Where there is oppression, there is resistance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThis is Natsuki's most convincing truth, and it is also a motto that he often uses to warn his subordinate officials. In the Kingdom of Ireland, his consistent governing strategy not only promoted the sustained and rapid economic and social development, but also successfully created a tolerant, friendly, and positive social atmosphere, while in the Kingdom of Wales, under his leadership, the new government under his leadership has effectively reduced the dissatisfaction of the general public through a series of measures such as improving the treatment of workers, improving the working environment, and promoting social welfare, and the law and order situation in various places has undergone qualitative changes. In contrast, whether it is the Kingdom of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Latvia, which were born in the same era as the Kingdom of Ireland, or the Kingdom of England and the Republic of Scotland, which were independent from the Kingdom of Wales, the social stability and public satisfaction are not satisfactory.

In any case, the absence of the Great War has brought calm back to most European countries, but outside of Europe, war and turmoil continue. At the crossroads of Asia and Europe, the civil war in Ottoman Turkey is still going on, the Arabian Peninsula is full of unruly tribal forces and guerrillas, Egypt and Sudan in eastern North Africa are also at war, and in South Africa, the pro-German forces are engaged in a tug-of-war with government forces that were formerly loyal to the British Commonwealth......

April 14, 1936, Kalgoorlie Gold Mine, Western Australia.

"Ask for food! To survive! Ask for food! To survive! ”

Amid indignant slogans, the dirty, smelly miners walked out of their windy sheds on all sides, gathered from various work areas to forks in the road, and then slowly poured along the main road to the only checkpoint leading to the outside world.

Behind the barbed wire fence at the checkpoint, a Japanese lieutenant wearing a white heat-proof hat and a grass-yellow military uniform blew the assembly whistle and roared to the soldiers to be on alert. I saw Japanese soldiers with their sleeves and leggings, either holding the "38 big cover" or carrying the "crooked handle", and they ran away from several wooden barracks not far away.

At the door of one of the barracks, two Japanese officers carried command knives and binoculars, and while looking at the situation inside the outpost, they said:

"Duanmu-kun, what do these Australians want to do?"

"They are protesting, protesting that the portions of food we give are too small and that the amount of work that is assigned to them every day is too large."

"What about the actual situation?"

"Duanmu-kun, don't look at these white people who are tall, they are actually lazy, inefficient, and have a great appetite. They are asking for more food than our soldiers are quota, and they are providing far less ore per day than we are asking for, can we agree? ”

"In this way, white Australians are no different from white Russians, they are all lazy guys, and it is better to transport labor from Indochina to raise them."

"That is, I reported this proposal to General Sugita a long time ago, and it is said that the Southern Army Command has preliminarily adopted it, and it will be implemented as long as it is approved by the base camp. Then we won't have to worry about these stupid white people! ”

"Yo Xi ......"

As the two were talking, the mighty protest procession had arrived in front of the checkpoint. Discovered half a century ago, the Kalgoorlie gold mine was once the most popular place in Western Australia with the arrival of a large number of gold prospectors, and with the introduction of machinery, mining efficiency has improved considerably. During the war, the mining of Kalgoorlie gold was interrupted, and after the Japanese occupation of the whole of Australia, thousands of Commonwealth Army and American prisoners of war, along with some civilians, were driven here to mine for the Japanese, and the same situation existed in all of Australia's mines, farms, ranches and ports.

Syllable...... Syllable......

Two crisp gunshots seemed to shake the procession, these miners with stained faces and thin cheeks were all in rags, and because of their height advantage, they basically stared at the Japanese soldiers in front of them from a bird's-eye view, the bright bayonets did give people a strong deterrent, but the harsh conditions had driven these people to a desperate situation.

The white-looking Japanese lieutenant raised the southern pistol in his hand and said in a loud voice in awkward English: "Everyone, go back to your workshop at once!" Otherwise, the punishment will be severe! This is the last warning! ”

The procession of miners marching in protest did not move, and after a few moments, a burly white man stepped out of the front row of the procession, although he was forcibly removed from his rank after being captured, but judging from the style of his military shirt and trousers and his temperament, it is not difficult to see that he was once a commander of the Commonwealth army.

"When will our conditions be met, and when will we resume work!" The white man said word by word, and the miners behind him raised their arms in response.

The Japanese lieutenant looked at this troublemaker with a ferocious gaze, and then explained a few words to the Japanese soldier next to him in Japanese. A small group of Japanese soldiers ran forward with rifles, trying to separate the white man from the miners behind them, but the miners refused to allow it, and met the Japanese soldiers' bayonets with their chests, and the two sides confronted each other, and the two sides confronted each other, and the sabre rattled with each other.

