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Show Women Who Saw Attack Speaker Here Eye Witness To Japanese Bombing At Pearl Harbor! Heard By P.H.S. Students "Someday all people will bow to the Rising Sun," was the information, informa-tion, given by a Japanese girl in Pearl Harbor to Mrs. Bert Pond. Mrs. Pond has been a guest of her daughter Mrs. Kathryn Mardis who lives in Tearl Harbor, Hawiia, and was there at the time of the first fateful bombing raid. She was brought to the Preston High aum-torium aum-torium by the Defense club to speak to the students Monday. This statement of the Japanese girl is not typical of the thoughts of all Japanese people but is typical typi-cal of a great many of them. The Japanese firmly believe that they are going to win this war and they are sacrificing everything in their power to help their country. Mrs. Pond stated that her first visit to Pearl Harbor was very pleasant. When she sailed into the harbor there were crowds of people there to welcome new-comers. After leaving the ship and walking down the narrow streets of Honolulu she was surprised to see that a great majority of the people were Japanese. When she arrived in Pearl Harbor she was amazed at the vast building program pro-gram that was going on. Each morning, in Pearl Harbor it is customary to send out a dawn patrol to inspect the surrounding territory. T.he morning of the raid this patrol had returned, having found nothing unusual. At 7:55, Sunday morning, the first bombs were dropped. People began running run-ning into the streets and excited children started crying for their mothers. The people were instruct, ed to be calm and go to the cans fields above the city where they would be better protected. The heartless bombers lollowea tuese defenseless people, machine gunning gun-ning them as they hastened to cover. cov-er. The bombing lasted all day and it wasn't until 11:00 p. m. that night that the last bomb was dropped drop-ped and silence reigned. All the hospitals of the city were full. Tents were set up and some of the wounded were taken into private homes. Army trucks were piled high with bodies of men one on top of the other. The roads were streaming with blood from the bodies. During the first week 2,600 men were buried. It was quite a simple matter for the Japanese to learn secrets concerning con-cerning the habits of army and navy men because fishermen on the docks saw each day every ship that went out and in. There was much excitement when a Jap sub was towed down one of the streets of Honolulu. It was found out later la-ter that it was made right ;n the heart of thct city. It is hard to believe that we are in total war. We must wake up to the situation before us. We must have more American men, ships, and airpbinos than ever before. be-fore. We' must wake up to the reality of war. A stamp or bond may save the life of someone we love. Let's save those nickels and dimes and save America. Mrs. Pond complimented the girls on the Defense SUimp campaign cam-paign they are now sponsoring in the school. A contest between the Junior, Sophomore and Senior classes will set a mark of if.'O stamp sale each week for Uiem to achieve. |