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Most Buddha relics are in Siam and in Japan's great shrine at Mt. Hiei. Buddhists attach no miracle-working powers to them. When Bishop Masuyama arrived in San Francisco on the Taiyo Maru, he and the precious bonelet were escorted by numerous Buddhists to their drab, unimposing Temple at Pine and Octavia Streets. All the Buddhists meditated quietly. Then the Bishop took Buddha's bone to his nearby home where, because of its great value, he planned to keep it until a suitable new temple might be built...
...Francisco, customs agents boarded the Japanese ship Tatsuta Maru, got 17 oz. of morphine...
...like rubbish. An hour later it was gone, northward, but behind it came a tidal wave, to flood Osaka, Kobe and the carpet port of Sakai. It swept over a leper hospital and drowned 200, over an insane asylum and drowned 50. It tossed the 4,000-ton Batavia Maru onto a wharf, jammed the Ural Maru up a stone-curbed canal and drove the Zuiho Maru into the Customs House. As Osaka citizens fled past the Iron Works toward higher ground, the pursuing water tried to drown the red-hot blast furnaces. The explosion killed a score, injured...
...with brightly printed pamphlets such as Dream of War Between the United States and Japan by fire-eating Lieut. Commander Kyosuke Fukunaga of the Imperial Navy, retired. Last week horrified U. S. customs men at Honolulu seized 77 boxes full of this Japanese classic aboard the crack liner Chichibu Maru, name-ship of Japan's Crown Prince...
According to Dreamer Fukunaga the loyalty to the U. S. of the 140,000 Japanese residents of the Hawaiian Islands in the event of war would be "speculative." It was to them that the Chichibu Maru was carrying 77 cases of Dreams, seized by the U. S. customs as "treasonable...