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<A HREF="http://www.lvcybermall.com/book/">The Gold of the Sun</A>
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The Gold of the Sun
A Reality Based Fiction
Brief Outline Of the Chapters
BOOK ONE: THE WAR YEARS
Chapters 1 - 2
Top military and government officials meet in Mukden, Manchukuo in late
1936 to discuss the forthcoming war with the Chinese, Americans,
Netherlands and French. The Emperor of Japan and others had developed a
plan to finance the expansion of their military and to construct the
ships, planes and other military hardware that would be required in
ordered to implement their plans.
In December 1937 Japan had openly declared war on China and had
surrounded the Chinese Capitol of Nanking. Prince Chichibu, the younger
brother of Emperor Hirohito had been selected to head the ultra secret
treasure recovery team. The Prime Minister, Prince Asaka had come from
the Emperor with instructions to fully implement the plan. This led to
the Rape of Nanking and the death of 300,000 Chinese civilians and
military. Many had been tortured to reveal the locations of treasures
and summarily executed. This secret team was given a code name of the
Golden Lily after a poem the Emperor had once written. 6000 metric tons
of gold were recovered from Nanking alone plus silver and precious
stones. It was a good beginning and acted as a training ground for the
secret team. Emperor Hirohito was pleased.
Chapters 3 - 4
Winston Churchill, the wartime Prime Minister of Great Britain, met with
Lord Beaverbrook in July 1940. France had just fallen to Hitler's
blitzkreig. The Germans had amassed their troops in the ports of France
ready to cross the English Channel and invade Britain. Churchill had
learned that the French had transferred their national treasures to
French Indochina just before they had signed an armistice with the
Germans. He had also learned from the Queen of The Netherlands that they
had moved their treasures to the Dutch East Indies. He and the King of
England decided to move the British treasures to the supposedly safe
island fortress of Singapore off the southern tip of the Malay
peninsula.
A year later Japan had sunk most of the American Pacific fleet with a
sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. By early January 1942 Japan's victories
had been nothing short of miraculous. Guam and Wake Islands had fallen.
Japan had assimilated Thailand and the northern part of French
Indochina. The Japanese had launched a vigorous invasion of the
Philippine Islands and were pushing the Americans into a final defensive
position on Bataan. Her armies were fighting their way down the Malay
Peninsula approaching Singapore. Although the Japanese were encountering
little resistance they were greatly outnumbered by the British and
Indian troops. In China, Japan had taken most of the major port cities
and on Christmas Day 1941, had forced the British into surrendering Hong
Kong. The Golden Lily team had been greatly expanded to handle these
rapidly changing situations. It is fair to say that they were actually
overwhelmed.
Emperor Hirohito had requested Prince Chichibu to fly to Hanoi in French
Indochina to meet with his younger brother Prince Mikasa. The Japanese
secret police had learned that France had sent their National Treasures
there.
But, where were they hidden? Prince Chichibu had ordered the torture of
the Bankers and former Diplomats in order to find out. They learned the
treasure had been sent to Saigon by rail just before the Japanese troops
had moved into Hanoi. The treasure had been hidden in the ruins of an
ancient temple at the end of track. The excitement of this recovery was
only overshadowed by later events.
Chapters 5 - 6
The fortress of Singapore fell to General Yamashita and with General
MacArthur being ordered out of the Philippines, the last American and
Filipino troops on Bataan and Corregidor surrendered to General Homma.
The infamous Death March began. The Japanese victories on all fronts
were extremely heady. They began to believe in their own invincibility.
Burma was now in Japanese hands and invasion plans had been drawn up for
a move into Northern Australia. Asia and Southeast Asia and most of the
Islands in the Pacific were as good as theirs.
Prince Chichibu in Singapore was elated when his team found the
treasures of Britain stored in the banks. The collection of wealth
throughout the conquered lands continued. With over 5000 years of Asia's
antiquity to pillage, the amounts collected were astronomical. Far
surpassing what was thought to be the total amount of gold ever mined
throughout history. With Shanghai in their hands the Golden Lily team
found themselves stretched to the limit in keeping up with the
collection and melting down of the precious metals.
Another surprise experienced by Prince Chichibu was the discovery that
the Dutch had moved their treasures to Batavia in the Netherlands East
Indies. Now, not only did Japan have the wealth of the Asian continent,
but they were rewarded with much of the European treasures as well.
Hitler's loss was Japan's gain.
Japan's luck had begun to run out by May 1942. Their first setback was
the Battle of the Coral Sea where the Allies had forced Japan to turn
back her invasion fleet which they had planned to land in New Guinea.
The following month they suffered a further major setback with the
Battle of Midway where Japan lost four of her front line fleet carriers
and the cream of her trained aviators. These were the same ships and
pilots that had attacked Pearl Harbor five months earlier. In August
1942 the Americans landed an invasion force on Guadalcanal. Japan tried
for months to dislodge the stubborn American Marines but eventually had
to concede this unknown but important island base. After that Japan
could never again launch another major offensive anywhere. The war would
continue for another three years while the Japanese slowly lost the
lands that they had conquered. Japan's dream was over and their
nightmare had begun.
By mid-1942 American submarines and aircraft had begun to take a serious
toll on Japanese shipping. Prince Chichibu could no longer send the many
tons of treasure back to Japan with any guarantee that it would get
there and not end up on the bottom of the ocean floor. Actually he had
to revise his thinking about where to send the treasures after the
Midway fiasco. Following a meeting with his brother, the Emperor, it was
decided that the treasures should be hidden in the Philippine Islands.
Why the Philippines? Because Japan was certain that they would end up
with these islands during surrender negotiations with the Allies. Also,
it was the shortest distance from Hong Kong and Singapore where the
material was being processed.
