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DIGGER CHIEF Ta^^Flv^Tjate _ Got*** M-is>^;i^,- sP**® » DIGGER CHIEF ta^^flV^tjate. itvrf ^^„Ai to 4« * •»* Gett® By H. I. Tintperley • co^o'"' ^ nUv«9 One iMxng the Japs wanted at Singapore was Aus- ItaUa's Coc^ Beiinett, the man who Imttled them all the way dbwn ttie Maikiyan Peaonsula. They hit them before they land and while was on the island of Singapore, and they didn't get him. He's bacJc on his home grounds, they land. We must attack continu­ succeeded because of their air support. leeuly and eager to caxty the fight to the Japs ously. We must have aggressive in­ The Japs weren't loaded down with spiration at the top and brilliant junior equipment. Their main weapons were leadership. These are the only answers tommy-guns, machine guns, and mor­ to the tactics the Japanese use. tars, and their main means of transport "Australian troops in Malaya suc­ was the simple and efficient bicycle." ceeded in every clash with the Japanese The man who said the foregoing is by throwing overboard the 1918 text­ fondly known to his men as "Cocky." It AUSTRALIA need have no fear of mander of the 18,000 members of the book methods. They gave no thought is a term that implies the fighting spirit Z_i the Japanese if it takes advantage A.I.F. in Malaya, and he escaped from to traditional training methods or an­ of a russet-feathered gamecock, some­ -^ •*• of Malaya's lessons. If Australia Singapore after the surrender. His re­ tique battle technique, and solved each thing that Bennett has a lot of. Brass has failed to learn from this experience, port conveyed to the Australian War problem as it arose. From the start, hats of larger tonnage have never had there can be no answer but defeat. In Cabinet was followed by directives to the A.I.F. realized that the only way to terrors for this spunky Australian. He Australia, our one idea must be to at­ army schools and training centers in­ stop the Japs was to take the offensive, has just gone ahead and blown them out tack, attack, attack. We must not sit sisting on new lines of defensive tactics. particularly with the bayonet. The of the water. A brush with authority back and stay on the defensive. The "In Malaya, I learned that it is hope­ Allies must learn that it is by continu­ occurred just before his appointment to Japanese from general to private had less to underestimate the Japanese," ous offensive action only that the Japs the Malayan command. For some years the offensive spirit and that must be said Gordon Bennett. "It was the uni­ will be beaten. I found that the Japs Bennett had brooded over the shape of our spirit." versal fault of the British that we un­ are well organized and trained, and that things to come, and early in 1939 this The man who proclaims this is a red­ derestimated the power and capacity of they are always on the offensive. civilian, then president of the Chamber headed accountant, a businessman who the Japanese. Our general experience "It was the simplicity of the Japa­ of Manufacturers of New South Wales is a soldier only when there's a war on, was that the Japanese soldier is inferior nese methods that enabled them to suc­ and merely an officer in the reserve, but who will play a vital part in aiding to the Australian soldier. I endorse this ceed. They won battles by maneuvering. wrote a series of trenchant articles for General Douglas MacArthur's defense wholeheartedly. When they clashed There was no need for them to make the Sydney Morning Herald in which he of Australia. with the Australians, we won. frontal attacks. They could infiltrate said just what he thought of the Aus­ "Who's Who" lists him as Major "The Japanese will strike at our air­ and attack from the rear and snap our tralian General Staff. General Henry Gordon Bennett, C.B., dromes and use them for jumping-off vulnerable communications. There was The theme of the articles was familiar C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D. He was com­ places for further advances. We must only one real frontal attack, and that enough. Bennett said things that critics 31 PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED Collier's for April 11, 1942 of the British Army and of the United he left for Malaya that he would take a States Army have said many times, masseur with him to keep him limber by Pipe this new tobaccy— chiefly that the democratic armies were rubbing his muscles with eucalyptus oil. preparing for the last war instead of the Ironically, also, the first job he did in No harshness, by dacly! ^ , next. Bennett charged that the Aus­ this war was to organize a