At a distance of more than ten meters, the leading white man shouted at the Japanese lieutenant: "When will our conditions be met, when will we resume work, and everything else will not be discussed!" ”

The lieutenant couldn't make up his mind, so he asked the herald to run to the barracks and ask the two officers for instructions. After a while, the herald returned to the post, and the lieutenant, after listening to his relayed instructions, immediately beckoned the small group of soldiers to return. Then, while retreating, he gave military orders in Japanese, and dozens of Japanese soldiers stationed at the checkpoint and the surrounding slopes immediately made the same action - the bullets were loaded!

Seeing this, the white man in the lead looked shocked, but it was useless to retreat at this time, and the sound of gunfire rang out like a torrential rain, echoing in the valley for a long time......

The Kalgoorlie gold mine bloody case, more than 700 American and British prisoners of war died in less than half an hour, and this is only a slightly larger of the many tragedies that occurred in Australia, based on the fact that most of the Australian residents are white, and the Japanese army's control policy is very uncooperative, the Japanese high-level decided to forcibly recruit a large number of labor from India, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries to develop Australian resources, in this case, the living conditions of American and British prisoners of war and Australian residents are becoming more and more difficult, The diplomatic and intelligence personnel of neutral countries have also continued to obtain all kinds of vicious information about the Japanese army's torture and killing of prisoners of war in Australia and the people in the occupied areas through various channels. By June 1936, on the basis of the United States' repeated reports on these events through the official media and news media, the three newspapers and periodicals with the largest circulation in Germany spoke out in unison, exposing the atrocities of the Japanese army in Australia in detail, which immediately shocked all walks of life in Europe, and the voice of the moral crusade against Japan was like a tsunami!

In mid-July, the unbearable Australian people launched a large-scale armed uprising with the secret support of European and American countries, and within half a month, the smoke of the uprising swept across Australia and New Zealand. Faced with more than 200,000 Japanese regular troops, armed with aircraft, artillery, chariots, and warships, the rebels abandoned the towns from the outset and took advantage of their advantages in the right place and place to wage guerrilla warfare against the enemy.

Although Australia's geographical environment is not more complex than the South Asian jungle, but the vast territory of nearly 9 million square kilometers provides ample space for the insurgents to operate, and before the outbreak of the war, the population of the entire Australia was close to 8 million, reaching the highest level in history, hundreds of thousands of people fled to North America during the war, and then experienced Japanese invasion and looting, Australia's population dropped to 6 million, many people moved inland from the coastal areas to escape the war and Japanese persecution, and the newly established villages and towns, The farmstead became a temporary hideout and supply base for the insurgents.

In the face of accusations and criticisms from the Western allies, the Japanese Government quibbled and covered up at the same time, and even pretended to receive a European delegation in Canberra, but behind the scenes, it was carrying out a ruthless sweep. Finding that the original forces were far from being able to cope with the guerrilla tactics of the Australian insurgents, the Japanese army quickly transferred more than 100,000 regular troops and multiple air fleets from the mainland and Southeast Asia, and at the same time tightly blocked the Australian coast with the Southern Fleet. In order to cut off the rebels' access to foreign aid, the Japanese destroyed a number of seaport towns in Western Australia and South Australia, and forcibly relocated the local population, in the process of which the Japanese not only did not provide any supplies, but even plundered the food and supplies of these residents, causing a large number of non-combat casualties among innocent civilians.

The miserable situation of white Australians has been regarded as a horrific racial persecution by European and American countries, and on the position of aiding the Australian insurgents, Germany and the United States and other countries have secretly reached an agreement to donate money and materials and form volunteers to participate in the war, and the personnel and materials are sent to the Australian insurgents through submarine shipping and airlift through the Maldives Islands under the control of Germany as a forward base. The operation, code-named "Crusader", was officially launched in August 1936, and the following month it successfully transported more than 200 volunteers and more than 1,500 tons of war materials, and by October, the number of war materials arriving in Australia had quadrupled, and the number of European volunteers who joined the Australian insurgent forces reached 1,000. However, this spurt of growth was interrupted by the capture of German water transport planes by the Japanese army in Western Australia, and under the very strong protest of the Japanese government, the Western Allies stopped their official aid operations to Australia and turned to "spontaneous actions" by civil society and private organizations. helped him through the most difficult period at the end of 1936.

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