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White is only 28 years old but he is the dean of Chungking correspondents-in fact, he has been there almost as long as General Chiang Kaishek. He was there all through the worst of the Jap air raids-was bombed from house to house and from shelter to shelter (during one horrible air raid the mangled body of a Chinese woman was blown 20 yards straight through his open window). But White's news-hunting has also carried him over much of the Far East...
...overwhelming majority of Americans (67%) feel that they can get along considerably better with Germany than with Japan after the war, the Gallup Poll reported last week. The pollsters documented U.S. hate for Japan by jotting down the adjectives citizens applied to the Jap: "Barbaric, evil, brutal, dirty, treacherous, sneaky, fanatical, savage, inhuman, bestial, uncivilized, un-Christian and thoroughly untrustworthy...
...submarines in the Pacific this week reported their biggest haul of the war: 12 Jap ships sunk, 1 probably sunk, 3 damaged. With this bag, the submarines' total came to 181 Jap ships sent to the bottom, or one-half of all Jap ships sunk since Pearl Harbor. Announced U.S. sub losses...
Australia's Air & Civil Aviation Minister Arthur Samuel Drakeford added estimates of Japanese shipping sunk by Allied action: 2,250,000 tons of warships and freight carriers. All told, the Jap was believed to have lost more ships since the outbreak of war than he had gained by seizure or new construction...
Back in the U.S. after 14 months in Australia (where he won the D.F.C.). Lieut. John T. McChesney described the first bombing raid of his squadron. On the first run over the Jap transport one rookie bombardier opened the wrong doors, dropped cots, mosquito nets, pineapple juice. Second time over he was so excited he dropped nothing. Third time he unloaded all the bombs and the bomb bay gasoline tank, too. All missed...