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Tokio dispatches, published on the front pages of many American newspapers, to the effect that the recent eruption of Asama-Yama, Japan's largest active volcano, was a catastrophe, were denounced as Axis propaganda designed to foster false optimism among the United Nations by L. Don Leet, assistant professor of Seismology...
...Leet stated, Asama, Japan's most treacherous volcano, erupted violently with disastrous effects, and it has been constantly active ever since. Consequently there is no reason to believe, much as we would like to, that this eruption is a prelude to a period of menacing volcanic activity in the enemy's camp, the professor concluded...
...elsewhere in the Americas, including plenty of boring from within in Mexico. Awaiting further instructions from Berlin, Dietrich and his staff of 30 Nazis hoped to set up headquarters in another Latin-American country, perhaps Guatemala, where 34 additional agents en route to the Americas on the Japanese steamer Asama Mam might join them...
Last month an anonymous British cruiser fired across the bows of the Japanese liner Asama Maru, only 35 miles off Japan's naval base of Yokosuka. From the Asama Maru a British boarding party took 21 Germans, judged to be of military age and ability, returning from U. S. employment via Japan and Siberia to Germany (TIME, Jan. 29). These the British interned at Hong Kong. Japan fumed. Great Britain cited her rights under a convention of 1909 (never ratified) which says that persons liable to military service for an enemy may be removed by a belligerent from neutral...
Interesting to the world as a high-policy byplay, this Asama Maru incident was fascinating to the 512 former crew members of the scuttled German liner Columbus, who, last week, were still dawdling deliciously on San Francisco's Angel Island: exercising, playing games, eating three bulky U. S. meals per day, fishing for pogies & perch off Angel Island stringers and smoking the catch for 'tween-meal tidbits, going to one movie a week as guests of the U. S. Army across the island at Fort McDowell. Now that they might not travel in Japanese ships, as planned...