Evening star., 1945-08-20
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port Command ship were as frozen
faced as automatons and twice as
rigid. In their olive drab field uni
forms, short billed caps and huge
Samurai swords they might have
been little men from Mars alighting
on an earth ominous with the ten
sion Of fierce emotion held in check
The landing apron was trimmed
about with dense throng of 5000
or 1000 khaki-clad soldiers, incld-
ing every GI or officer who could
wangle his way into the closely
guarded field. For the most part
the spectators watched in grim
silence. The ENJOYS were uncere-
moniously ushered into staff cars
and driven swiftly away to their
quarters. down Dewey boulevard
along Manila Bay. They were soon
to crane their necks at the incred-
ible forest of masts that stretched
far away into the horizon in dark
silhouette against a sunset behind
the mountains of Bataan. Being
military men, they knew we'll what
such strength in this strategic area
would have meant for the homeland
had the surrender been delayed.
At the suggestion of Brig. Gen
Frederic H. Smith of Washington
commander of the 5th Fighter Com
mand, the pilot of the plane carry
ing the japanese, Col Earl T. Ricks
deputy commander of the ATCS
Southwest Pacific Wing, took the
Japs under the cloud deck over
Oklnawa at an altitude of 1.0OC
feet for a thorough look see at the
alterations in military landscape
since they last saw the island.
Most of the Japs peered eagerly
from the windows and chartered
among theselves with only the senior
officer remaining impassive. He
seemed indisposed and ate only q
hardboiled egg en- route, while his
stan consumed balogna, G. I. cheese
and bully beef sandwiches washed
down with tall drinks of pineapple
juice, according to Flight Clerk
John G. Hamilton, a private, first
class, from Baltimore.
The Japs racked up their cumber-
some swords and big brief cases in
the overhead luggage compartment
loosened belts and slipped of
spurred boots after the plane with
its escort of eight P-38s, took of
from the relay point of lie Shima.
Before the emissaries alighted
they asked If it would be proper
etiquette to tip the ATC crew. One
produced big roll of American cur
rency. The answer was no!
COlonePs Work Described.
Col. Mashbir, for the final fiv.
weeks of the campaign, operating
from headquarters here, beamed 6
psychological war at his former
friends among Japanese liberals
urging the overthrow of a degen.
crate military caste which has be.
trayed the ideals of the warrior
code of old Japan.
He urged liberals to reject the lie.
Of the military and embrace truth
before it was brought home to them
in fire and total destruction. Speak.
ing fluent Japanese, Col. Mashbil
asked If TOTO was not bound in hon.
or to destroy himself after calling
the naval defeat victory and re-
firing to escape the consequences
of his betrayal.
He pointed to the cowardice OF
Gen. Okla Okinosuki, who fled
Guadalcanal after enjoining troops
he left behind to die for the EN-
peror. He asked If these false wa,
lords had not besmirched the char
ter oath of the Emperor, proclaimed
in 1868.
1t is not known here If some
political upheaval in Japan forced
capitulation, but students of the sit
uation believe this may have oc-
CURED and will be followed by the
suicides of those who plunged the
nation into war of conquest. II
was certain, however, that degrad-
ed war lords are committed by
their own code of hara-kiri.
Aided Quake Rescues.
Col. Mashbir was a language ex-
pert with the American Embassy in
Tokyo when the disastrous earth
quake of 1928 destroyed much of
the capital and killed 100000 Japa-
nese. He was in swimming at the
time and lost all his personal pos
sessions except his trunks and a
bathrobe. With other members of
the American colony he worked for
days helping to rescue the injured
from burning buildings and provid-
ing hospital supplies and food. He