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...young Tasmanian signalman named Joe Loveless went to work. The force settled in bamboo huts, watched the sun rise and fall, played cards, taught natives to sing Lambeth Walk and Lead, Kindly Light...
...April 15 Joe Loveless came up with a weird machine in a four-gallon kerosene tin. It had been assembled from parts of a weak transmitter, a native's receiver and a few pieces of wire, put together with a bamboo soldering stick. But it worked. Joe Loveless called Darwin...
Their most embarrassing lack, for a time, was paper. They had to use cigaret papers, bamboo bark and banana leaves. Then one day the considerate Japanese showered their bivouac with printed broadsides demanding surrender. The Sparrows were grateful...
...girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials." Surrounded by poor children, Salvador wore "a sailor suit with insignia embroidered in thick gold," always carried a "flexible new bamboo cane adorned with a silver dog's head...
...will form the home front army which we must fight when we invade Japan, is the notorious Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto. Seigo Nakano, who was a next-door neighbor of mine, is a director of the organization. From the second floor of our house, we could see over the high bamboo fence into his garden where often the Black Dragon functionaries would gather. The police who "protected" his place often came to eat in our kitchen when they wanted foreign-style cookies or rare coffee...