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...Overlanders (Rank; Universal-International) is an Australian horse opera that has documentary force. In 1942, when Australia looked every day for a Jap invasion, the Australians decided to scorch their earth. The Northern Territory, some 520,000 square miles of land containing only 5,000 people and a million head of cattle, began to burn its houses, shoot its bullocks and head south...
...fall of 1941, in response to a new plea from Mme. Chiang, he attempted to return, was caught by the Japanese in Manila, where he signed the internment register as "William Donald of Scotland." A Jap officer, tipped off that Donald was in the camp, looked at his name and said: "This is not the man. We are looking for W. H. Donald of Australia...
Bill McDougall, the expose reporter, is resting up from the war which he spent for three years in a Jap prison in Java resting up from a previous career covering airplane crashes out of Salt Lake City...
...Guam's Apra Harbor 2,100 Japs marched aboard a Jap-manned transport en route to their homeland. By December 50,000 more-the last U.S. prisoners in the Pacific-will be returned. Some 90,000 British-held Japs will still remain, and the Dutch have announced that they intend to keep another 13,500 indefinitely in Indonesia for dockside and other heavy labor...
Author Hoberecht's plot was simple, sentimental and surefire: in captured Jap strongholds in the Pacific, War Correspondent Kent Wood found faded pin-up pictures of an almond-eyed cinema star (who looked a lot like Movie Actress Yetkiko Todoroki, good friend of the author). Later, in Tokyo, they met and fell in love. But they had to woo in secret, for her studio forbade fraternization. When another correspondent was murdered by a former Nazi spy, Hero Kent Wood was suspect. His girl friend tossed away her chance for a big role by confessing that she was with...