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WASHINGTON--American airmen, hammering Jap positions northwest of U. S.-held Guadalcanal, have staged their 78th raid on the big enemy base at Munda and scored bomb hits on a transport and corvette off Vella Lavella Island, the Navy disclosed today. Both of the enemy vessels were left burning...
...Jap advances on fronts scattered from northern Kiangsu to the Salween River on the Burma border might be the prelude to the final campaign to knock exhausted China out of the war. Indeed a Tokyo broadcast threatened just that...
...Kempei. A grinning, politely deferential squad of bespectacled officers arrived at the power plant. "Everybody was supposed to go on doing his duty, and acts of sabotage would be punished by death. Then they said that whoever would not agree with this should please step forward. They had six Jap soldiers lined up with drawn swords. Nobody moved...
They slept on the stone floor, ate rice and stringy meat, had to bow to Jap soldiers. Sometimes the soldiers slapped the Dutchmen in the face and stamped on their feet. The Kempei, Japanese version of the Gestapo, took over the police department, rounded up most of the white male population and hustled them off to camps. (Some of the prisoners were later released, but another roundup put most of them back in again. ) For eight days after the fall of Java a Bandung radio station played the Dutch national anthem at the end of every evening's broadcast...
...Three "A"s. Dutch women were not molested. Despite incidents of Jap arrogance, the treatment of the white population was, on the whole, not brutal. Jap soldiers put on a humble, even shy manner, saluting and grinning at the whites and asking favors with a "sorry" or a "please." Ruthless brutality was saved for the native Javanese...