Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1943 — Page 11

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By CLIFTON FORSTER ‘times Special Writer

The majority of the Filipinos are with us at heart, 1 know because 1 saw Manila under full-scale Japanese occupation. :

§ promises of § heaven - now to all those loyal to the dogma of “Asia for the Aslatics” the people - of Manila still showed pro « American feeling. Twice during 21 months’ in“ternment I got out of concen. tration camps once to visit my sick father, and again when I was ill. I managed to mingle with the Filipinos, and what I saw was good for my morale. Filipino farmers many times gave us foreigners the V-salute, under the eyes of Japanese guards. Both arms were raised in a V, and if the Japs noticed, the gesture could be converted into a yawning stretch. Others would come up, eye me sympathetically, and put two fin. gers, forming a V, against an ear. If a Jap got nosey about it, the Filipino would be merely scratching his head, » s ¥

‘Whistling Puzzles Japs

THEY SOMETIMES hummed their sentiments. A few, passing Americans under guard, would look straight ahead while humming a few bars of “God Bless America.” It nonplussed the Japs, who didn't know the tune but realized some thing was up. I even heard whistle a measure of “The Star-Spangled Banner” within earshot of Jap soldiers. ~Quisling politicos constantly harped on self-rule. Within a month after arriving, the Japs set up a complete Philippine puppet administration, and of course nothing ever was heard of President Queson's and Washington's work toward orderly completion of the establishment of Philip. pine independence by 1946. A honey-voiced gal got on their radio with promises and threats. She talked self-rule, too. But she said blood would be shed if “unpleasant incidents” didn't cease. .o. ow FILIPINO newshoys sometimes bawked Jap-controlled papers by

calling (n Tagalog): “Extra! Read the news reverse!” That

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“Even under the eyes of Jap guards, Filipino farmers often gave us the V salute”

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Jap defeats such as Kiska: and

when the Jap army. as at Buna, “made a strategic advance to the rear.” There were 850 of us in Los Banos, 40 miles southeast of Ma. nila, We arrived in boxcars. We had been picked from 3500 alied nationals in the big concentration camp, Santa Tomas, in Manila, Our task was to prepare this place for the rest, but we all signed a petition: asking theni uot to bring women and children here, This was malaria country, - Besides, we preferred to remain a solid bunch of ready, unhampered men, We got no answer to the peti tion~but the women and children never came. . 8 »

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LIFE IN Los Banos was not so tough, though primitive by our standards, A number of prominent Man. ila businessmen were among us a funny sight in our streamlined costumes of dungarees and bakia sandals, Two of them were on garbage-disposal duty. , They became a’ rather special object for our pompous Jap onptain of the guard-he would make a point of bumping into them, timing it just right, as they the street corner with their little cart. ; Their bows were comical, but if we saw the guard coming in time, we would forego the sight, warns ing: “Disperse, boys, here comes Porky!” Porky was Indeed plump. , He sported a long. cigaret holder, always blowing rings from his American cgarets, which had cost us $2.50 whien we could get them in Manila. Ne had protested to the Jap > andant that we didn't have to bow to American officers--why, fo theirs? He answered, “You bow!” | Porky saw fo that, ; uu»

General Rebuffed

ONE DAY Gen, Kuroda, com: mander of Jap forces in the Philippines, showed up to inspect our camp. He appeared in a late model Packard which one of the prisonérs recognized as his own, commandeered. S A group of us spled the gencral and immediately turned and be. gan walking away. We gathered momentum fast; in no time the

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yard and the road, were deserted. Soon another order was posted: “You must show Japanese officers proper courtesies. It has been reported that officers visiting this camp have ‘expressed dissatisfaction over the conduct of Internees.” The Pilipinos always were aware of our true feelings about the Japs. 1 remember once when a group of natives were watching a Jap, with rifle and bayonet, bossing an American who was putting up barbed wire around a camp. The Jap was giving him quite a verbal pushing-around on Just how to do the job. The prisoner finally straight.

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WE KNEW the war might be long; and though the bamboo

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derful rumor about repatriation,

In mid-July we got official notice that 27 of us were classified as prospective repatriates,

BY the time we left, in September; the others had relfeved us of our guilty feeling—they were that swell about it, fo All of them gathered In the

ened, poked the Jap with his °

pliers, and drawled: “Look-you do the guardin’, and I'll do the bulldin't” The watching Pilipinos rocked with laughter,

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$000 of : the are being worked Bgt. Gene Qyuriak, an from South Bend, Ind, end 1 witnessed a typlcal roundup here and learned of

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