Word: seabirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australia. The sender was a merchantman raider which, just before making good its threat, hauled down the Japanese flag, ran up the Nazi swastika. None of Nauru's 3,400 inhabitants (194 Europeans) was hurt, but warehouses and platforms loaded with Nauru's main product-guano (seabird droppings) for explosives and fertilizer-were thoroughly shot up. British naval circles identified the marauder as one of several German ships known for weeks to be operating in the western Pacific, probably supplied from Japan or Japan-controlled China ports. A Japanese spokesman said that the reported use of Japan...