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An ~.~~~~.~~S~D~N~A~Ld .!H~C·,,;~H~Re!.;Ons .,. ' } The Offici~l Organ of the W.A. Branch ·R.S.S.A.I.L.A. G\iarante~d Circulation: 20,000 Copies C.mmentl, Wileaa ac:knowledqed aa auch: mual not ESTABLISHED ,.,n REGISTERED A7 THE G.P.O., ~Y be accepted aa ataUnq. the official viewpoint 1,_ PERTH, FOR TRANSMlSSION BY: POST AS A NEWSPAPER Subscription 3/6 per annum, pay~bl~ in advance. · TELEP..H~iNES B4750, B8530, - Vol. XXIV. No. I/• PERTH: . WE~TERN AUSTRALIA SEPTEMBER, 1945 " . · ~ not hE;Sitated to' praise him to war cor• r~pondents after these three bitter years. One ca~ot but concur the authorities An ~.~~~~.~~s~d~n~a~ld .!h~c · ,,;~h~re!.;ons in their decision to delay the return of of Austr~~: soldiers whdm he met, when they were r~leased from a Japan­ liberated men until they have received ese prison camp. Not only had· these men suffered atrocious treatment necessary. medical treatment......_ Naturally • t. tbejr friends and relatives wjmt them , ,jt the hand~ of the_ir sub-huma~ c~ptors, but they also suffered the me~tal back as soon as p0$Sible, but they must .torture of J,elining, they were hated and,de.spised by their own countrymen. first be physically .fit to 'stand the trip.· tiowever, t"r~ughout all thejr su.fferings, they retained· their. confidence in Years of malnutrition and rpental anxiety'\ '•must have left a ·deep mark on even theirr commander, Lieut.-General Go;~on Ben~ett, and the 'belief-that the • - ~ those whose physical su1Ferings have not R.S.L. will look_a~er them. been so great. The liberation of the .... body must be followed by the liberation of the soul. There was something par· ti~ularly fiendish in the mental tortures As THE LATE Mr. John Curtin said, of bad. manflers and worse policy, . for inflicted by the Japanese. Our lads were "part of Australia's heart is locked up in which it Will be difficult to find an official told they would get !)O pay; that they Malaya." . It was in that region that. SO· explanation that will satisfy 'most Aus· would '. get no W!JI medals; and that no many thousands of our gallant you!lg tralians. W f in Western Australia owe jobs would be waiting for them when · men tasted the oitterness of defeat and a deep debt of gratitude to General Ben· they got home. Many poor lads were surrender that all their valour could not nett. It was he_ ·who· i'iisisted that the allowed to die in the belief that their avert. As the weacy war years drAgged State should be put into' a state of de; COW)trymen at home despised them be· on these lads were without news of 'their fence and nQt thrown to the wolves when cause they cm~ld vr.ot gain a ictory . ~n· people, ana their people h"eard very little . the first shadows of ' inyasion crept to· der overwhelmin~handicaps, and had to Of them. The Japanese authdrities whq ~ wards our north-western shore§. It was ~ender when any other course would could neither win like gentleme11, nor los.: he whb demanded · and was entrusted have been mass suicide. like men· persistently ,denied acCess 'to with the task of taking measures for the One statement that was made by a these men by members of the"lnternat· defence of Western Australia. Had he large group of liberated men to corres­ ional Red Cross, and refused even to been listened to during the fi'gh~ for pondent Cieorge H. Johnstone was: "We indicate their places of internment. The Malaya, tqe Japanese success; even if have no dema.cyds to make, bltt-most of disgusting revelations of sadistic policy it could not have been turned to defeat, us feel that we are owed something, and an~ fiendish cruelty that have· ~ome to woald at least have been far more costly. we are relying on the R.S.L. to look light since the surrender of Japan show It was his afnbition to lead a liberation after us." Boys of the Eighth Division, clearly why <the little· brown reptiles w~re . force into Malaya, but. that ambitiort was the R._S.L. wiLl c~ainly look after you. 30 reticent on this score. Nevertlieless, nev~r achieved. One cannot help feel· W e know you did your best, and that although we did. not know what Y/rts ing that 'a gallant and distinguished Aus· your best was better than the best your happeniitg behind the veil of secrecy, tralian commander has l5een given a very enemies could do against you. On·e can• Australian soldiers, and Austfalian civil· raw deal. W e, as a paper, consider we not ~in· every battle. There is often· a ians;· too, were often disappointed, and were fortunate in being abkJs> publish nobility in defeat that is an inspiration sometimes impatient, because