Milford chronicle., 1956-06-08
MILFORD CHRONICLE 1LFoRD DELAWARE FRIDAY. JUNE 1856

the commencement exercises on
/ Sunday afternoon at the University
of Delaware, Newark. Among those
receiving degrees were Mrs. Ches-
ter Morris, Mrs. Burton Cannon,
Jr.. and Miss Kathleen Dobson.
Mrs. Winford Brittingham re-
turned home Monday after a ten
day visit with Mrs. Alton Rogers
and family in Niles, Ohio, aud Mr..
and Mrs. Harvey Rogers and family
in Hyattsville, Nd.
Mrs. Edna Moore, Mrs. Earl Hud-
son, and Mrs. Ernest Daisey are
patients in Beebe Hospital.
To Correct Error: Mrs. Marshall
Hudson entertained at a stork
shower in honor of Mrs. Leon Win
gate recently.
This is the final in the series
"The Island Soldier" by Paul B.
Moore of Millsboro.
Camp life was still Army, only
different army, and firing squads
instead of guardhouse punishment.
Then in September 1912, 214 men
and officers were sent out of camp
for points unknown. Here we bid
goodbye to men, many to later foe
tabled deceased. l remember our
Captain calling out "I'll see you
in Frisco, Moore. Be on the docks
to greet you" But fate decreed
different; he died in Japan and /
returned to the docks at Seattle.
This bunch of men went to Bill
bid prison and then augmented
with Death March survivors wer'
herded $500 men on a small
freighter loaded already with gaso-
line, trucks and sick Jap troops
due of rest in Formosa. Three days
out of Manila. with latrine lines
and the one to the water tap both
doing a great business, the U. S.
Navy. in the form of a submarine
shot two torpedoes at us. More for
tunate than others in later boats.
we were missed. Again fate played
a joke in that l met members of
| that submarine crew year later
in a Tokyo hospital. 1t seems the
! lookout of the sub couldn't make
mp his mind whether he saw planes
or sea gulls Our trip on the Titori
Maru consumed forty days to Japan
with a stop at Fushan in Korea.
Here 1000 men were set ashore for
work in coal mines in Manchuria.
| And a year to that day 400 some
! odd were with comrades in arms
in eternity.
At Osaka ironically enough, we
landed on Nov. II, 1912, to be pulled
north to Tokyo Iby Reading r. r.
engine. Our camp, to bring this
story down to a point, was Kawa-
saki. To visualize it, assume that
Tokyo was Philadelphia, Yokohama
as Wilmington and then. Chester
would be Kawasaki. 1t was high
ly industrial though manpower ran
much of it. The Americans were
put to work unloading coal boats,
making bricks, chipping steel bars
and pouring steel. We did as little
as we could, of course, and lost or
broke all machinery we were able
| to. Food became, as it had for a
| long time our major aim in life.
"Steal all you can from the Nips'
became our slogan and many in
eenious means were used to fur
ther that aim. Inspections of priso-
ners became usual with rather
rough beatings being the net re
ward News of the outside was
rather accurate, though late and
by many bull sessions. we plotted
the advance of the Allies on the
Road to Tokyo Soon Okinawa, Sal
pan and Two Jima came into the
talks. Then at last we had first
hand knowledge of Americas Air
Power from the dark days with
spectacular results. At no time,
from March 1915 until the end
was there a city in Nippon free
from fires and death Our camp at
Mitsui House, called the harshest
camp in Tokyo area. was split for
q move to the north where some
industries were still functioning
Once move 7 hacked and we we've
off to Hitachi. the Westinghouse