Show i N t 4 t n i i 5altl gake Ztibunt 'ON I 1 Japs Repair Build New General Marks Anniversary Aerial 136ses 3 Friday Morning April 9 1943 I I Of Bataan in Bitterness GENERAL litacARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS Australia (Continued From Page One) "Bataan was starved into peals for aid by Australian and leaders during the last lapse Our flag lies crumpled its three montl- for more men and proud pinions spat upon in the materials were made not in hope ter the wrecks of what were once that an offensive might be started our men and women groan and but in the belief that MacArthur sweat in prison toil our faithful has not even yet sufficient resources to hold the Japanese where Filipino wards 16000000 souls in slavery under a conquering they are t gasp in stateMacArthur's Implicit soldiery devoid of those ideals of ment was that the men on Bataan chivalry which have so dignified were starved into submission never beaten and that everything many armies" He ended his statement with his he does is pointed toward the day when the Stars and Stripes again prayer that redemption might rot too long fly over the Philippines to which beItdelayed in his statehe went to organize a Filipino ment was known that MacArthur meant to reafarmy and remained to meet a Jap- firm this pledge which he made anese attack -One year ago today the dim- after his dramatic airplane flight the Philippines: ming lights of Eataan's forlorn from "The and fluttered died" MacA- States president ofme theto United hope break ordered rthurs statement said Japanese lines and "Its prayers by that time—and through totheAustralia for the purIt prayed as well as fought—were proceedso I understand it of organreduced to the simple formula re- pose cited by hungry men through izing an offensive against Japan "The primary purpose of this erarked and parched lips 'Give us this day our daily bread' The offensive in the relief of the Philippines light failed "I came through and I shall reMrs ‘ ' Friday in his statement written in his own hand on a sheet of plain note paper MacArthur again revealed the depth of his feelings toward the Philippines and toward the army that had silently endured for more than three months of hardships of Bataan MacArthur's statement was the only recognition of the anniversary here It was a sad day for MacArthur and his who share his feelings about the loss the Philippines and who mourn lot him the close friends and the armies left behind PAINT with 21BCO tic ler -- turn" Housewife 7 soul-destroyi- ng NEW PATTERNS WALLPAPERS staff - 16 ‘ ea : 47:rim 1 1 1 West 1st South LS :' -- Phone '4' — —7' riga Co ' 1 --- '''''' 7''':''''-:----7-7-777-7-'-'77—'""1-"1—'''''- - 4-to first April 8 (UP)—The Japanese trying to provide stronger ail: protection for New Guinea-boun- d cunvoys are strengthening their bases on the north coast of New Guinea and constructing new ones it was reported Thursday night Wewak 530 miles northwest of Port Moresby and some 500 air miles up the coast from the allied-hel- d Buna area has become the main enemy stronghold replacing the twin ports of Lae and Salamaua which are almost daily targets for General Douglas MacArthur's planes (The Australian navy minister Norman J O Makin according to an Australian radio broadcast recorded by C B S in New York said Thursday that the Japanese have 60 airdromes in the island arc to the north of Australia and they "probably intend to use these airdromes to give their invasion (of Australia) forces cover' In the last two months allied aerial reconnaissance has shown that the narrow Wewak peninsula flanked by coral cliffs 150 feet high has been transformed into a fortress bristling with antiaircraft guns It was said that In a move to safeguard convoys headed for Wewak the Japanese also were working feverishly to build Madang 220 miles down the coast from Wewak Alexishafen 12 miles from Madang and other north coast points Into strong bases Fighter plane strips were reported being improved at Loreangau in the Admiralty Islands 300 miles northeast of Wewak and at various points along the coast of New Britain It was believed that Kavieng on the northwest tip of New Ireland island 500 miles northeast of Wewak was being built Into a main supply base for New Guinea an - FRANCISCO April 8 (UP)—Dr Herbert V Evatt Australian minister for external affairs Thursday warned that Japan has the most compact and possibly the wealthiest economic empire the world has ever seen and urged a careful watch on allocation of war materials fight Japan while the allies are engaged in beating Hitler SAN New Guinea Sites Prepared as Aid for Convoys Yearns to Free Enslaved People Pay Back Cruelty of Japanese Irked Over Failure to Get 'Go Signal' ' Australian Envoy Tells Of Pacific Dangers 1 -- ''''''''' ---- "By holding this empire Japan Is blockagring all the united nations" Mr Evatt who arrived here from Australia en route to Washington on a special mission declared in an address before the Commonwealth club here "The longer the blockade lasts the greater the difficulty of breaking it later on While the united nations accepted the general principle of 'beat Hitler Interpretative lowest depth Bataan surely was the nadir: The subsequent fall of Corregidor was largely anticlimax No incident in American history surpasses Bataan for the which came with the realization that this great and powerful nation was helpless to rescue the men who had held its oriental outpost so heroically 'on Their Way' Our forces still are some thousands of miles from the prison camps where the survivors of Bataan await "the day of salvation" but since last August and September they have been on their way One more year should see another long stretch retraveled At