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Farly Alaskan Back From Orient
Tells Of Outrageous Jap Facts
Thomas B. Wilson, resident of
Alaska in his youthful days, re
turned to Seattle recently after a
long and hazardous experience
in the war-stricken Orient, of
which he relates many exciting
I and even horrifying events.
Early Schooling In Teller
As the son of the late T. G.
Wilson, the first postmaster ot
| Teller, and Mrs. Maggie Wilson,
) he received his early schooling
1 in Teller and later attended
school in Anacortes, Wash.
| Long a leading executive of
the Alaska Steamship Co., Wil
j son is home after 22 years spent
i in the Orient, the last six months
in a Japanese internment camp
1 at JIongKong, the notorious Stan
j ley prison.
Overyjoyed at his return, and
j meeting him on his arrival was
| his venerable mother and others
of his near family.
The war seemed very close, in
deed, as he sat in a bedroom of
his brother’s home and recalled
the horrible days of the siege of
Hong Kong, the falling bombs,
the bursting shells, the 20,000
bodies left lying in the streets,
, and the days after capitulation
' when Japanese soldiers stood up
some of their more unfortunate
prisoners and, shooting gallery
fashion, nicked an arm, a leg,
and then hilariously finished
them off with bayonets.
Returned on Gripsholm
Wilson, former Hong Kong
agent for the American Mail
Lines, was one of the 300 Ameri
cans evacuated from Stanley Pri
son and landed Ln New Jersey
rccenly from the Swedish liner,
Gripsholm. He landed in New
York, lie said, with the suit of
clothes he was wearing and with
a few dollars he had been given
by the American government. I
“We knew the Japs were com
ing some day,” he said, “but we 1
didn’t expect them so soon. They
caught us with our pants down.
We had 8,000 troops and they!
sent 80.000 to take us. We lasted
18 days.
“If we'd had planes, it might i
have been a different story. We
had a few bombers, yes, but the
first day the Japs bombed the
field, and from that moment they
i operated over us just about as
they pleased.
I "Even so, we hoped we could
j hold out until help came. We
. were told that 100,000 Chinese
troops were coming down to our
rescue, that planes were prepar
ed tofly from Manila and Singa-1
pore. At noon the day of our
surrender the papers counseled
‘Hold fast, keep faith.' And then j
the governor surrendered.
Jap Brutalities Told
“We thought the Japs could be [
held off because that had been
i drilled into us.
“Rou can say this, if you like: '
; Anything that I have read thus I
i far about the looting and raping j
j
in Hon.? Kong only parially tolls
the story. They raped English
I and Portuguese and Chinese wo
men. The American women, for
tunately, were out of heir way
those first days.
“The Japanese entered the mili
tary hospitals at the outskirts of
the city after surrender and rap
ed the nurses in the wards. I
personally know of dozens of
such instances.
“When they came into tihe city
proper, however, they were un
der control of their officers.
“For the first ten days,” Wil
son said, “they fed us nothing
but boiled rice. Then our Chin
ese friends began to smuggle
food to us. On January 23 they
ran us out to the wardans’ and
guards’ quarters at Stanley pri
son.
Wilson said there were 3,000
English, 350 Americans and a |
few Dutch at the prison-.
“They mistreated us,” he said
of his captors. “I was not un
common to have all the men, wo
men and children lined up while
some Japanese officer harangued
us for not saluting a sentry. And
then he’d have a so-ldier go down
the line belting each one of us
in the face. It was humiliation;
and intended as such, to show
us our place.
Politeness as Hypocrisy
“The Japanese hate the white'
races, but, of course, we who
lived in the Orient always know
that. We weren’t taken in by
their politeness, as many white
persons were over here.
"The Indians of the Hongkong
police force who had gone over
to the Japs used to single out
their former white officers and
beat them terribly, and were
never interrupted by the Japan
ese sentries. I will say, however,
that the Indian troops were mag
nificent. In fact, they refused to
stop firing after the surrender.
They didn’t sfop fighting until
the Japs sent planes over them. |
“When the chance came to;
leave, about fifty of the Ameri
can prisoners stayed. They were I
those who had no interests in
the United States, those who had
married Chinese women or mis-1
sionaries who hoped still to con-1
vert the heathen.”
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