veterans' tralian General Staff was antiquated, and corps. l!OHO! AND IHE FLAVOR OF RDM! < that if they had got beyond the tactical When the Returned Soldiers League, conceptions of Waterloo—which he Australian counterpart of the American doubted—they were thinking too much Legion, decided that the time had come in terms of Spion Kop and Amiens and to form an ex-servicemen's volunteer too little about the dust-up he knew to defense corps, the military authorities be just around the corner. scoffed at the idea of an "old men's Bennett had a close friend in Major brigade." Then Bennett stepped in and, General Henry Wynter, a brilliant staff knocking the corps into first-class fight­ officer who had worked out probably the ing shape, successfully demanded its first general theory of the defense of incorporation as an integral part of the Australia by Australia;i forces acting Australian military force. Today, as a alone. This, too, was heresy to Wynter's result of his foresight, 50,000 well- imperial-minded colleagues. To them trained veterans are able to take the the assumption (now apparently a fact) field in New South Wales alone, as Aus­ that Australia might have to defend her­ tralia girds herself to meet the onrush- self without large British assistance was ing Japanese. In meerschaum or briar a crime of unforgivable proportions. At all events, Wynter was deprived of his The Man for the Job It's cool under -fire ! job as commandant of the staff school in Sydney and posted to a district com­ After this, Bennett's stock rose so --^^YO HO! AND THE EIAVOR OF RUMman! d in Queensland. rapidly in the public estimation that The technical charge against Wynter when it was decided to send a division was that he had once expressed his to help in the defense of Malaya he was views to a nonmilitary audience. A given the command. His qualifications similar complaint was made by the brass for -this key position were felt to be hats against Cocky Bennett because of threefold: He had had the right kind of his Sydney Morning Herald articles, and fighting experience in the last war, he he resigned his command in the Aus­ was able to think in terms of current tralian military reserve. All of which needs rather than textbook strategy, would be so much ancient history if it and, most important of all, he had did not offer a deadly Australian parallel everything that the Australian means to what happened in the democratic when he talks about "guts." armies up to the beginning of the pres­ There can be no shadow of doubt that ent war and for too long afterward, and the battling bookkeeper has red blood if it did not throw light on just what sort in his veins as well as red hair on of soldier Bennett is. his head. During the first World War Down at the Imperial Service Club in he was cited for gallantry eight times. one of Sydney's lanelike, 150-year-old As a youthful major at Gallipoli he led FRIENPS price-did yon ss^, sir? streets, where the younger reserve of­ a desperate stand on shell-torn Pine ficers do their serious drinking, Cocky Ridge. Shot in wrist and shoulder when One dime's a]ljoup£^, sir! Bennett became something of a hero. He standing up to direct the fire of his men stayed friends, too, with Major General against the Turks, Bennett was evacu­ Iven Mackay, then headmaster of a ated to a hospital ship but "deserted" YD HO! AND THE FLAVOR OF RUM! swank preparatory school in exclusive back to his unit to carry on the fight the Rose Bay, who was recently recalled, next day. His younger brother, a lad after brilliant work in North Africa, to of twenty, was killed in the same en­ take charge of Australia's home de­ gagement. fenses. At twenty-six, Bennett found himself Cocky feels that this is a young man's a colonel and when he was appointed to war. Just before he left for Malaya he command the battle-scarred 3d Aus­ had dinner at the University Club in tralian Brigade in France he was, at Sydney with a manufacturer who was twenty-nine, the youngest brigadier running a small but essential industry general in the entire Australian army. It but who wanted to get into the army. was while serving with the 3d Brigade as "Don't be a damn' fool," Cocky told him a company signaler that I first came in bluntly. "I wouldn't have a subaltern contact with him in 1917. Company over twenty-three. He's got to be able signalers don't hobnob much with briga­ to go for days and nights without sleep dier generals, as a rule—their work Malce FRIENDS your selection and still do a job better-than any man takes them a bit too far forward for that under him.
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