Word: domei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tokyo said that around Surabaya, The Netherlands' fine secondary base on Java, 150 mines had been swept to open the way inside to Japanese naval units. Domei said that plans were already laid for salvaging 53 Allied ships sunk or beached near by. Even discounting Japanese claims. Allied commanders in Australia knew that Surabaya would soon be turned against them...
From Fort Changi, Singapore, now an internment camp for British Imperials, a wide-eyed Domei correspondent wrote last week...
...official Japanese news agency Domei last week attributed this statement to Japan's naval Commander in Chief, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, in "a letter which Yamamoto sent to a close friend, dated Jan. 24 this year." In announcing his intention of invading the U.S., Admiral Yamamoto echoed an extraordinary warning issued in 1909 by an extraordinary man named Homer...
Last week Japan's Domei official news agency admitted trouble once again in Taiwan, reported that 190 people had been killed in another earthquake. More important than what happened to 190 Japanese was what happened to south Taiwan air bases, from which bombers take off to Luzon, 235 miles distant. About the air bases Domei said nothing...
...packed his tough 220 Ib. in a bullet-proof vest, bought a .45 and carried on. During the last two years he observed the handiwork of Tokyo's German advisers in coordinating stations in Manchukuo, Nanking and Shanghai with Tokyo's Government-operated Station JOAK and its Domei News Agency line of talk. Latest and ugliest trend in that talk: that the Japanese are fighting the yellow man's battles against the white...