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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1942 mi; mi WHO^ NEWS THIS WEEK Benito’s Contribution to Singapore Defense By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) M'EW YORK.—Commentators and war correspondents are now re calling the famous “Memorial to the Emperor,” supposedly written by W £> Bar0n Gi * Jap Mem Kampr Ich i Tanaka Recalled;Revealed in 1927, in Aggreetion Steps ^ hich » ^ ° r document was not a forgery, Japanese plans for world conquest were formulated much in the manner of Adolf Hit ler’s blue print for homicide in “Mein Kampf.” Baron Tanaka died September 29, 1929, a few weeks after the fall of his cabinet, his premiership having lasted about two years. This department is supposed to deal only with the living, but breaks pace today to note the possibly his toric significance of the baron and his document—and the life story of the suave little man who died of high blood* pressure, at 66, after many years of deep absorption in “sword romance,” the Japanese equivalent of the blood and thunder pulp thrillers of our country. History may give him a nod in view of the fact that his docu ment ticked off the later steps of Japanese aggression as neat ly as a pool-player calling his shots. The Japanese repeatedly have denounced it as a forgery. Whatever it was, it jumped the dock and told “the shape of tilings to come.” The first reference to the docu ment in this country, so far as this reporter could discover, was in pub lished quotations from the Russian newspaper, Pravda, of November 5, 1931. Pravda did not reveal how it had obtained its copy of the “Me morial,” but it flared it out as “a startling revelation of the Japanese carefully prepared plan for world conquest.” « “Japan’s aggressive tendencies will not end in China,” said the Pravda article. “She has designs on the Philippines, the Malayan ar chipelago, Guam, Tahiti, Samoa and Australia. It presages a fight for a new division of the world, for it is inseparably linked with conflict among imperialist nations for con trol of the Pacific.” The newspaper then quoted from the document: “If we intend to gain control over China, we must first crush the United States. To ‘capture China, we must also crush Man churia and Mongolia. In order to eonquer the world, we must first conquer China. If we suc ceed In conquering China, the rest of the Asiatic countries and the South Sea -countries will fear us and surrender to us.” For understandable reasons, the Pravda story got scant attention in ' _ , the Ameri- Press Discredited can press, Tanaka Memorial; in view of Japs March On! r ous propa ganda stories issuing from this source and was, for the most part editorially dismissed as an effort to “cause dissension among friendly capitalistic nations.” But, American correspondents, digging into the story in the Far j East, discovered that, in 1929, the “Memorial” had been examined by members of the American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations, ! in Mukden. It was submitted to ( them by members of the entourage of the Chinese Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. One of this delegation was reported to have said: “We pledge the full authen ticity of this document and we plead with you to understand that Japan has begun a pro gram of world* aggression which inevitably must involve the United States.” So far as we can learn, news of this incident was not published in this country until after the Pravda story. This, however, is not cer tain. It may have appeared in some American newspapers. This writer remembers a long article in a Brit- •iah newspaper of five or six years ago, the Manchester guardian, if memory serves, in which was cited documentary evidence of the validity of the document and pleaded for a re shaping of British policy in the Far East and the strengthening of the naval base at Singapore. On April 23, 1940, Rear Ad miral J. K. Taussig, retired, ap peared before the senate com mittee on naval affairs and in sisted on the validity of the Ta naka Memorial. He begged for a consideration of Japanese re lations in this light, but the navy, however, repudiated his testimony. Pierre Van Paassen, in his recently published book, “This Day Alone,” reviews the history of the document, defends its authenticity and launches in dignation against the civilized world for failing to heed it. These Breda guns, captured from the Italians in Libya, are being reconditioned in Malaya for use against Jap invaders. During Wavell’s desert blitz a tremendous amount of Italian equipment was taken by the British. It has since been useful on other fronts, and will serve the allied cause again in Malaya. U. S. Battleship Arizona Goes Down wsasgagg^ss The U. S. S. Arizona on fire and sinking in Pearl Harbor after sneak raid by Japanese bombers. ' The 25-year-old battleship was de stroyed by the explosion of the first of its boilers and then its forward magazine, due to a bomb which was said to have literally passed down the smokestack. String of ‘Valentines’ for Axis At a U. S. army airport, somewhere in the U. S., a ground crew is making adjustments to a string of 600-pound bombs before the missiles are loaded into a bombing plane for delivery at • • • ? Where U. S. Troops Are Meeting Japs Above Is a view of the rice fields of Appari, tip of the island of Luzon, which is the principal pines. The Japanese were reported as succeeding this rough terrain, but met with stiff resistance from on this island, was the first major Jap objective. on the northernmost island of the Philip- in landing troops in U. S. troops. Manila, From Wake Island J. B. Cooke, Wake island airpprt manager, and his wife and two chil dren, Bleecker and Philip (front), shown upon their arrival at San Francisco on the clipper plane. This was the third clipper to arrive safe ly from the war zone. All passen gers commented on the high mo rale of the civilians in Honolulu. 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