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Show - , , 1 , - --- , - . 1.- - Li Le 'Salt ; Ilt:2h.,-- City, : ' , ' . - - THE DESERET -- . NEWS --Defenders D lataan. Laid . it pea is 'Next , - - - -- , . .. 77) mists le the mimed of two ertlelos by Mr. Nichol, analysing the important of 'feet and hereto defense of the Phil. - bombed and harassed these landings, and it was in this fighting that the Japanese battleship Haruna was sunk, north of the island. MacArthur refused to be pulled out of position, and only local ground forces were Involved. An attempted landing on Dec. 12 at Lingayen, within the range of the American troops, was hurled back into the ocean. Japanese aerial attacks continued for the next 10 days, on while the - Jap troops. many bicycles,- turned southfrom VIgan along the coastal road. Parachutists. according to one army airports spokesman, occupied near Tuguegarao and Hagan, an advance opening the way for from Aparri down- the Dish Cagayan Valley. In those bitter first two weeks 26 major aerial atMacAtacks -- were made--Ge- n rthur reported. Some of the most northerly American troops had to be withdrawn to the vicinity of Rosario to avoid being cut off. twines add the effect of this onexpeet. ite Jetta&les ettlittelf--E- 1) , ed wither& BY DAVID M. NICHOL March 21.--WASHINGTON, I - cam- jCDN)The - Students Protest Against Address By General , , , al. . 4 , Considine re. lii this rhapter el ble biography la 'Douglas MaeArther, fob while late the extreme Pacifistic attitude wit' tit meth el this country assumed wee of thief gaff. glotArthur I , ; 1 , , om, '''' 'Ltd 1 te;,..., - 41 ....:, ',', :: , t ':::'. i: k; 4. ,,, ,,:,.,,, - ' .::41; '4 i ,'''' v .,,, I, ' ''' ..., ' , - '.::,: i, , ,, if ' ;,4,..S....:,...-.!- , ?' 1 ' :' '::::":;:- , ,..... ,,, ''''',::, , ' ;.:::::-.,,- r.t,,,;, ,' ' , ' i.,', ::" fk , ''''''''-- . '?, , - ',..,,- , .,::, .'..,,,;,K i,.', ., , . - !, ,, ...,..,..44.,,,,-.,- 4e0; One of the public outbursts against this "strident militarist," was to reflect itself shortly when virtually the entire student anti-wa- r dembody.of the University of Pittsburgh staged an General of Douglas in theoappearance otistration protest against MacArthur ias a commencement speaker, . MacArthur atNonetheless, to 10,- an army of tended with medals clanking. T 000,000. nored goodmoredly the , A the end of his first year as 77: 4 sure of the atudents and twee , of staff, most of America -, an honorary doctor of laws de- haa either forgotten MacArthur addrea he . or'dld In not Want to be reminded further irke:d the assembled stuexorbihim and his , dent body by speaking of the. of demands on a treasury that War" as if it were a fact,' tant of- - de. Ile argued for - was feeling the pinch not absurdla premien. and he puncturedremember- 1 abroad - In pacifists with the sharp rapier of 1931 he ed. off September - sarcasm. his flowery sailed for France, the picture of r 'Pacifist habits do not Insure sartorial perfection in a gray peace or immunity." he lectured. ensemble,--- - Tough little general For the sentimentalism:- - and Weygand sad Invited himemotionalism which have Infest.' at the -French w guest ed our country." (he was tempt garnec we ed to say "thin caroms") agDevoured with curiosity, should substitute hard. common Arthur studied every hour of sense. We should at all times be the war games. He noted with prepared to defend ourselves. Inward appreciation that the , For the wealth of the - United too, were French, mounting States presents a tempting spec. armed forces and impletheir - - tacie which ultimately will lead ments- on wheels. studied to another war." new each new weapon, each APPLAUSE WAS NIL piece of armor, each new troop The applause, at the end. was movement, each new test of exBefore the war games nil. But MacArthur, a classic I plosives. were half completed he knew, 'hero during and immediately , for all time, that the prediction ,,er World War I. had become Ihe had made at home was true: as accustomed to a lack of adutthat the next war would be won lation as he had become to -of it. by the speeplier antagonist, by to the country best equipped "General. this may be super, the tools and devicesof Titive on ignorance My part," speed. arily Inquired Rep. Ross A. ColFRENCH HONOR MI lins during MacArthur's first op, Atterthe war games, he went . pearance- before