Evening star., 1942-05-12
laps Claim Conquest
OF Philippine Islands
Is Now Complete
Mindonoo Reported
To Have Surrendered
On Woinwrieht's Orders
By the Associated Press.

TOXIC (From Japanese Broad
casts. May 12.-Domei declared in
French-language broadcast last
night that "the conquest of all the
islands of the Philippines by the
Japanese forces now has been COM
pletely achieved"
Quoting dispatch from Mindanao,
the japanese agency said Maj. Gen.
William F. Sharp, described as COM
mander in chief of the American
Filipino forces in the Mindanao
region, surrendered Internationally
Sunday night.
Thus, the dispatch said, -Four
days after the fall of Corregidor all
the American-Fili forces in the
Philippines have submitted"
On Wainwright's Orders.
Domei said Gen. Sharp's surrender
was in accordance with orders
issued by 1t Gen. Jonathan M.
Wainwright, commander in chief in
the Philippines" These orders, it
asserted, were communicated to Gen.
Sharp by Col. Jesse T. Traywick ION
behalf of Gen. Wainwright on the
afternoon of May g."
An earlier dispatch said Col. Wade
D. Killen, identified as Gen. Sharps
chief of staff, had been captured.
Domei also reported that Col. E.
II. Mitchell, described as COM
mander of the United States 6Ist
Regiment, had been captured by
japanese forces operating south of
Lake Lanao, SIS miles northwest of
Davao.
Was 30 Miles North of Davao.
Domei said Gen. Sharp's main
body of troops had held positions
near Malaybalay, 80 miles north of
Davao.
Col. Kiien was said to have been
captured during operations near the
ncrth shore of the island.
Four defending regiments, It
added, fed into the islands noun
tains and jungles, leaving their
pillboxes when the japanese pressed
a rapid advance on the Cagayan-
Tagoloan front, on the north shore.
Started as Enlisted Man.
Maj. Gen. Sharp went to the
Philippines more than a year ago
for duty with the field artillery
Then colonel, he has been pro-
noted twice since the war began
to brigadier general last December
18, and to major general on April 2.
He was born at Yankton, S. Oak,
September %, 1885, and entered the
| Army as an enlisted man in Com
pany G, I'd Battalion Engineers, in
1904. Commissioned from the ranks
three years later, he served in the
infantry for two years before trans
ferring to the field artillery.
He was in the Philippines from
1910 to 1913 as an officer of the
Second Field Artillery, and during
the First World War served as an
artilleryman in the Meuse-Argonne
offensive.
Officials at the War Department
could not identify Col Mitchell, also
mentioned In the Toxic broadcast,
but said there was no "6lst regi-
ment' in the Philippines.
1924 West Point Graduate.
Col. Jesse T. Traywick, jr, said by
the Japanese to have carried orders
from Gen. Wainwright to Gen.
Sharp to surrender, is Al, an In
fantry officer, and a 1924 graduate
Of West Point. His home Is In
Montgomery, Ala.
The War Department said 1t had
no information on the reported cap
ture Of Col. Killen.
Records of the War Department
show that Col. Killen rose from
private to his present rank. Born
in Colorado on November 8, 1894, he
entered the Army May 81. 1917 as a
private. After promotion to corporal
and sergeant he was commissioned
second lieutenant June l, 1918, and
first lieutenant october 8, 1918.
Col. Killen is a graduate of the
| Command and General Staff School
| at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, the In
fantry School at Fort Benning. Ga,
and the Quartermaster School at
PHILADELPHIA.