a more dir· a first-hand story of the famous escape to future victory; and a losing battle ect effort wa.S not made to recover frotp. Malaya, by one wlio helped to against overwhelming odds has, ma_ny Singapo're and set our .men free. The orgapise it and took part in it./111at times in our pational story, been the pre· strategy of the war; however, precluded· story, which appeared. fii-st in Th{ Listen· cur~r of ultimate and complete success. this,.and-we know now that all our men ing Post; was reprinted by service maga· Torus, the men who fought so gallantly were not s~g in tne same pla'ce. 4ine.s in other parts of .Australia and the 9Ut so hopelessly in Malaya and Singa· It would~-Ye J>een a generotls gesture . Empire. It was r--Jcrushing rejoinder to _;pore rank with the heroes of~e beaches on the part of the fl.ustralian Govern· the vile, whispenng campaign that was at Dunkirk. They are tr~e h .r s of those ment if Genetal Gordon Bennett · had directed against General Bennett, after who landed on Gallipoli, only t evacuate been allowed to represent Australia at tl_le Ae had come back- to give .Australia the the ·Peninsula several ~onth...§..later. We, surrender of Singapore, as Ge11-eral Mac· benefit of his experience in jungle war• in this country, are now...waiting to wel· Arthur W¥ present iri Tokio. That he' .fare. That is why we were glad to read come t]lese meh home, to bind up their · wu not seems m extraordinary ex~ple - that tl_le' men who fought under him have woun~, ~nd give them that loving care TH!! LI8TBNING PosT ~rnc11na.1:T and kipdne55, that sympathetic undentanding, aoldier settlement after the former war had the Ho111e to call for an immediate announce• which alone can wipe away the scars of been the restricted · holdings. "If 'we are mem that the neceaeary .legislation will lie mental &)JIIering. going to contemplate soldier settlement at intrQ.duced this seuion. Mr. Thorn ap'proved & to the future, .we as a League will all," Mr. McE~ep went on, "it must be with of dre.:set•u,p for the control of the land set• certainly see that their rehabilitation in~o an air of liberality. · We must have the right tlemedt ichemc in Western Australia. State civilian life is full and adequate. Nothing settlers, and we mUst give proplr assistance. officers, he said .were men of p'rov~d:ability, but complete ptef~rence, as oppo~ed to the Even more\ impo~t, · the. settlers must be and the Commo,nwealth must acltnqw)edge the' pretence of· preference that is offered in the -. ~red of a market fqr: their goods." Mr: State adyieera, if the project is .,to ·succeed. recent Pedera1 Act, will be good enough for MCEwen said that retUrned men should not 'Tiie Qommonwealth Government, he went these men. It is almost an insult to ~ention oe given hard. unbearinir ground to break! in. · -on, is trying tb initiate a· policy of socialiea• their sacrifices and sufferings in the same They ihould be given good homes, not sub• tion, with th,e result that it will consider only breath a& the performances of war workers standard shacks, of which so. many were seen- a-leasehold scheme. This, Mr. Thorn de· on the home front, admirable and .essential after the former war. They should have dared, ia not suitable lor Western Australia. as the latter may have been. When they every domestic con'llfnienco installed. He Servicmen should be ,at liberty _!o select return let us give · them a roy..t welcome, -would not like to see a repetition of former . ei~her a freehold or a leasehold-sCheme. Un• and let no niggardly frrping about rrefer• instances, when men were left wtthout elec• der existing machinery, se~ce'tnen will be .' ence prevent the just recognition o their - tricity :r· tl\eir . homes, although transmission protected from makif!g. an unwist dloice of claims. Throughout all their grim experie.nce, liQes.;'p ed by only short distances away. ,He land. Therelore, ·a scheme m'igbt be intro• these boys have placed their faith in 'the dia no want to· see settlers diave to work duced ln Weatern Australia to help soldiers · R.S.L. and, if we kJ;~ow our own organisa• for ten years to get these conyeniences. Mr. through our· Rural and Industrie8 Bank. Mr. tion, that ~· th ha,s not. been misplaced . As M~ wen said that he ' w~s a returneq soldier '{horn said that, when he gave notice of the dear old " ryblower" Murpby once wrote- settler after th~ war of 1914·18, and bad motion a month ago, the Lands Del?artment " e shall remember- · seen much misery resulti~g !rom the faulty had received 600 applications for land.
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