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three months ago. In that respect, officials Corregidor island and at her assignment—last ditch resistance and infliction of the greatest possible toll on the

enemy. ’ “The defenders did their job and did it well,” one official said. “The Japanese have paid a high price to control Manila bay.”

Honored by Roosevelt

Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwgight and his heroic men received only yesterday, before the Japanese invasion of Corregidor island, tribute for their gallant stand from their commander-in-chief, President Repeosevelt. “You and your devoted followers have become the living symbols of our war aims and the guarantee of victory,” the president said in a message to Gen. Wainwright. And as the news of what had appeared to be inevitable for many weeks became fact today, officers, enlisted men, high government officials and the man in the street spoke of Corregidor and her heroic defenders in reverent tones.

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There was no doubt here that every man had given his last ounce of energy to resist the overwhelming Japanese hordes. And the halls of congress will echo today with the

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"Japs Score’ Major Strategic Victory but Manila Forts -Would Have Been Much More Valuable Three Months Ago.

By SANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May 6.—The Japanese have gained a major strategic victory in capturing the Manila bay fortresses, but it would have been vastly more

valuable to them

said today, the garrisons on gister forts carried out their

same resolutions that| followed the fall of Bataan—“We’ll be back!” President Roosevelt revealed yesterday that hunger, disease, exhaustion and lack of supplies — those same allies that aided the enemy in the jungles of Bataan—had played their ugly roles on Corregidor, too. Shortly before word was received here that the Japanese had launched their long waited-for invasion of Corregidor, the president dispatched a message to Gen. Wainwright, telling of his admiration of the accounts of the heroic stand against the mounting intensity of bombard-

siege guns, “A Shining Example”

“In spite of all the handicaps of complete isolation, lack of food and ammunition you have given the world a shining example of patriotic fortitude and self-sacrifice. The American people ask no finer example of tenacity, resourcefulness, and steadfast courage. “The calm determination of your personal leadership in a desperate situation sets a standard of duty for our soldiers throughout the world. “In every camp and on every naval vessel soldiers, sailors and marines are inspired by the gallant struggle of| their comrades in the Philippines.) The workmen in our shipyards and munitions plants redouble their efforts because of your example.

Symbols of Victory

“You and your devoted followers have become the living symbols of our war aims and the guarantees of victory.” ? Officials who had hoped against hope for weeks that the impossible

theless, for the inevitable news that came before dawn this morning.

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The Japs took them—but not for long, Americ vows. Above, : the Ft. Mills. | barracks on Corregidor, now 3 housing valiant American prisoners. Center, Ft. Drum— looking like a concrete battle- § ship—helped guard strategic Manila bay, shown lower, in happier days when the U. S: fleet was “in.”

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“As Living Symbols Of Victory’

TRIBUTES PAID TO WAINWRIGHT

‘Outnumbered but Never Outfought,’ They Say of Corregidor Chief. WASHINGTON, Mey 6 (U. P).—

wright, commander of the lost fortress of Corregidor, is a 58-year-old cavalry officer whose friends say he has “never been outfought.” Gen. Wainwright once served at Ft. Myer, just across the Potomac river from the capital, and has many friends in the army here. At the fall of Bataan peninsula, which he commanded in the last days of its weary defense, his friends said this of him: “If he is beaten it will be because he was outnumbered, not because he was out-fought.”

“Skinny” to His Friends

Gen. Wainwright is a descendant of army and navy men on both sides of his family. He was born in Walla Walla, Wash., Aug. 23, 1883, and graduated from West Point in 1906. Immediately be was given the army nickname of “Skinny.” A friend explained the name: “He is a typical cavalryman, bowlegged, slim, crazy about horses.” During the Luzon and Bataan Wainwright's “skinny” figure was many times in the front lines, sharing the danger of his men as he fought brilliant delaying actions against great odds.

Fought Against Moros

He served in his first Philippine campaign the year after he graduated from West Point. The first cavalry, at one time commanded by his father, saw action against the Moros in the insurrection of 1909. One of his classmates at West Point

was the late Gen. Hugh Johnson.

He was on the war department

| | general staff when he returned from

overseas duty in France during the first World war, and later commanded the Presidio at Monterey, Cal. Mrs. Wainwright lives in Monterey. They have one son, Jonathan Jr., 29, an officer in the merchant

& \/marine.

But there was a slight catch in their breath as they handed reporters a short communique at 3:15 a. m. (Indianapolis time), some time after the fall of the bay forts had been flashed from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Australia. The communique, they said, would be the last to.be issued from here “for the time being” on the Philippine situation. It added nothing to the details already announced by Gen. MacArthur.

Target For § Months

Corregidor was the last fortified center of American resistance in the Philippine jslands, but scattered American-Filipino forces and guerrilla bands of natives will continue to harass the Japanese, Corregidor had been the chief target of Japanese bombs and shells for nearly five months. A recently returned veteran of the Philippine campaign said being on Corregidor was “like living on a bull’s eye.” Yard for yard, the 1300 acre island probably was the most bombed spot on earth, except Malta. During the early days of the battle of the Philippines the fortress

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real siege started March 24, about a! Corregidor began April 20 with high!shelling week before the fall of Bataan. altitude raids and heavy artillery|guns. Since then Corregidor has been un-| bombardment. But on that day the der almost constant aerial and ar-| Corregidor gunners, who claim a!Japanese stormed the fortress—Gen. world’s record in shooting down a Wainwright reported that for the

from 240-mm. (nine-inch)

On May 4—the day before the

The attack has been intensified bomber from 27,000 feet—more than third consecutive day there were 13

And the defenders’

during the last 10 days as the Jap-|five miles up—brought down wo separate air attacks. anese laid down a withering barrage enemy planes, of shells from 9.4-inch guns located |artillery returned the enemy fire.

On May 5, the Japanese got a foothold on the island by landing

‘NOTHING | CAN SAY’ —MRS. WAINWRIGHT

NEW YORK, May 6 (U.P).— Mrs, Jonathan Wainwright, wife of the American general who surrendered the Manila bay forts to the Japanese, feels there is nothing anyone can say, her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jonathan Wainwright, 5th, said today. Mrs. Wainwright, 4th, is nervous in view of the news of her husband, the younger Mrs. Wainwright said. Wainwright's son, in peace time a

merchant marine officer, is now on active duty with the navy as an

On May 3, there were 13 separatejon the north beaches and the end

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LONDON, May 6 (U. P.) ~The royal air force, carrying on the greatest air offensive of the war, returned to southern Germany during the night to give the important industrial city of Stuttgart another blasting. The air ministry said the docks at Nantes, France, also were bombed, and that fighters and bombers attacked airdromes in the low countries and in northern France. Four British bombers were missing. The R. A. F. had been over Stuttgart the night before, blasting such objectives as the Bosch electrical works, the Daimler Benz factories, which make airplane engines, heavy trucks and tanks, and the Hirth works, which make aircraft precision equipment. The second raid seemed to indicate a British determination to do as thorough a job at Stuttgart as they did in Rostock, one of Germany’s chief Baltic ports, which was leveled by 800 tons of bombs dropped in four successive nights.

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