Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1942 — Page 4

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| | i WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (U.P) ~ CGien. Douglas MacArthur will rewith his troops op Bataan la despite demands here at he be “rescued” from the ppines for an important comd elsewhere, informed quarters lieved today. : The fall of Singapore and the pos- . sibility of another shakeup in the ; ted nations Pacific command w headed by Gen. Sir ArcHibald ayell has again focused attention Gren. MacArthur, the outstanding gist and most colorful soldier e Pacific battlefronts.

| Order From F. D. R. Needed "Tt probably would take an order

rthur’ out of there, and perhaps vent that wouldn’t do it,” said an

hur in their “shavetail” days, round’ the War Department it Vas indicated that no efforts would 1ade to remove Gen. MacArthur, east so long as his forces cone in their determined stand in ountains and along the jungle of Bataan peninsula. the defenders are forced back Corregidor fortress in Manila ay, the question may be re-ex-ined because the stand against he Japanese would then become a atter of holding out under siege, far less demands on Gen. Macur’s tactical brilliance.

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itary officials said there is g to indicate an imminent kout” of Gen. MacArthur's 10 ekis of resistance in Luzon, largPhilippine island, despite indis that a Japanese all-out asmay be unleashed at any hour. |The suggestion of Wendell L. illkie that Gen. MacArthur be

p proudest tradition of the arat a commander sticks with

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future for many of those involved.

thousands of lives, and the inevitable deepening of a bifter hate for that group of men and their way of greedy ambition that made this mass moveinent necessary. rors » o ” Others Remained

IT Is IMPORTANT to note, and not to forget, that Americans were evacuated in haste from only those parts of the Far East where the shadow of the Japanese militarist was falling long and dark; from Japan itself, from Korea, from Formosa, from ManchuKuo, from the Japanese-occupied areas of China, from Hongkong and from French Indo-China. My friend Eric, asleep in a canvas chair in his garden in ShangHai, will always remain for me a symbol of what has been inflicted upon foreigners in the Orient since Japan began to try to create what she ludicrously x her “New Order.” : Sunday, Oct. 6, 1940, knowing that I was soon to leave $Shanghai, I piled my unknowing and happy dogs (three of them) into the back seat of my car and drove out Hungjao Road to make a last visit to Eric’s home. Hungjao Road was Shanghai's fashionable residence district. It was outside the foreign-controlled area, and to reach it one had to drive pasf, a line of scowling Japanese army sentries. The countryside lay serene and quiet under the pale October sunlight. Between the fine homes and spacious gardens and grounds were what, until the: Japanese came, had been fertile inesg vegetable gardens. B 4 the blight had changed then into abandoned barren plots, ragged with weeds.

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Eric the ‘Taipan’ ERIC WAS one of those much-

a “taipan.” In other words, he came ashore at Shanghai about 30 years ago from a freighter on which he had been second engineer. Shrewdly estimating the future growth of the port, he set up in business as a marine engineer and surveyor, and prospered and then grew rich. That, the .wealth, is what makes him a taipan, and people with funny twisted minds seemed to hold it against ‘taipans because most of them became rich through hard work. ; Eric’s Hungjao home was a mistake. He bought the land in the early spring of 1932, just after the armistice put a stop to the bloody and fruitless six weeks of fighting between the Chinese and Japanese, ‘which began on Jan. 28 that year and cost upward of 35,000 lives. Eric showed me his land and the plans for his home that spring.

Chapter XIV—Sad Exodus

THE FORCED evacuation of more than 30,000 American civilians from the Far East, which began in the autumn of 1940 may seem today to have been a relatively trivial thing when it is compared with-the fates that have befallen Honolulu and Manila .and other great popula-

But that movement, which at its time was the greatest calamity that had befallen any mass group ®f American citizens since World War 1, now assumes an historical significance, . The causes of that movement will help to make clear the fact that war with Japan was inevitable; , and the movement itself must be borne in mind when we come to make peace terms with Japan. She must bé made forever powerless to duplicate the conditions which arose in the Orient between the summer of 1937 and her sneak attack upon the United States in December of last year. This first great exodus did not have to be accomplished under a rain of bombs or to the crackling stutter of machine guns coming out. of the skies, but nevertheless it involved haste and fear, irretrievable losses which collectively reached a vast and staggering sum, and uncertainty and the threat of penury in the

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«It involved, too, the pain and wrench of partings, the upsetting of

abused Shanghailanders-known as"

the investment; said there would surely be more and worse fighting around Shanghai; that in the end the Japanese would grab his property.

But he went abead. His wife did not like life down in the city; she wanted a few acres of garden and lawn. Their only daughter would soon be having her comingout party—they took pride in being able to give her the proper background. So they built in Hungjao, and also built a summer home at Jitis Hook, near Tsingtao. The" Iltis Hook place had a background of mountains and pines and firs, and a foreground of shining yellow sand and white-crested tumbling breakers.

The two places together probably cost about $120,000 in Shanghai dollars—then equal to about U. S..$40,000. The day of my last visit the places could not: be sold for neadly that total, and even if they could have been sold, $120,000 in Shanghai dollars then’ was worth only about U. S. $7000. That is the kind of “licking” Americans and Britons were taking in China and the Orient generally under Japan's “New Order. Then no one, except a Japanese, a German or maybe an Italian would have bought these properties. They had only to wait to get them simply for the taking.

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Momentary Peace

WELL, THAT Sunday afternoon when I got to Eric's walled place his Number One Boy let me in at the front gate and said Master was asleep in the garden. I went quietly through the house, across the terrace and down onto the lawn. There, in the shade of a maple tree turning gold and russet under the quieting .hand

of autumn, lay Eric sound asleep [3§

in a long canvas chair. His dog, lying on the grass-at-his feet, wagged a friendly tail. Eric’s only child, the beautiful daughter, married to a British official in Hongkong, had been evacuated to Autralia six weeks before. rs, Eric had sailed for

- Australia only five days before. I . had called on her the day be-

fore she sailed. “But all your beautiful things,

"your furniture, your silver, your

paintings—are you leaving it all here?” Mrs. Eric is ordinarily soft spoken and gentle. But this time she looked around her living room, then out across the terrace

to. her peaceful and beautiful garden, which she planned and planted herself, and her voice vibrated strangely when she replied: : “This is my home. I made it myself. We were to grow old here together. If I must lose my home, to hell with the stuff that's in i »

: 8 Farewell . SHE TURNED and walked with uncertain steps |, into the

wide front hall and hilndly, when -she started 10

went quietly away and arove thoughtfully back to town. :

There were Erics beyond count ;

ing all, over the Japanese-domi-nated portion of East Asia. In Tokyo and Yokohama and

Kobe there were hundreds of

American men who had been forced either to absndcn their business careers and their fortunes or send their families away while they stayed and ran the risk of internment camps or worse, and the practical certainty of being robbed, one way or another, of the rewards of years or of lifetimes of work. If they did not go to the United States, after Government advice, they stayed entirely at their own risk.

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