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Sunk in addition to the cruiser were two cargo ships, a tanker and a trawler. These successes, accomplished "somewhere in Far Eastern waters" were independent of operations in the Solomon Islands, where American se and air forces racked up a smashing victory against a Jap armada last weekend and where Marines launched a new land offensive on Guadalcanal Island...
Hart had deployed his Asiatic Fleet as far south as Borneo before the war began. He contends it would have been "footless" to bring his destroyers and cruisers into Luzon waters after control of the air had been lost. Twice-at Balikpapan and Bali -the Asiatic Fleet stalled the Jap drive southward, but (after Hart was relieved) "disaster soon followed and in the end we lost heavily-the Houston [cruiser], Pillsbury, Edsall and Pope [destroyers] were all lost in surface ship action at sea under circumstances about which we know little . . . yes, ships were lost, but it was not footless...
...Yenching University, near Peiping, was the biggest, richest and best-equipped Christian university in China. Then Jap soldiers seized its $2,500,000 campus, one of the world's loveliest, put its President J. Leighton Stuart in "honorable confinement." Last week, as it has done each autumn since 1920, Yenching began a new semester-in Free China's Chengtu, 2,000 miles from its old campus. The new Yenching, though it had lost its President, had many of the same faculty and students, the same standards of untrammeled scholarship. Educated Chinese were as elated as Frenchmen would have...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent a check for $10,000 to Jap-tortured James Benjamin Powell, editor (until Pearl Harbor) of the China Weekly Review. His feet mutilated as a result of his mistreatment, the once-husky editor has been abed since he reached the U.S. in August. Into a fund originally intended simply to pay Powell's hospital expenses have already gone: $7,000 from the National Press Club; $3,000 from Chinese newsmen in China; $1,700 from the Overseas Press Club in Manhattan; more besides...
...Director Stevens: "In these times the only actor that I would like to direct is Sessue Hayakawa. . . . Some of you old-time moviegoers remember him. . . . Well Sessue, if this gets to you in Tokyo . . . here's an offer for you. Slip into the mouse-green uniform of a Jap general and some fine sundown when we get over there we'll take a shot of you climbing up to that high point on the island of Corregidor where the flagpole stands . . . and from the top of that shell-scarred mast you'll pull down your meatball flag...