Word: formosae
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...terms of captured territory, Japan made all its gains south and west of Formosa and the Carolines in less than a year. The Allies, on the other hand, have spent a year sending that little sprout up from Moumea to Guadalcanal and Munda and those tiny arterioles out from Port Moresby to Finschhaven in the north and to the Woodlark Islands off Milne Bay in the east. The difference is that no one was dug in to delay the Japs, whereas the Japs, who are diggers extraordinary, have consolidated themselves. Their arteries are hardened...
...Compulsory military service has been decreed for Formosa, peopled largely by Chinese...
Territories. Manchuria (see below) and Formosa, must come back into China. Korea must be independent. "Part of Indo-China used to be Chinese territory and there are some Chinese living there. But we have no aspirations with regard to Indo-China, Thailand or any other place of that sort." Asked whether China would claim Hong Kong (from the British), Diplomat Soong answered: "If I were a member of your Government in Britain, answering questions in Parliament, I would say 'I must have notice of that question...
Japan announced that it would abide by the Geneva Convention (which it never signed) but so far has refused to permit representatives of the Swiss Government or Red Cross to visit the camp on Formosa where General Wainwright and many other Americans are interned. Unless the Japs decide to loosen up, the Army presumably will not learn until after the war how many (if any) yen and sen "Skinny" Wainwright and his comrades are getting...
...Pilot Kurtz the war began on a sunny day at Clark Field near Manila when the news of Pearl Harbor had just begun to sink in. The exact moment came when the pilots were waiting for orders for their first combat mission: a reconnaissance of Formosa, which they could not attack because the U.S. Congress had not yet declared war. From the direction of Formosa, as they knew they would, some 70 Japanese bombers came over and blew Clark Field to hell with a beautiful pattern of bombs, unmolested from the air, little molested from the ground. Twenty-four Flying...