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
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! CEREMONIAL EXECUTION OF
. AN AlAAt.U A1KAIAN
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' 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.
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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.
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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
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