Prince Chichibu had begun shipping material to the Philippines even
before this decision was made. It was originally intended to be sent on
to Japan in returning war ships. The Prince was still nervous about
these shipments even after the decision was made. He commandeered four
large freighters and had them painted all white with a red cross on
their sides. These were "hospital" ships which he loaded with the many
treasures. To be absolutely sure that even these ships were not molested
he announced their movement on a clear radio channel so that the
Americans would know their times of departure and their courses.
Chapters 7 - 8
Prince Chichibu had moved his Headquarters to Manila in the Philippines.
He had entrusted his younger brother Prince Mikasa and his cousin Prince
Asaka to continue the collection of the treasures. Before he left he had
begun to cut up the many golden pagodas and Buddhas which were being
melted down and poured into 75 kilo bars. This amassing of the treasures
would continue until Japan ultimately surrendered.
Prince Chichibu was now faced with new challenges. Where and how to hide
the treasures so that they could not be accidentally discovered after
the war. The Prince was not as certain as his brother, the Emperor, that
Japan would end up with the Philippine Islands following their defeat.
He decided that these treasures would have to be hidden in deep, well
engineered tunnel systems. He had no experience in mining and basically
that was what was going to be required.
Major Nakasone was the only member of the Golden Lily team who had any
mining background. He had studied mining engineering but never had any
on the job training. He sent for him anyway. In the meantime he asked
The Emperor for help and he responded by having someone locate twenty
experience men in underground excavation in Japan who were quickly sent
to the Philippines. If the Prince needed more workers, he would have to
get them from the Filipinos. In addition the Emperor had reminded
Chichibu that the POWs of the Americans and the British contained a lot
of engineering experts especially those who served in the construction
battalions.
Manpower was the least of his problems. There were thousands of POWs who
the Japanese considered expendable. If that wasn't enough then there
were millions of Filipino males that could be used. As soon as he
received his experts he immediately began work in a dozen locations.
While this was going on the treasure ships were arriving weekly and
their precious cargo had been added to the other treasure already stored
in heavily guarded warehouses. There were other problems; the movement
of the cargo from the ships to the warehouses attracted a lot of
attention. Chichibu decided to construct an underground tunnel system
from the piers to the warehouses which were in the capture American base
named Fort McKinley. Eventually this tunnel would branch out under
Manila and run for 35 miles. The entrance was in Intermuras, the ancient
walled city of the Spaniards, which was near the docks. It terminated at
MacArthur's headquarters in Fort McKinley.
Prince Chichibu had to make some other major decisions. Why not hide all
the treasure in one large location? The Emperor had answered that
question. Security!!! Too many people who had worked on the location
would know where it was, also if someone should accidentally find the
location all would be lost. Early on the Prince had made the decision
that except for a few foreign engineers the entire work force would have
to be exterminated. The next question was where could this work be done
where the local population would not be aware of what was going on
there. Japanese military bases were perfect. Only the military had
access to them and most bases had POW camps nearby. Prince Chichibu
visualized that when the Americans returned to recapture the Philippines
that there would be massive bombings. The map makers needed permanent
landmarks in order to relocate these sites after the war. The Americans
had shown in Europe that they would avoid bombing historical buildings.
The four hundred year old historical Spanish Churches and fortifications
were perfect. But just to make sure he would house American POWs in
them. Mainly women and children. He would then arrange for clear radio
communications to announce this fact. It worked, the Americans spared
these sites.
Major Nakasone was at Fort Santiago, a 16th century Spanish
fortification, collecting slave labors from the Kempeitai Headquarter's
dungeons and torture chambers. One of the physically strong Filipino's
he selected was Leopoldo Giga. Nakasone knew a Colonel Kantaro Giga who
was one of his instructors at the military academy. Out of curiosity he
decided to personally interview Giga. He found him an intelligent, 28
year old, who spoke fluent Japanese. He also learned he was a nephew of
his academy instructor. Giga's father was the brother of the instructor
who was a minor diplomat who had been attached to the Japanese Embassy
in the Philippines 1913. Giga's mother had met the Diplomat and had
become his common-law wife. Another advantage that Nakasone found in Gi
ga was that he spoke two of the main dialects of the Filipino people.
Instead of making him a slave laborer he assigned him to his staff. Giga
came to the attention of Prince Chichibu who had him commissioned as a
sub-lieutenant in the Imperial Army. He was sent to Japan to attend
schooling on tunneling and inventorying the treasure. He returned a
Captain and worked on most of the treasure sites.
Prince Chichibu was in Nueva Vizcaya in early 1942. He was examining a
major excavation outside of the town of Bambang. He and his staff had a
young Filipino boy who had come down with a fever and had died. He had
been a houseboy who did the laundry of the Prince and his staff as well
as kept their boots and other equipment cleaned and polished. He sent
his aide out to locate a replacement. The Aide came back with a 14 year
old uneducated farm boy whose name was Benjamin Valmores. During the
next three and a half years Valmores traveled with the Prince to many of
the sites. He learned Japanese and a smattering of English. He was never
allowed to go down into the tunnels, but he watched them being
constructed and filled with the treasures. He and Giga would survive the
war.
As the war reached its inevitable climax in early 1945 the Japanese were
receiving more treasure than they could prepare sites for in which to
hide it. Their warships became useless due to the American
air-superiority, so they loaded them with these newly arrived treasures
and pretended they were being sent back to Japan. Instead the Japanese
deliberately sank or scuttled these ships and machine-gunned their own
men so that the ships would go down in predetermined locations and no
witnesses would be alive to to tell the tale. There were thirteen of
these planned sinkings. Some of these went down in Manila Bay; others
were sunk in not to deep Philippine Waters throughout the archipelago.
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Aloha, He'Ping,
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Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
Amen.
Roads End
Kris
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