Milford chronicle., 1942-03-13
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~ By ROBT. H. YERKES ~

The Christian civilized world is
up in arms over the recent atroci-
ties INDUCED in by the Japanese at
Hong Kong. Observers who have
managed to reach the outside world
say the yellow devils, evidently in-
tending to emulate the cruelties of
their omrades-in-arms, the Ital-
ians and the Germans, recently
bound fifty British officers and men
hand and foot and then bayoneted
them to death. This is not the
first time the Japs have used hu-
man beings for bayonet practice.
When they took Nanking, they used
thousands of the male residents of
that city for this purpose, while
the women were raped en- masse.
In Hong Kong, we have been told,
certain sections of the city have
been turned into brOtheis for the
use of Nippon's seX-starved mill
tary, and not only Chinese and
Malayan women are being violated
by this mass of cOntemptOus swine
that passes for an army, but Euro
pean women as well have been
caught in the horrible net. The
heart of. this writer indeed grows
heavy when he realizes that soon
these hellish hOrdes may pour into
Australia, carrying with them their
diabolical acts of cruelty and rap
inc into that beautiful and fruitful
land.
/s/s/
AMERICA, AWAKE! before it is
too late; the enemy within is prov
ing as dangerous as the enemy
without. Three months ago we de-
elared war. Today we still are
going about our daily work with
out worry, without fear and al
most without anger. We should
not feel that way-we should, each
and every one of us, be boiling
mad; we have been given reason
to become angry, we have been
given reason to cuss, and we have
been given reason to buckle down
and work for victory. Still there
are those among us who say that
we are not in peril, and such
is foolish. These
people, many of them, are fifth and
sixth generation Americans. If
this country was invaded the ma
jority of them would fight until
the last breath left their bodies,
yet, through their Indifference,
they have been the best weapon
Hitler has ever used. They stran-
gle our war effort, they spread ru-
mors, they spread the doctrine of
defeatism; they are driving us as
nation down the road to Axis con-
troll and ruin, and the pity of the
thing is they don't know the error
of their ways. Let us pray that
the scales will fall from their eyes
before it is too late-for this ma
tion must and will survive.
/s/s/
Spring is at hand-the robins are
in field and garden, and trees are
in bud. The heart of the world
should be light, and would be light
if the shadow of the Beast" was
llOl dDIOdu. ENcly Oplih6 bhiS
writer has rejoiced at seeing the
advent of new life, but this Spring
is different, for we know that with
the Coming "of 7'ifife, death is at
hand-death for thousands of
youth, American youth, English
youth, Italian youth, Japanese
that should be dedi-
Gated to pursuits Of PEACE, not
war. Mothers and fathers in every
nation and cline are fearing the
coming of this Spring; they, too,
know that the season of new life
has become the season of death.
We are sitting on a volcano that
will, one day, erupt and the entire
world will be plunged into blood {
bath that will make battles fought !
10 date appear like child's play.
All of this because three men !
Hitler, Hirohito and Mussolini-
nave taken the fatal step from {
which there can be no retreat until /
hey and their people become as
me with NineVah and Tyre. n