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...Snow Red was avoiding reeducation. When the reinforced troops reached Taichu, she and two truckloads of men drove into the cool green mountains of the interior near Jitsu-Getsu San (the Mountain of Sun and Moon), toward shelter among the Formosa aborigines, whom neither the Manchus (in 212 years) nor the Japs (in 51) could ever reeducation...
...land and people. Formosa made Japan the world's fourth sugar-producer; it yielded enough rice to feed all the Mikado's armies as well as coal and tin, gold, silver and copper; teak and camphor (70% of U.S. mothballs) and aromatic Oolong tea. At mountain-ringed Jitsu-Getsu-Tan-Lake of the Moon and Sun-the Japanese built the nucleus of a power system that put Formosa industrially ahead of the Philippines...
...jitsu trick and somewhat erratic marksmanship were all that had saved the President. When Avila Camacho stepped from his Cadillac limousine at the ground-floor entrance of the Palacio Nacional, he was accosted by 1st Lieut. José Antonio de Lama y Rojas, son of a wealthy merchant from the President's home state of Puebla. As the President turned to enter the private elevator, the 32-year-old lieutenant pulled a .45 revolver, blazed away. Before a second shot could be fired, the President grasped the assassin's wrist, twisted it until the gun clattered...
Naval Sci conditioning will consist of such pastimes as jin jitsu, boxing, wrestling, cross country running, the obstacle course, calisthenics, and rope climbing-all designed to make abler ensigns...
Lamar has also begun instruction in basic Jiu Jitsu tactics, stressing punches outside the regular rules of boxing which can be used to knock out an opponent with one blow...