the House apGeneral Henri with propriations committee, threo Gouraud. beside whose heroic weeks after being made chief of Blue Devils MacArthur's Rainstair. "but I would like to ask , and bow Division had fought, you whether you are a cavallaid a wreath on the tomb of ry officer?" France's unknown soldier. And the engineer MacArthur later he became the thirteenth who had savagely fought and American in the history of the , then made friends with the - - republic to receive the Grand the, Moron and the other Cross of the Legion of Honor. Philippine tribes! MacArthur... He visited old battlefields Wan l the fighting commander of the 'General Came lin and relived the seemingly immortal Rainbow Division of battling infantrymen. Thays of of the raids, and was he a eavalrymanT - the doughty trench men Now.. , whose the memory of the "Nomdr," MacArthur answered lie in French grave still bones politely. A PITIFUL ARMY yards. He toured on through - Poland, Czechoslovakia'and Hun-garThat same day, when he unwhere, In a burst of good. derwent the first of many feeling at a state ball, he went ar ordeals, he listed the strength Into the erenuous gyrations of of the army ai 124.277 officers got . a Hungarian , dance, and and men, spread over nine corps away with It. areas and Hawaii, Panama, Phil, bat-ti(tomorrowMacArthur's Ippines, China, Puerto Rico and ivith Congress over modernAlaska. the army.) izing are we toward Today building - ' , .. lt,t BY BOB CONSIDINE 1942, by International News.ervice Copyright, -- 7 I , 7 Philippine paign; which brought Gen. troops to the Bataan ,Peninsula as an organized army still able to hold off their nuattackers, merically superior falls naturally into five phases. phaselasted three days, beginning with Dec. 7 and, like the treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor, was chiefly an fields Air air operation. throughout the archipelago but were Luzon in the principally rs front targets. Japanese-bonibe65 miles away only most northern Philipover the pine outpost, ranged whole of the island but .coneenon trated Luzon, particularly on Clark and- - Nichols fields near from-7000,0- - 0Q '- flame-thrower- LlI'azi-LMor- - Igo--rot- s. 1 SURGEON SPEA KS We talkectwiUprIsonercL itnany categories ranging in agefrom 19 to 41. The most intelligible account of conditions at and behind the German front came from a tall, fair, army surgeon, Dr. Lurich 'Heuer a native of Berlin and , Meuse-Argonn- --. -- -, graduate of Jena - University. With Hitler's armies .since 1940and on the Russian front since the beginning of the Nazi invasion, Dr. Heuer was serving as a battalion surgeon in the 57th di. vision, near Kaluga, when he was Cr captured on Feb. 3. The German armies Ivere when fit very they began operations in Russia last summer," he said. ''But there has been a steady deterioration in- their condition as the war has gone on. Lice and frostbite gave us a great deal of trouble. 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After a week's lull, the ;,. iitt the- - cus,- - Mliell t :2 EllienthitiimelbenapielMIS Voi:s:h"i'nut'heu.PmoYe'sL'aenpuils'inurgl-- 1, well Inforrned ...:.,........,. tonvitited Acousicott ivin con. eine you that your deafness cacr; be corrected. Write or phone for appointment. Free Comparator Literature. INSTITUTE' I , ':,.:.4..,',:.:,.,:,,,,,. v1111 ACOUSTICON - lit ,, - . - r7r777..7.7::77..,:: ..... - 4 i k A i,- ' Vil No figures of MacArthur's strength have ever been disclosed, but the Japs are believed to have used more than 200000 crack troops in the effort, so far futile, to dislodge him. The num- ber is several times that of the American and Philippine forces. The communique declared: ''Chinese troops have gone into action south of Pyu. Chinese "Yesterday morning cavalry regiment working with our forces intercepted, a mixed enemy force of 400 infagtrymen and cavalrymen, with three armored cars. "There were more than 100 enemy casualties. Our troops are in good form now and have tak- en new positions. There is - no Japanese strength yet north- of - - DallyrtcwR, A privatC dernOtiereitton- - - Ba-ga- (Copyright.