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Vice and deputy consul-general at Rio de Janeiro, 1903-4; vice consul at Nagasaki, Japan, 1904-5; consul at Vladivostok, 1905-7; vice president in the Far East of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1927-29; acting director of Peiping Union Medical College, 1927-35; member of the American Society of International Law, Council on Foreign Affairs, and the Oriental Association; general director of the China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...China blasted at Japanese-held objectives, ground forces of the Chinese took two pearls of potentially great price. They pushed the enemy back through Chekiang Province and retook two of the finest military airdromes in China; one at Lishui, only 700 miles from the great naval base at Nagasaki; another at Chuhsien, only a few bomber steps farther. China knew what could be done to Japan from there...
...They have lost at least one (the old Haruna). So the Japs probably have eleven battleships in service today-considerably more than the U.S. regularly bases in the Pacific. But in tonnage and fire power the fleets have somewhere near parity; and, if the Jap battlewagons are scattered from Nagasaki to Ceylon there is always the chance that a bold move by Admiral Nimitz might catch up with a weaker Japanese unit...
Conversely, the Japanese have deliberately put themselves in a spot encircled by hostile possessions. The ABCD powers -American, British, Chinese, Dutch-surround Indo-China. The Japanese line of supply is now a 2,000-mile sea route from Cam-ranh Bay to Nagasaki, and U.S. planes, submarines and surface vessels operating from Manila could make it an uncomfortable route. To reach Indo-China the Japanese have to pass through one of two channels-the 150-mile channel between Formosa and the mainland or the 235-mile channel between Formosa and Luzon-where patrols can keep a good lookout...
...When Despatch's men boarded her, Emmy's men opened her seacocks, scuttled the prize. Despatch passed through the Canal into the Pacific, perhaps to chase the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, which was believed to have rounded the Horn. Two German freighters which had taken refuge in Nagasaki, Japan since war's outbreak last week hastily changed their cargoes of soybeans for fuel...