“Dear Mr, Jolleys:”

The Ontario Command of
the legion has opposed com-;
. pensating ‘Japanese-|
Canadians for what happen-;
ed over 40 years ago. Good. ;
It’s time a sane voice was:

- heard in this debate. Pacific):
Command should now do ;

likewise. and state. in plain ‘
English that it is sick to death |
of all this crap, and that not
only is it against compensa-

get this straig

. that the atrocities committed

against our men in Hong.
places ©
don’t reaily count because.
were ‘committed « by ©
not,

Kong and_ similar

they
Japanese-Japanese,
Canadian-Japanese.
Jack Murta, the sell-out
‘minister -for multicult, yaks
about that. In a letter to
Hong Kong survivor Lionel
Speller. of Victoria,. Murta
\ delivered a load of the usual
: stuff and stated: “It is imper-
"tant to remember that we are

discussing. ilt-treatment™ suf.

, “fered by: Canadians,"
Ww, nac

_ Japanese weren't Canadians’
“at all. They were-aliens. Not
only that, but Tokyo regard.”

in--. ed everyone of Japanese des-

down on the landing ¢ varties.

Our weasel politicians of to-

day know. that, too. ;
me of

-cent. as, Japanese; _ owing
““Joyalty only: ‘to’.the God-

_Emperor.’ Taking note of<
that,.as it-had to, the. Cana---

dian government of the day
did what was necessary. |

light.ask, too, what sort of
“murdered” Curmi’s ‘cousin

(L-treatment”” ‘that © fool’

‘. Murta‘is. talking about.

Most ‘of the © evacuees
weren't even interned, except
briefly, They were tree to

move around, as long as hiey

didn't move back: tothe West
‘Coast. And they. were paid
., for’ ‘their - property, even
“though ‘Tomust agree that
forced sales were wrong. But
apart frorn that, who \was
beaten up? Who was killed?
If he: wants, to talk about ill-
treatment, let-Murta have a
word with’ Charles Curmi,
“also of Victoria,’ who has

“On: -Christmaés. “Day,

941, when. Hong Kong fell,
my: cousin; then a-captain in
» the’ Royal: "Rifles | ‘of Canada,
“ managed ‘to: ‘escape momen-
tarily from ‘his |.
- guards, -Recaptured, he was

~ secured toa ‘wall’ and run

through’ with ‘bayonets until
he-died, Worsé‘was in store
for a good number of the 550
Canadians now buried in the
‘cemetery at Sai Wan Bay...’?

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father had served in the First
World War on our side. tn
spite of that, the Kid's first
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Did the local Japanese of that
day collectively renounce the
God-Emperor and affirm
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did, someone kept it a secret.

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tne Japanese, and it would be -
best to let bygones be
bygones. But the Art Mikis
and Roy Mikis don’t agree.
Meanwhile, if the CBC and
other wimp media have their
way, we'll soon be hearing

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fault.

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jerk leaders of all the political
parties to go to hell. They
may then listen.

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