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Wednesday, August 29, 1943 Pago Four THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, OREGON Our Boarding House With Major Hoople Out Our Way J.R. Williams Hi Vi Ik cWflto r ! CEREMONIAL EXECUTION OF . AN AlAAt.U A1KAIAN ' XII ' THERE is another aspect Shinto which explains Japa : nose treachery and cruelty. For : 6hlnto, the "Way of the Gods, has only one moral imperative, ' nd that is proclaimed by its ! name; it is the duty to follow the . "way of the gods." But the god ; whose "ways" are to be followed ; wore conceived in a primitive : jungle age, and therefore display . ell the characteristics of the Jun gle age. They arc murderous cruel, tricky, treacherous, dirty. , and incidentally obscene. Lest other Influences like Bud ' dhism or Western civilization . should have softened the Japanese . fiber, the Shinto statesmen, ilk Hitler In Germany, have carried ! through a process which one Jap- . Bnese professor so aptly describes ' as "re-barbarization." It, toowas , accomplished by a training wnlch , deliberately educates the nation's youth in cruelty, brutality, and ' murder, and encourages tnc prac . lice of them to make it hard much aa primitive savages edu cate their youth at the torture ' stake. This training finds its cll- , max on the battle fields, where Japanese soldiers are rewarded for victory by permission and en- , couragement to Indulge In de- moniacal outbursts of rapine, tor I ture, and murder as a means of ! stimulating primitive blood lust 1 and tho desire to kill. , The courso of the Pacific war ' has demonstrated that nolther his I savagery nor his training have been able to make the Japanese soldier a match for the Allied , fighting men, whose faith passes his understanding. But it is well ' to remember that the tortures and atrocities inflicted by the Japa - iene on their victims are no ex ' cesses of individuals, but the ' planned results of a system de liberately created to promote the aggressive designs of a savage theocratic state of which the Jap . encse Emperor is Ood, ruler and high priest, who gives his "Im- ' perial Sanction" to it all. fivtiSQllo OTQUofhusi Distributed NEA JilttWICB. JNC Otto'D. Tolischus From the Diary of a Japanese soldier killed at Salamaua, New Guinea, entry for March 29, 1043: WE all assembled at headquar ters where one of the crew of a Douglas shot down by anti-aircraft March IS was brought under guard. Tnl Commander (Sub-TJeutcn-ant First Class) Konr.nl told us it had been decided to execute him and he was to bo accotded a Samurai's death. Wo wcro assembled to witness tho execution. The prisoner was given a drink of wafer outside the guard house. The chief surgeon, Lieutenant Komal and a platoon commander bearing a sword came from the officers' mess. The time has come. The pris oner of war totters forward with his arms tied. His hair is cut close. V - -J 4 Jap With Samurai Sword About to Behead Allied Flyer I feel he suspects what is afoot, but he is more composed than I thought he would be. Without more ado he is put on a truck and taken to tho place of execu tion. The prisoner sits beside the chief surgeon and about ten guards accompany him. The noise of the engine echoes along the road In the hURh of twilight. The sun has set and columns of clouds rise before us. I glance at the prisoner and he seems prepared. He gazes at the grass, now at the mountains and sea. At the execution ground Lieu tenant Komal faces the prisoner nd said: "You arc to die. I am going to kill' you with this Japa nese sword according to the Samurai' code." The commander's face Is stern. Now tho time has come. The pris oner is mario to sit on tho edge of a wator-fllled bomb crater. Tho precaution is taken to surround him with guards. When I put myself in his place the hate engendered by this daily bombing yields to ordinary human feelings. The Tal commander draws his favorite sword, the famous "Osa- mune." The sight of the glittering blade sends cold shivers down the spine. First he touches prisoner's neck lightly with sword. Then he raises it overhead. His arm muscles bulge. Prisoner closes liia eyes for a second and at once the sword sweeps down. Swish it sounds at first like noise of cutting, but is actually made by blood spurting from arteries as the body falls forward. Everybody steps forward as head rolls on the ground. The dark blood gushes from trunk. All is over. There lies the head like a white doll. I realize that the 'emotions I felt just now was not personal pity but manifestation of magnanimity that becomes a chivalrous Samu rai. A superior seaman from the medical unit received the sword from the surgeon. He rolls the body on back. "Here's something for the other day tnke that," ho says, and with one sweep lays open the abdomen. "These thick-headed white are thick-bellied too," he remarks. There's not a drop of blood left in man's body. The seaman gives him a kick, then buries it. Tho wind blows mournfully and the scene prints Itself on my mind. Dorkness descends. In front of headquarters we got off truck. If ever I get back alive this will make good story to tell. That's why I write It down. The prisoner killed today was airforce "tai" (captain or flight lieutenant) from Moresby. He young man aged 23, an instructor Army transport command at Moresby. THE END HE-V. AfA06: nwe up. COME ON, IT ftUKNIN&! TIME TO HEW2. THE PITTER- PATTER OF LITTLB FALLEN ARCHES ON THE FLOOR; X SLEPT LIKE A WORM OUT MUMM.V. ""mill 6AV X 3UST NOTICED THIS Uooseeow seems- TO BE MOVING HAX-KM-F.' WO-HUMi fSNIFF-1 SWIFF.' 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