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...seven-year-old Filipino boy made the mistake of walking behind a sentry instead of in front. The sentry ran him through with a bayonet. The boy's father tried to retrieve his body, was bayoneted...
...Pontianak on the South China Sea. He completed his occupation of Balikpapan on the east coast of Borneo. He hurled bombs, then troops at the Indie's No. 2 naval base, Amboina in the Moluccas. The brave, brown Amboinese met the enemy with skill at marksmanship and the bayonet. But they were too few and they lacked both naval and air support. The Dutch sadly announced that demolition squads, long trained for just such preventive waste, had wrecked every useful thing in Amboina...
...this juncture MacArthur chose to act on the opposite side of the peninsula. He concentrated his 155-mm. artillery on his mountainous right flank, slaughtering the massed Japs by hundreds, made an oldfashioned, cold-steel bayonet attack which sent the shattered Japs reeling back abandoning much equipment. The pressure on MacArthur's left promptly relaxed. On his 62nd birthday this week Douglas MacArthur was still chipper, still bucking up, his men by visits to his fronts. He said: "The enemy may hold the bottle, but I hold the cork...
Lest we forget. In December 1937-but four years ago-the Jap Army conquered the capital city of China. . . . Forty-two thousand people were murdered. Many were tied together in batches of 50, sprinkled with kerosene and set on fire; thousands were used for bayonet and sword practice by the Jap soldiers...
...Charles Atlases would be required to engage in sports throughout their two-and-a-half or four years, while those who didn't pass would develop skills for behind-the-line work, which presumably wouldn't include climbing fences, enduring long exposure, or chasing little yellow men with a bayonet. This, again, is a concrete suggestion for gearing the colleges efficiently to the victory campaign. Though it may take a different shape finally, it points one way of eliminating the "chaos" existing in the present method of selection--a method which works great hardship on individuals as well...