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Recently three Japanese crabbers, from the fishing vessel Fumi Maru, were said to have attempted to land at Cape Kronotsky, Kamchatka, in a small boat in search for water. Spy scares are thicker than crabs on the cape. A Soviet patrol was reported to have surprised them, shot them down. In Moscow Japanese Ambassador Tamekichi Ota instantly demanded permission for the Japanese Consul at Petropavlovsk to board the Japanese destroyer Tachikaze, visit the scene of the affair and make a report. It was refused on the grounds that the Tachikaze was a warship, but the Consul was given permission...
Japanese militarists have sworn to take Ozaki's life; failure to do so would mean for them a tremendous loss of "face." No sooner was his steamer, the Terukuni Maru, inside Kobe harbor than police arrested three members of a terrorist club attempting to board the ship. Dr. Ozaki smiled at his two pretty daughters, then stepped down the gangplank to a waiting automobile. Other amateur assassins were on the dock. Two of them broke through a police cordon brandishing heavy cudgels, shouting "Wait, Ozaki, wait!" They too were arrested. Unruffled, Dr. Ozaki agreed to return to the ship...
...group housed in the 138-acre pink-&-white Olympic village (with eight running tracks, nine swimming pools, eight wrestling and four boxing arenas, two weight-lifting pavilions, one football field) were the 300 U. S. team-members. Next most numerous were 106 Japanese who arrived on the liner Taiyo Maru. Cheered by 1,000 Los Angeles Japanese, they refused to let deckhands carry their paraphernalia. Three days later, Los Angeles Germans cheered even more loudly for 104 of their countrymen who arrived in yachting caps, blue coats, white trousers. Of the 60 Mexican team-members, eight were Indian long-distance...
Messages from the Lindberghs insisted that they were in no danger and intended to spend the night in their plane which has broad leather seats at the rear of both cockpits but no room to stand up or lie down full length. Nonetheless, the Japanese Government steamer Shimnshiru Maru was on hand off Ketoi next morning. The Lindberghs were glad to go on board; the Colonel described the previous night as "the most uneasy in my experience...
...Cunarder turned south from her North Atlantic lane; the Japanese freighter Toledo Maru came heavily about to go to the rescue; just over the horizon a Cuban sugar tramp crawled patiently on, having no wireless...