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Lest we forget. In December 1937-but four years ago-the Jap Army conquered the capital city of China. . . . Forty-two thousand people were murdered. Many were tied together in batches of 50, sprinkled with kerosene and set on fire; thousands were used for bayonet and sword practice by the Jap soldiers...
...Otosugi Saito, back home in Tokyo, could not have been much surprised by the first news he heard from the N.E.I.: that within two hours of the attack every Jap in the islands had been interned; that the Dutch were in action and that one of their submarines had started things going by nosing like a blind mud cat through the shallows on the east coast of Malaya and had sunk four Jap transports. For by now he knew that the Dutch in the Indies were, like his onetime friend Hein ter Poorten, pleasant, poker-faced, indomitable, prepared...
They had gone into action at the drop of the Jap's hat in Pearl Harbor. By now Hein ter Poorten was a lieutenant general. He had been Commander of the N.E.I. Army since October, when General Berenschot was killed in an airplane crash. His planes ranged far out to sea, attacked and sank Japanese ships. They worked closely with the N.E.I. Navy, which was at sea. The Navy commander, Vice Admiral C. E. L. Helfrich, a shorter, stubbier, seagoing edition of Ter Poorten, had sent the fleet out days before...
With the uneasy prescience that comes with proximity and imminent danger, mindful of many an instance of bland Jap duplicity, the Dutch, instead of putting faith in the Japanese conferences with Cordell Hull in Washington, had got ready to fight...
...Doom Jap Aggression...