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EtGHT TELEGRAM, ADRIAN, MICHIGAN, 'MONDAY; JUNE They Call It Pacific by CLARK LEE Brush With a Jap Cruiser Chapter 25 The straight out into thejChina Sea for about ten miles and, then turned south along the coast of Luzon. The last we saw of Corregidor was its giant searchlights illuminating the waters north of us and shinihg-on the jungle-covered south shore of Bataan. The most ticklish part of the trip that first night on the voyage to Cebu was passing through the Verde: Island passage between Luzon and the Island Mindoro, which lay to the south. The straits were only eight miles wide, with an is- land in the' middle. We knew that the Japs had stationed garrisons on both the Mindoro and Luzon shores of the straits and probably on the island.

For" all we knew there were torpedo boats or destroyers on the straits. an armed launch would have" meant curtains for Our hull was so thin' that a stream of bullets would have sunk the ship. We landed next day at the port of Looc on the island of Tablas and the day at' Estancia "on the northeastern tip of Panay. Next -morning we anchored off BarilU, on the west coast'of Cebu. Filipinos' from the crew of the carried us the last few feet to shore on their shoulders.

We thanked the "Princesa's" portly captain and the other officers and said good-by. The mayor of Barilli met us in the paved streets of the He began an enthusiastic speech of welcome to the "reinforcements" for One of the Englishmen interrupted him: "I say! We're not reinforcements. We've escaped from Bataan." The mayor's face dropped a foot. On smooth-paved roads we drove forty miles across'the island to the of Cebu, on the east shore. We found Major Bird of the Quartermasters Corps in an air-conditioned office down by the waterfront.

He was, young, handsome, He "looked at the MacArthur had given us and said: X. "Ttiere a-ship along sooner or later. an eye out for you. If it doesn't show up we'll try to get you to Mindanao and maybe you-can catch a plane from Del Monte to Australia." Several days later, at four o'clock hi the morning, a car. pulled up in front of the Liloan Beach Club where we were staying.

It was Lieutenant Colonel JSdmunds and his "Pack up your things and, get going," Edmunds said. "Bird sent me out'here to tell you to come on into Cebu as fast as you can." We were on our fifteen minutes. We went up 'to Bird's apartment and, he gave us some morning." He looked "Here's, tfie score," he "A Jap cruiser is coming up the headed for It is here at 'noon at the speed it is If you want to go on the "Don Nati" you can. I'm going down to the dock." At the dock we held a last minute consultation. Mel, Anrialee, and I couldn't make up our minds.

It seemed highly likely that the cruiser could catch the "Dona Nati" a few miles out of Cebu and our voyage would end abruptly. Bu1 wnlle we, were talking we walked up the gangplank. A naval officer, a friend from Corregidor, shouted at us from the dock. "Don't be damn fools," he said. "Come- down off of breakfast.

"I thought it best to I Then Bird shouted, "This may be ha "Tho vour last chance." get you down, here," he said. "The "Dona Nati" is pulling out this BLONDDE By; Chic Young CADDY 1 RAKE THEGRASS VOUNSMAN, HAVE SOU HEARP OFTHE CHILD OWWANVTHIMS TO KEEP PEACE By Carl Anderson WATER THE PALMS IN LOBBV DONALD DUCK By Walt Disney TEMPERATIWES (SOME! VOLVRE A WELL I MAN; OH.BOi: OUT Of BED AT GOOD' SON, MY SCORCHY SMITH By Frank Robbins GREAT I KBWEM0EK FISHTING SOT A LUMP LIKE AN O5TK1CH ESS ANP My FAT PEIENP 5KIPPEP THE COOPAFTEE PUT HE LEFT SOMETHING WJTH A RfTOL, SAVING HBB POWN WITH UK PLANE ANP HOWEVER 0EP3KS EMPTIES HEK DKSHNEBARE By Cotillon Waugh THE HARBOR WENT OUT IN PIKE; THE PLANE'S USELESS IN THIS WIND, AND THE MUST GET 70 HIM! BUT HOW? DICKIE WAS HIS MOTORBOAT5 ENGINE WAS.7XKEN OUT OUT FOR REPAIRS'. LABRADOR ASA open CAHOW, YC SWEETIE SHE "GOUT SPEAKTO ME? BRICK BRADFORD By William Ritt and Clarence Gray A MOMENT AGO I WAS WITH JUNE AND SANDY INTIMAK'S CASTLE THEN- MIND GOES'BUNK AND I WAKE UP'INTHIS GARDEN'OF 1 (AND I SEEM TO BE THE MONLY LIVING CREATURE'S IN your last chance." Even then we considered going ashore, but it; was too late. The gangplank had already been, pulled up We steamed out through the north channel for Cebu, passing two rsmaller and slower interris- land ships. of them were sunk by the Jap cruiser that afternoon.

