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...surprise of the 1932 Olympic Games at Los Angeles was the Japanese swimming team. It scored 66 points unofficially, far more than the U.S., which paddled a poor second with 29. One of the breaststroke stars on the Jap team was a crop-haired lad named Reizo Koike. The Japanese announced last week that Reizo Koike had trained a school of swimmers who churned across the narrow waterway between Kowloon and Hong Kong, located British mines, exploded them with rifles, made possible crossings by Japanese troopships...
...Hawaiian Islands the Japanese fifth column worked so industriously that its most flagrant espionage was table talk among Army and Navy people. From a wharf a few miles from the Navy Yard, Jap fishermen in motorboats put out to follow the fleet in battle practice. By night they often turned up inside the deadline around Pearl Harbor's mouth, hissed apologies and withdrew when they were hailed by the patrol destroyer...
Last week Honolulu was fluttering with stories of fifth-column activity. One story was that a display advertisement in a newspaper, ostensibly pushing bargain sales of silk, was actually coded instructions to spies. Another was that a Jap saloonkeeper was shot beside his shortwave transmitter during the Pearl Harbor raid. There were many others, and the average Honolulu citizen did not know which was true and which false. But he did know one thing: fed on tolerance, watered by complacency, the Jap fifth column had done its job fiendishly well-and had not yet been stamped...
...greatest compliment the Chungking conference could be given-since it recognized the threat of joint Allied action in southeast Asia-was paid by the Japanese. They started a new offensive in central China, aimed at much-aimed-at Changsha. The Jap, despite the only proven use of gas in World War II, had already failed three times to take Changsha. This time he may not be so anxious to get that provincial capital as to get Chiang's mind off cooperation...
...using many of them in the Libyan push. In Crete, scores of British-and Greek-owned M-H light tanks fought mightily before being blasted to bits by Nazi bombers. Dutch-owned M-H tanks and gun carriers now plough through the jungles of Sumatra in pursuit of Jap paratroops...