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38TH MOPS UP JAPS ON BATAAN

Job Is Tough; All Sorts of : ~ Tricks Used. ~~

By JAMES C. LEARY Times Foreign Correspondent | CORREGIDOR, Manila Harbor, April 25—~With most attention on the fighting east and .north of || Manila, the chore the 38th (Indi- . ana) division is doing in mopping up Japs in the, Bataan moun- I tains and the Manila bay islands has been overlooked. But it is. a tough one and it has taken a measurable toll in American life and limb, 1st Lt. Maurice P. Murphy of New York, who Mr. Leary | has a hand in it, said today. Take, for instance, Ft. Drum, the ‘“concrete battleship” built on a low rock deeply tunneled near the southern arm enclosing the bay. After the landing, 5,000 gallons of

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Eventually 60 Japs were found suffocated, their coats pulled up over their heads. Three others had committed hara-Kini. Caballo, a small, twin-peaked island a few hundred yards south of Corregidor, was worse, Murphy said. Back a few years American engineers had flattened the lower peak and installed two deep mortar: pits, each 30 feet. deep and 40 square, with tunnels radiating from the bottom. A battalion of the 151st regiment cleared the rest of the island expensively, but spent a week futilely on the mortar pits. Every trick in the bag was tried, smoke, phosphorous and demolition charges, and long-range heavy bombardment, |

80 Japs Killed

‘But the Japs, bafricaded in the tunnels’ entrances, covered the rims of the pits with machine guns, catching everyone looking over the edge. We poured oil and it failed. The Japs made a banzai charge and 80 were killed, but 40 got back in the pits. We ran a four-inch pipe line from the tanker and pumped in 2,200 gallons of oil. That did it. The tunnels were cleared and the battalion withdrew. Next day a patrol” checked routinely—and several men were killed by fire from the tunnels. More Japs had swam in from elséwhere and the job had to be done over.

Still Finding Japs.

Today men were still blasting at caves on the south side, with phosphorous and bazooka shells and demolition charges. Corregidor, where paratroopers and infantry landed on Feb. 16, is still producing a score of Japs daily, said Maj. Gen. William C. Chase, commanding the 38th division. The tragic island, scene oF the “Ameri-| tan last stand in 1942, is a shambles. | “The rock” is littered with Japs! and Jap equipment, some of them messy flamethrower jobs, others the result of cave-picking. What is left stinks.

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Manila hill, the central eminence, fn whose tunnels Gen. Douglas | MacArthur and his staff took refuge in the siege, provided a similar refuge for the Japs. Their big feat was to try to blow up the hill and the Americans on top while they escaped from the north entrance. They used too much explosive and blew out not! only one entrance, but.their escape route. They are still there and the tunnel still smokes. The hill, solid rock, shook like jelly, Murphy said. Another cave full, number un-| known, blew themselves up a few days ago with a whole ammunition dump, shaking the island to its] roots. | There is a dump of American equipment cleaned up by the Japs! in 1942, compensated by the fact] that nearly 6,000 Japs have been | killed on Corregidor. Farther north more of the di-| vision is rounding up the Japs in| the Zambales mountains. The ef-| fort has become a game of tag with | Lt. Gen, Tsukada, commander of! the Jap airborne troops, who is still evading successfully. Gen Chase | wants him alive,

PLAN TO DECORATE SOLDIERS! GRAVES

Memorial day plans of the General Memorial association will be made at a meeting at 7:30 p. m. Friday in the east room of the war! memorial. : Members of all patriotic organi- | gations in Indianapolis and Marion | county are invited. The organization will make an effort to place flowers and an American flag on every soldier grave in the county. The Memorial day work was, begun: by the Grand Army of the| Republic with Col. Oren Perry, formerly superintendent of the Soldiers and Sailors monument, the last G. A. R. mail té serve as active president. ’ Present officers are James C.| Ahern, president, representing the American ‘Legion, and Ralph R. Maryinie, vice president, representing the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The ‘association also includes the Sons of Spanish War Veterans, Daughters, of '08, Service Star Le- || . gion, Navy Mothers; Boy Scouts, | ' Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, Jew=- | * . : ish War Veterans and their auxil- | ary relief corps, junior clubs, Amer- | ican ‘War Mothers and other patriotic orgnizations. |

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