- 1442i By The Chicago - - his- - pledge-- - r - d --- The attitude of the Polish s was frankly Alphones Wadensky. mobilized to fight for the Nazis he hated, and Pavel Grabovsky, a conGerman scripted 'member of labor battalion, both maintained they sinTendered in hope - of joining the Polish army in- Russia. These youths said the bate of the Polish neople for Hitler Is undiminished. I -- 1' In stubborn axlments a low grad poisoning from foods your body dot's net tolerate is usually involved. Out food Wow reveal these foods, from which a diet tor heatith can be arranged for tV ........ , - to-- Kai-she- surreptitiously iamong the Polish people. Conditions at the receiving camp were quite similar to those in the prisoner-of-wa- r camp I visited, deeper in the rear several weeks ago. Food and quarter s were passable and the discipl- ine-was riot severe.-- prig-otter- 0111"----t..--- . . , , 7 ..0 " ;- t- 1,,... r ft nvc,, f ' opt, P.'. 4 lekV, .' ) I ,,,. 5:7ttr,C r, , ' 7 .7 'V - ) - -- - Pi . i, - '- 11 1)111.4' . .20 - . ,,;" sands of working elephants, used the Japanese to transport military Supplies in Burma, were .stampetted early today when fliers of the American volunteer group flew low to drop incendiary bombs among them. Presumably. a large number of enemy troops were crushed in the stampede, Fierce fighting raged around the vital point of Toungoo between Japanese and Imperial forces, while on the front south of Pyu, the Chinese expedition. am force in Burma went into action against the Japanese alongside British troops for the first time. The Japs were said to have lost 700 men in the battle around which was , reported Toungoo, continuing. DEPEND ON OFFENSIVEtilatlesarikeAlationAaLarpow.t, erful spring offensive is deeply implanted in the Gerinan mind. German morale is pegged to that Hitlerian promise and whether it rises or fall e depends on whether or. not der fuehree. lives By Fred Neher 11 , ) 864 t One 'seek Six months (paid in advance) Otte Year I paid in advance The abriCe rates mnply to Irtalr,-IdabMirada and Wyoming Ali other states al month. three-pronge- 1)v Nirmi RATES SUBSCRIPTION - Toungoo, one of the targets of the Japanese drive into central Burma, is on the Sittang River midway between Rangoon and Mandalay. The Chinese troops sent into Burma by Generalissimo Chiang under command of Lieut.- Gen. Joseph T. Stilwell, comprise the Fifth and Sixth Chinese armies. They are well trained and well equipped. Mdst of them veterans of four years' of fighting against the Japanese. Thou- si,- IRIL I For Chronic troublesrheumatism, arthritis. neuritis, lumbago, nervousnem stomach and bowel trouble, sinus trouble, chronic. colds, glandular disturbance, kidney and liver trouhle, and that tired feeling. etc. , v a- - II i ,,,i. . ' 1::)' '1.,. e' J e.."-- 'Cw-II kart' 's -- WITH THE BRITISH IMPERIAL FORCES IN BURMA, March captive Not too good," he remarked "I laconically. manyint-them herded together with little sanita-tioand inadequate' food. a peried of in December, the troops of my divi sion were under orders to kill all Russians taken prisoner. I suppose it was because of the difficulties of transport and the food supply. The Order was rescinded after two weeks." Hoffman asserted that the conviction was general among German soldiers that capture by the Russians means sure death. In some cases the Germans suicide rather than give themselves up, he said Hoffman complained of the severe censorship of the German feldpost: ''I wrote many letters to my family but few arriv' ed." Member of The Audit Burealf ot Ctreulanons nru A t I.I,1(,On Lx,pt nunavv 1,1 Entered at the posioffice at Salt I.a!to City as second vlip.s matter according to Act of Congress. March 3. he 'has 1 of ORDERED, TO KILL , V f 1yIt LIFE'S LIKE TIIAT The Vichy radio Ukday quoted, Italian sourcics as saying' that "11 ,naval Japanese squadron kWh had previously been observed in waters, west of Australia IS now' mlly a days voyage from the Australian coast." S2SO Volokolamsk. Hoffman said a frozen foot prevented him from joining in the retreat of his division, the 35fh. We. asked about their--captur- 01,1111;, W1L-L-YU- Explaining t hiseapture, near Gentian treatment tRussians. M. - Japanese disappointment at the escape was plain. On Jan. 5 the Philippine headquarters, now moving with the armies, reported one of the heaviest attacks of the war, a frontal assault on the lines northwest of Manila. More -than 700 Japs 'were kilted in section-i- t said. The attack was:: turned back, hut the orderly with- - t drawal,- the fourth, phase of the continued and some campaign, time between Jan. 