this point on the road back the latest dispatches emphasize two aspects of the situation in the Pacific First the Japanese are determined to maintain the offensive and are ready to spend men planes and ships freely to that end -7 4 - 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i i Mac-bitterne- Record Boosted 1 etilAA to C 4(1 - the Americans have such a tremendous qualitative superiority in the air as to make any Japanese offensive adventures highly costly perhaps so much so as to hasten the day of victory Both in the south Pacific and in Burma the Japanese are creasing their forces and their pressure The navy's communique of Thursday recording another brilliant American air victory over Guadalcanal also illustrates the aggressive temper of the enemy Out of 50 bombers and 48 fighters sent to attack United States shipping off that island of bitter memory for the Japanese our fighters shot down 21 Zeros five dive bombers 11 of other types This score coupled with similar heavy tolls taken by General Arthur's airmen from large Japanese air armadas trying to raid our posts on New Guinea seems to show: 1 The Japanese still are turning out more than enough planes to replace losses apparently there is nothing wrong quantitatively with their production 2 Apparently they are not very good planes or they are not flown by very good airmen Evidence Supports Claim Evidence piles up to support General Kenney's recent comment that Japan's "first-strinteam" —the few thousand carefully se- lected highly trained experienced pilots mostly navy men with which she entered the war—has been largely expended in the 16 months of the Pacific conflict This however does not keep the enemy's high command from sending its inferior planes and fliers in increasing numbers into the south Pacific to oppose the superb combination of men and machines the 'United States is building up there One wonders how long the morale of the Japanese air' force can withstand the reali- zation that any pilot who goes into battle has about one chance in three or four on any one day of swift translation to that company of shades the people back home worship in the Yasukuni military shrine in Tokyo On the Burma-India- n frontier again the Japanese are giving proof of their aggressive purpose Reinforced by fresh divisions and under a new commander not yet identified they have compelled the British-India- n forces of Marshal Wavell to relinquish much of the territory gained in the fourmonth-old minor offensive toward Akyab ' The British communiques insist that the withdrawal abandoned only territory that could not have been held in any case through the imminent monsoon season byt the fact remains that the allies still haVe to make a convincing start toward their avowed objective of reconquering B'urma and reopening the road to China Second - Some 8 German planes Including many iGermans again had tried to bomb from Reichsmarshal Goering's them out of the air but again had Focke-Wufailed to score with the experiment elite yellow-nos- e fighter squadrons were destroyed which apparently has been under in running dogfights incidental to taken in a desperate effort to find the American heavy bomber at- la means of successful combat tacks on the Renault works near against the American Paris last Sunday and the Erla bombers aero engine factories at Antwerp on Monday an official tally showed ' Thursday 4z1!i Amerwere Seventy bagged by '1111s:ican gunners firing from the bomb" ers and the other 10 were the 1 victims of the allied fighter es? Ii corts The official recapitulation issued j WITH THE I '' S 'LT: force air the 4-'' army by Eighth 1--showed 47 German planes shot st' It I down during the Renault raid at a 4 cost of four American bothbers ' and seven fighters 23 German fighters destroyed over Antwerp at a cost of four American bombOur INSURED ers and one fighter There was no t Savings PLAN breakdown of the figures to show i Makes It EASIER how many Germans were bagged for You to SAVE by the allied Eghter escort in each of the two raids to make the Rate of Dividend Dee 31 1342 total of 10 destroyed v In each instance the American 41 bombers and escorts were i while crcssing the continental coast engaged all the way i In to their targets and followed Shirt Saving Today back to the channel coming home L - By Norman Bell cute the war against Japan "Unfortunately" Dr Evatt commented "it often depends on others 'down the line' to assess what is needed to put into effect such a corollary program If Japan is allowed sufficiently long to retain possession of the ravished territories the future of the Pacific on your coast and ours will be dark indeed" Dr Evatt praised General Douglas MacArthur as "the greatest exploiter of air power in this war" and described the general as "a man of sufficient imagination and courage to scrap every rule of war which would not work out in the new situation presented by new types of warfare" i Buttegat Champion's ' - LONDON framework of that principle not only room but a positive duty to do everything possible to prose- ' 1 3 (Opinion) By Glenn Babb A P special iter General MacArthur's moving statement on this first anniversary of Bataan is a reminder that there Is a long and probably bloody trail back to be traveled before that tragedy is avenged But a shows that albrief stork-takin- g ready we have made a good start that there has been a great and heartening turn in allied prospects In the Pacific theater since that day when the military fortunes of !hed their the United States t I first' there was within the Jap Aerial Losses Prove Growing Allied Strength ' s Keep IFights With Yank Fliers Men Fit Cost Nazis 80 Planes On Warships April (iP)—Eightys returning pilots said the IDoctol |