Word: formosae
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...Vice Admiral Kenkichi Takahashi, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Combined Fleets, said last week: "It is likely that Japan's economic advance in Manchukuo soon will reach its limits, and, therefore, the Empire's future commercial expansion must be directed to Southern Seas, with Formosa or the mandated islands of the Equatorial Pacific as bases. In such event, the cruising radius of the Japanese Navy must quickly be expanded so as to reach New Guinea, Borneo and the Celebes...
...Released in Formosa were three adventurers arrested last fortnight. William Shinn Gates, 28, Annapolis graduate who was retired from the U. S. Navy for his health, wanted to look for treasure and see whether the women of the Babuyan Islands really outnumbered the men 20 to 1. With a German named Wrede and a Russian named Roubin, he was arrested at Taito, Formosa, because their ketch The Flying Dutchman was blown ashore suspiciously near two Japanese war boats in the Taito harbor. This looked to the Japanese like a real threat but it soon fell apart and the three were...
...years before the U. S. took Cuba from Spain, Japan took the Island of Formosa from China and kept it. Japanese citizens, however, do not like Formosa, and only enough Japanese live there to take out the oil, timber and camphor. Last week, far beneath the earth's surface, some internal ailment seeking relief exploded a volcano in Japan, shook Alaska, rumbled down the Chinese coast, crossed the shallow Formosan Strait and rocked Formosa with the Far East's worst earthquake since...
...tumbled the Chinese mud houses by tens of thousands, killed more than 3,000 Chinese, injured nearly 10,000. Estimated damage: 10,000,000 yen ($2,860,000). But since the few Japanese live in light wooden houses that shake without falling, scarcely a Japanese was hurt. More important, Formosa's earthquake left practically untouched Japan's oil fields and naval fortifications. Relief workers who swarmed over the scene reported that an astonishing number of Formosans had gone mad. The head-hunting "Green Savages" of Formosa, who had danced to their gods just before the quake struck, looked...
...major catastrophe always seems to follow Japan's acquisition of new land. After the Sino-Japanese War, which added Formosa, the Pescadores Islands, and the puppet Kingdom of Korea to the Empire of the Rising Sun, the earthquake of 1896 killed 27,102. After the Russo-Japanese War and the acquisition of Port Arthur, the Kwantung Peninsula and the southern half of Sakhalin, the Formosa earthquake of 1906 killed 1,228. After the Treaty of Versailles gave Japan a precious bagful of Pacific Island mandates, came the terrible earthquake of 1923 which killed 91,344. And three years...