12 and 16 the delendingforcesreached Bataan Teninsitlajn full strenKth. The Japanese first tried Mac- - . flank. Failing Arthur's right there, t1i6V- iiiTnIe'd to the left. onlyto find that MacArthur had made a powerful and unexpected attack on his own right, up- setting the whole Jap program. For the next two months the t line was relatively stationary. In what is the fifth phase of the fighting currently, it extends from a point north of Abucay, on the peninsula's east coast, west and south to a point mid- - way - between Marong and Ameriéan Fliers Stampede Jap's Elephants In Burma of his comrades. corn-mute- d had no re. Leaves are spite whatever. scarcely ever granted. This has a bad effect" DENWN TYPHUS Asked about- reports of the wide prevalence of typhus campaign His cheerfulness contrasted with the sullen manner of many Gen.,-Ino- by-Ma- j. Jonathan CLINGS TO POSITION What was left of the American ily. -- Lt. GertIWainwright. withdrew successor, slowly and stubbornly to a line east and west across Luzon through Zaragosa. Meanwhile, the trap that the Japanese hoped would destroy the American armies before they reached Bataan was being set. Near Atimonan on Lamon Bay, southeast of Manila, heavy frees were landed on Dec. 23. Others arrived the next day at nearby Mauban and between them cut through the Tabayas Bay, forcing the defenders north and west. Some of the most bitter fighting of the campaign occurred in this area, according to the reports. NEW TROOPS POUR IN Artillery duels and continual Japanese reinforcements marked 'don -- NEV ARRIVALS MANY A great many of the soldiers Ave met were reserves drawn from the deep German rear and in some eases had been at the front only a few days before For instance, Johannes Konradi. 28. said his division had been- rushed all the way from Le Havre, France, leaving there on Christmas Day Hein Indemann. a former in eight days-late- r lawyer, was captured deep in the after a train journey across German rear while on a forag the length of Europe, to collective' How Hitler is drawing on fae- - - ing expedition farms. He and 16 comrades. with tory workers was told by Anton t heir sledge-loaof potatoes, were attacked by guerrillas who took two prisoners and escorted I thPm to the Russian lines, but since the beginning of this March LONDON, BELLE ',1b 6Th listed the German ship Durazzo 3n1 the Italian steamers Bacinin Padre; Trottlera, Teresa Odero, Jobe Fissii, Alabama and Dentice, for expropriation, saying the owners owed the government towing, saVage, interi ment and other fees. Among the vessels are seV.eral whose 'crews tried to burn or scuttle them a year ago off Puerto Cabello. S300 RIVER LADY B . S250 THE expro- gestapo--might- MI - Poles and Czechs. Helmuth Hoffman, a youth of 22; who once was a member of t the Hitler jugend and was a stu- dent at Stuttgart, when mobi- lized into the army, talked with a frankness which would have ed. - - inpriating seven Axis vessels terned in her pbtls and will Junk or sink anothel, the heavily sabotaged German Steamer Seostris, by order of President - Harsanfl TO Coastance Ralwason E is OP LIFE A NOV. THE LIFE Or EL OP' ILIBENS- -Exalt do- - March Venezuela. bencoLiull Westphalian displeased the itt centrated. along Ole west coast of Luzon from Manila Bay north through Lingayen and to a point beyond San Fernancloand along the shores of Tabayas Bay and Lamon Bay on either side of the narrow link of land that con fleets the two large parts of the island. southeast of Manila. Shrewdly avoiding either of these areas and hoping, apparently, to pull the American forces north of the mountain barrier that extends roughly west from San Yernando,. the Japanese- began the second phase of The assault, Dec. 10, with landings at Vigan on the northwest coast. at Aparri on the north coast, and shortly afterwards at Legaspi in the extreme southeast of the island. who was working in a plant making wire for war needs when his final summons came on Jan. 14. lie asserted that among ) workers in his factory, which - - - CARACAS, -- assignment-an- - - Brest-Litovs- d transporta tion to regular concentration rear. Most in the camps deeper of them had arrived. from the western front within the past fortnight. The camps director, a Russian officer, told us about 7,000 prisbeen oners who had passed through since the- beginning of the war. ing d NEW SPRING - Bureick, ing about SO transports, appeared off Lingayeen Gulf and opened the' third phase of the campaign. All the landings except one at Agoo were beaten Agoo the Japanese were joined by the Anvaders.