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...Trespassing" signs on eleven islands and one bay in the Pacific, Alaska and Caribbean defense areas. After May 14, Culebra Island, off Puerto Rico; Guam, Rose and Tutuila Islands in Samoa; Palmyra, Johnston, Midway, Wake Islands and Kingman Reef (stepping stones between Honolulu's Pearl Harbor and the Philippines); Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii; Kiska and Unalaska Islands, off Alaska, will be forbidden ground to all but U. S. armed forces...
Promptly a Japanese spokesman made another peaceful statement. In the elaborate Japanese Embassy, Ambassador Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura leaned back in his chair before more than 50 reporters and talked affably for 45 minutes about Japan's policy, about her indifference to U. S. improvement of the harbor of Guam, about the absence of Japanese desire to seize any territory. But even Admiral Nomura would not deny that Japan might fight to gain her ends. And the new Ambassador confessed that he found the U. S. atmosphere not so favorable as he had hoped when he left Tokyo...
Westbound Pan American Clipper passengers over the Pacific look down on Guam with relief. Its rocky bluffs rise over the water; 30 miles to the south, dim Mount Sasalaguan looms; its peaceful, prosperous villages, policed by the Marine Corps, make it a spectacularly successful example of U. S. colonization. At this time of year the rainy season is ending; travelers take their ease on the long porch of the Pan American Hotel, overlooking the harbor...
...clock one morning last week catastrophe struck Guam. Roaring out of the typhoon belt, a big wind sheared overland at 110 miles an hour, wiped out the banana crop. 90% of the coconut crop, all garden crops-chief livelihood of some 20,000 natives-smashed the Pan American Hotel and U. S. Navy hangar, left 40 American families and 15,000 natives homeless. When it was over, Governor McMillin called for Red Cross aid. First reports indicated that the typhoon approached the scale of the great blow of 1900. But that storm cost 20 lives; last week's, none...
shot, a rifle bullet across the bow of a German cutter in the harbor of Guam...