmn transports gathering off Aparri toob. there. We even heard our aircraft full o watter. tenders had been surprised and taken, but that one proved false. Yet that morning, nothing was sure. About three oclock orders came from Squadron Commander Bulkeley to send three boats, under my command, over to Mariveles on Bataan and report to the submarine tender there for food, water, and to there you expect stay They torpedoes, and to remain on the or until youre killed captured. ready available to go out and atmer, we snuck through the Panama tack anything he ordered us to. By Canal one night, and were steaming five oclock we cast off. We had some passengers to deliver at Corup Manila Bay in the early fall. On my way back here last week, regidor, so it was eight and plenty I had a few hours in Honolulu, and dark before we were outside the the boys were still talking about mine fields, feeling our way into We thought we knew how theyd been surprised on De- Mariveles. cember 7. I dont know why they those mine fields, but in with the mine-fiel- d should have been, because they got lights the same warning we did in Manila. turned off and of course no lights That war was maybe days, perhaps on our boats now, it was something even only hours, away. The only else again. TKa Glass Top Seal Fruit Jar Cap for Homo Canning was developed At this point the army took over. thing that surprised us was that it as a Wartime product to conserve metal. It consists of a Metal Band, was Pearl Harbor that got the first They heard the roar of our motors Lid and Rubber Ring. Gian and thought it was Jap planes. attack, not us. Wed been following the negotia- Searchlights began winking on all Because of the difference In the nature of these three materials this tions. We knew we needed sixty over Bataan, feeling up into the sky Cap must bs used differently from aay other fruit Jar cap. If need properly more days to put the islands in for planes our motors were echoing against the mountains on Bataan, it will give excellent results. If not shape for decent defense. We need- so they couldnt tell where the noise ed planes and tanks. ' Most imporused properly, results will bs bad. InEvery artillery tant of all, at least half the Filipino was coming from. cluding failure to seal and breakage af for twenty-si- x kilometers around army had never had a uniform on post jam. Following are simple instructions until a few weeks before the fighting went on the alert, and for a few for use of the Gian Top Beal Cap and a was minutes it whether question started. They needed training, and must be followed carefully. we were to be to blown hell going Washington knew this just as well a or mine of one own our by as we did, and of course didnt want by 1. Do NOT nse In Oven Canning. shore batteries. war. we But snaked finally through, But now for a little geography. 2. If processing, (eookhag in jar), Heres Manila Bay a big beautiful tied up alongside our sub tender, 1 inch space in top of jar. If nsing leave harbor twenty miles across. At the and then its skipper delivered a inch space in top leave kettle, open of nasty news. Told us he far end is the city of Manila, and if piece of to orders had under jar. get way just you were suddenly put down there, before out to sea didnt youd think you were in Los Angeles, know daylight, 3. Fit rubber around projection on just where they were sending until you noticed the faces of the bottom side of lid. him the Dutch maybe south, maybe people. At the mouth of Manila Bay, he East wouldnt Indies, anyway, the upper lip is Bataaa Peninsula 4. Place lid so rubber lies between and the lower one is Batangas, with be back. lid and top edge of jar. So then the fun began. There the Rock Corregidor Island a hard no we were for rations base, only little pill between the two lips. And 5. Torn bands tight, then loosen we are stationed at Cavite, the big ten days, and a big problem in how slightly (about V turn). Bands must to we were live ourselves and what American naval base on the lower fit in we hell would do with the boats loosely during processing (cooking). side of the bay, about halfway beThis is Important and must be done to tween Manila and the harbors when the planes came over. In addition to which, we were almost flat insure best results. If using Open Ketmouth. of gas, and what would we do screw bands tight as soon as jar is tle, Were under orders of Admiral out for fuel to fight this war? filled. who is Commander in Chief Hart, Pretty soon we began finding of the Far Eastern fleet, based 6. After processing, screw bands tight there. Only how long will we stay? some of the answers. For instance around the coast Marifrom just to Because as war drew close, rumors complete seal. Remove banda 12 hours veles in Sisiman Cove was a native For nafnt aaapUta to it If came began fly. after canning. soon, we instruettwu Mid Isa abandoned excflote for jrour copy of might be getting out because we villagefor practically a few families twenabout Boil Bkoo Book to tho cept didnt have air superiority. The Japs Boll Brat Kars Ceaipaajr, DO NOT TURN FILLED could run down from Formosa and ty nipa huts in all. We moved in Mandat I4iaaa U. S. A. took over. A nipa hut is a litand JARS UPSIDE DOWN bag our little Asiatic fleet, so maybe contraption single room with wed be pulling out for the southern tle thatched roof and sides up off the islands, waiting for aircraft carriers which would bring fighters to pro- ground four or five feet on bamboo stilts. Under it the natives keep This laformatloa Is published la tha latarast af home tect us. their and chickens. floor is The pigs lad preservation snd eonservmlioa af faod. aaaaiag The night of December 8 we were bamboo, and never very tight, all asleep in the officers quarters split so the crumbs and small pieces of at Cavite, Bulkeley went on, when dropped on it can sift down my telephone rang about three in garbage into the pigs and chickens. In one the morning and I first learned the corner of the hut is a sandbox, and MUNCIt. INDIANA, U. S. A. Japs had struck at Pearl Harbor. on this sand they build a fire for When they shook me, I didnt There never is a chimbelieve it, said Ensign Akers. Hes cooking. the smoke just goes out the ney a tall, dark silent Texan. I was windows or through the floor cracks. sure they werw kidding. I just said. 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