-- . coming from gan and were able to turn east towards the forte advancing in The Amer. the Cagayan-valley- CONCENTRATES FORCES Gen. MacArthur, as closely as can beg. established in the a- situated at Lipstadt, were between gO and 100 French pris- one, s. of war and a number of among German soldiers, Dr. Heuer claimed that he'had only ,ingle case in his division. However. he said, his German had told him the colleagues spread of this dread disease had become serious in the region he and Baronotweed vitch. The commonest ailments were bronchitis and influenza. Intestinal complaints were frequent. Dr.- Hauer said that rot KO men who went to the Russian front with his battalion, only 45 still were in action at the time of his capture. During the cold months an average of 50- soldiers monthly were hospitalized from freezing of the extremities while hundreds of lighter cases t. of frostbite required first-aid- . tention. The extreme cold was responsible for 35 per cent of all the rasualties in the months. Of the wounded, per centwere 'victims of rifle Sevbullets. and machine-guer0 times the gaps in Heuer's battalion were refilled with re- inforcements composed mainly of veterTrs who had been wound- - - -- In Hitler ' tor--ten- , Prisoners Tell Of Blind Faith Ten months of wearisome campaigning in Russia has left plainmarks on the ly discernible condition, composition physical -and fighting qualities of the German armybut blind faith in Hitler's promises of a spring of-fensive somehow keeps up the German hopes and spirit. Correspondents got a reflection of this in a visit they paid to a receiving camp for captive German soldiers at Moscow's suburbs this week.- There, at a barracks situated among forested hills vt'hite with snow, 132 three Poles, three Germans, Czechs and one Finn were await- - ATTACK BEATEN FRONTAL - -- d1:iI inel 0f Of BY A. T. STEELE N1OSCOW, March aft-Ju- 0 le-Susta- a By Hope -- Agimemmilli de - , I the-hor- s two-4da- ARMADA APPEARS In the dim morning light of Dec. 22, a huge armada number- - the----fir- s he-iv- - The authoritative Army and Journal admits that the Japanese objective of American air power" was "attained" with little regard for their own losses. The Japanese simply waited in the ikies until United States fighters and ers were forced down-- for4u4T and supplies and attackedthem on the ground. Navy graphic Soundphoto depicts the dawn landing of Japanese parachute troops In the region of the rich Palembang oil fiel d n on the island oi Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. On the ground are materiel parmh utes which floated earthward with the of yellow invadand miscellaneou s supplies for guns and In the Dutch East Indies ers from the sky. Palembang was t major-ci- ty there began the Invasion of the adjoining Island of Java, proper to fall, and from area has a population In excess of 45,000,000. whose comparatively-smal- l , 27 -- Manila.. First Photo Of Japanese Parachute Invasion Of Sumatra This the northern froni until DeC.. when the Japs broke through, later, Gen, MacArbut thur reported that a "majority" of his troops had been consolidated in Pampanga Province, The capital north ' of Manila. itself had already been declared t, an open city. New Japanese drives in the south. meanwhile, carried them around both shores of Laguna De Bay, a swampy lake, and .rather than see his forces uset lessly crushed between these two millstones the general decided to. abandon Manila and pull the American defenders north. By Jan. 1 MacArthur reported all available that defending forces are now united." Naval t units had destroyed the base at Cavite and moved to the island fortresses that guard Manila Bay. The following afternoon the Japs entered the capital citv, almost unopposed. Manila had fallen, but Manila Bay was still protected and the way to Bataan Peninsula was not cut oft. air force the 's - I , . ' Saturday, Alarch 21, 1942 - - n TrapsOL-Nippoillfords- , TT e---- ' - , . MacArthur The Magnificent:. - - , - .. - . ' ... - ' - . . 7-- k , géeldafe UNION-PACIFI' - - --- - - -' , t' 7,.., f,. - ,z , - I , ' RAILROAD C -- -- , , it Zel'Z'' "7 , L , '' ' I I - :' ! . , me |