We hardly dared look to the south across the waters. The ship's crew went about their jobs as if nothing up. At noon they announced lunch and we went down to the comfortable dining salon. There was a large table in the center with eight places where the American machine gunners sat and two smaller tables at each side. The Englishmen who had come out of Corregidor with us were already eating.

We turned east after leaving the harbor and within a couple of hours the northwestern corner of Bohol was between -us and Cebu. There was no sign of the cruiser. We listened to the Cebu radio station. At two fifteen it went off the air and a half hour later it came back on. "News flash!" said the announcer.

"A Japanese cruiser' shelled the docks and water front of Cebu froln 2:25 p. m. until 2:40 this afternoon. It has just left the harbor and is speeding away to the southeast." The cruiser wasn't following us. The days that followed were not eventful, but they were not Captain Pons wouldn't tell us exactly where we were going, but we knew it was Brisbane and ive knew that we would have to run east between Japan's Caroline and Marshall Islands and the points in New Guinea and New Britain the Japs had landed.

Van Landingham had a compass, and Jacoby had a map, and we were able to work out our course and daily position pretty well. That first night out. Captain Pons told me, "The Eighteenth will je the most dangerous day. If we can get past that and the next two PHI LIP PINE I LAND miral Jack 1 Fletcher. the 'T know'all about- "That-was-my ihip the Lexington.

We had been in to at- tack'Rabaul. We knew you were there all the time." Over the radio we also heard the startling news' that MacArthur had reached Australia. We were-stunned and delighted. Captain Pons put it into words for us: "That's the best possible news for my country, if anybody can save the Philippines, MacArthur can and will. These American soldiers on board tell us there are many planes and men in Australia.

MacArthur will lead them back to the Philippines." By going off course we had lost so much time that two days later we had to pass between Rabaul and the Jap Mandated Island in. daytime, instead of at night as Pons had originally planned- We watched intently.all day without then on- we began to relax. After the 20th it was smooth sailing. We steamed east almost to Fiji, turned south around New Caledonia, and then west through the Coral Sea to Brisbane. We arrived- there on March 30 after a trip of 22 days from Cebu.

As we sailed up the narrow river to the port'we passed many American ships and saw American jeeps and'trucks on the shore. We shook hands with each other and exulted, "By God! The United States is moving. Now to get started back to the Philippines." Note: The map above shows Japanese landings on the Philip- pines'and the route of Clark escape from Bataan through the Philippines to Australia. You may wish to use it in connection lays, we should be fairly safe." We had left Cebu on March 8.. Studying our map, we figured that on, the we would pass the converging for all the Japanese shipping anes from Truk-and the other Mandated Island bases to the Dutch Cast Indies and to New Guinea.

On the 20th we would pass within 60 miles of the furthest south of the Mandated Islands, and between it and Rabaul, where the Japs had set up headquarters on New Britain. Hearing the'captain talk rouble on the 18th, we all began expect it. When the 18th finally came we stayed on deck all day, vatching the sea and sky. The unbroken circle of sea around us iad-come to be all-important. As ong as nothing appeared we were reasonably certain to stay alive.

Toward afternoon we began to encounter scattered rain squalls. There was a neat sign posted in the dining room informing us that one alarm- meant torpedoes, two, airplanes, and three, "surface raiders." At 4:30 the klaxon blared sharply three times. I grabbed my life jacket and ran up to the bridge. The ship was already swinging northward from our course, running for a nearby rain squall. "There, are eight ships over there," Captain Pons said with an air of finality.

"One seems to be an aircraft carrier, and the others smaller warships." Within two or three minutes after we sighted them a black squall hid the ships from us and'we ducked into another squall, hiding until and then going back on the course again. For four months I-congratulated myself that we had given a Jap task force the slip that day. In July, when was traveling on an American aircraft the Solomon Islands attack, I told Ad- They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo 1JHE POORTRAVEL1N6 SALESMAN SPENDS HIS EVENIM6S THE LOBBV OF A MOTH- EATEN HOTEL 3lJT THIS IS HOW THE rJElSHBORS AMD HIS WIFE THINKS HE SPENDS ALL HIS TIME Roy yoowa BALTIMORE.MD. American farmers are expected to produce six million acres of flaxseed in 1943. ic Jl Haskin A.

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