HEROES OF YESTERDAY?

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 8, 12 February 1944, Page 6

HEROES OF YESTERDAY?

COLUMBUS »• Discovered America# COKTEZ • Conquered Mexico i PIZARRO • Di severer of Paru* f: BALBOA • Discoverer of Pacific. MAGELLAN Explore re rof Pacific* CAHCTJS * Soldier & Poet, w HEROIC eras are never sentinr ' on tai. Little gratitude did the Kings of Spain and Portugal show to those bold conquistadors who added whole worlds to their domin--ions. Colombas brought back to Saville in chains* Cortez fell into disgraces Pizarro was murder* ed; Balboa 9 the discoverer of the Pacific, was beheaded; Magellan, who explored and made tho discovery more than a name, was murdered t» ‘ ' natives and his name nod to oblivion# Osjixianc, Portugusset; warrior and poet, like Cervantes, spent months in a jail * that was little better than a dunghill# Amazing was the unthankful* v ’ nose of tho ago of discovery. The - soldiers and.sailors- who had fought to so euro tho jewels of Montezuma and the treasures of thb’lncaz for x ,tho Enporor, wandered ns beggars & cripples, lousy and no gloated,in" the alleys of Cadiz, Id sb on and other sea ports * the few cf them, ? that is to .say, who did not leave their bones in the Colonies, but returned horn to be- kicked hither and thither like many dogs# What , interest in such achievements had ths courtiers who never left the safe shelter of their pa la cue, whewe they lived as drones, where they' spent the time in gambling until \ they could secure appo ntmonts as ; governors of the now provinces ? \ Thon thee filled their money bags, ’< thrusting aside as vexatious in .«* ■■> traders, the colonial fighters, the 1 frontier officiary of those days ■ who, after years of sacrifice and • 7 exhaustion .. , were ' •< V fools ehough to return " \ Extract from M Conqueror of the Seas” x The story of Magellan. A ■ by. So Sweigs j . We look back on the period 1450 -i 1550 as the great Ago of discovery and romance g groat in extending man’s horizon it was. Europe discovered the world? subsequent ages made the M romance 1-

TH® following are the components of the Japanese including conquered, occupied or ” dominated territory % all of which ( except the home islands themselves ) are to be stripped away when the Cairo Declarations ere fulfilled : - SfißHfiSX. A® (Sq. Ml. 20PUU.TI0N. AOQ.’OIRED. Japan homeland..... 148,000 ;. 75«0O© o 0O0<» Formosa & Pescadores* 13.900. 7*000.000 4 After Bino-Jap. war , 1095. Kwantung ( including , Bort Arthur & Da£rcn)lJa4oo I»657 o 000. "Loasccd" from China. - .x / 1898. Ka rai u to ( southern part of Sakhalin Is) 14.000 332,000. After Russo-Jap.War. - . • ®j9Os. Korea.. 0 000 24.500*000. By Treaty between -r a , Japan & Korea.l9lo. Pacific Islands.(ln'eluding Marshalls* 4 Mariannas,Carolines) 830. 4 120*000.. Mandate.l9l9l Mhnchukuo. (Manchu- v . *) 503.000. , 39.0000.000. Invasion,l93l-32, Occupied China »..&««•? 100.000«000. Invasion since 1937 French Indo China 286 c 000 24 c 000<,000® "Protected 0 since 3 . 1940-4l* •Thailand. (Formerly Siam ) 00oOCO• l6 e 000.000» . Military Occupation. 1942 0 I Malaya' (Fcimcrly Siam) ,53.000. So>DC c OOO. Taken from Lotharv ■ lands f 1942, Kothorland 1ndi0...73C.00C 6Cw(WoOOC> i Jhilipincsll6.CCC, 17.000,000. Taken from 11.5.1942. BURMA. «14^f£. fi 0£0 J t Taken from Britain. * .Si&LWX. Plus. • •3ISIX£SU(’SB 1942 -.■■■«•■- ■' ‘ ' \ . . • 1 • .