Word: guam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington the Japanese Embassy was informed by the State Department on another point last week. Recently the Japanese Foreign Office heard that on the minuscule island of Guam, Pacific coaling station for the U. S. Navy. a Japanese citizen had been forced to give up his property. The inquiry was shuffled from the State to the Navy Department where Secretary Swanson explained that under a law passed in 1918. no foreigners may own real estate in Guam. The Japanese had just transferred his property to his daughter-in-law, a U. S. citizen, and now everybody was happy. ¶ Foreign...
...most notoriously disreputable of all China's war-lords." For killing a U. S. missionary in 1920 he was later "pardoned," by whom nobody knows. His most notable reputation is for cowardice. As Governor of Hunan he reduced the province to a state of beggary. Guam Outrage. Japanese newspapers last week noted a U. S. "outrage." To Guam Island six months ago came 112 Japanese laborers on six-month permits. When the permits ran out Guam's Governor, U. S. Navy Captain Edmund Spence Root, refused to renew them according to Tokyo's Kokumin Shimbnn. Somebody appealed...
...former Marion Spore of Bay City, Mich., redhaired, fortyish Mrs. Bush (sister of Naval Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam) has been a practicing dentist and a practical philanthropist, known in the penny press as "The Angel of the Bowery...
...clear decision, the U. S. suffers a severe and costly reverse when it unsuccessfully attempts to seize the Bonin Islands, 500 mi. south of Japan. From Samoa as a base it has better luck when it takes Truk Island in the Carolines. With dummy battleships it feints at Guam, later at Yap. The latter gesture, as planned, brings the Japanese Grand Fleet at top speed from Manila. The U. S. Battle Force cuts it off, forces it to fight. In a major engagement near Yap the Japs are hammered to bits, losing five capital ships...
...announced, is going "southward of the islands composing the territory of The Empire" in August instead of October. This statement was taken to mean that battle practice will be held among the Caroline and Marshall Islands which Japan took under mandate from Germany after the War. In that event Guam will lie in the thick of the Japanese maneuvers as a possible target for simulated attack. Japanese warships will be operating on the direct route between Manila and Honolulu. Vice Admiral Osumi tried to soothe U. S. alarm at such a prospect...