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...most concerned to read your May 28 reference to our S.S. City of Chicago [photographed by U.S. Navy patrol planes sent out to check on ships suspected of carrying cargoes into Siberian or Chinese ports...
...They're Not Fooling Anyone." The big Privateer buzzed the lumbering freighter almost at the mouth of a major Siberian harbor. Some crewmen caught on deck waved, probably in embarrassment. Or maybe you only imagined that, because you'd be embarrassed. Others scurried for hatches and doorways...
Back in Japan we had leafed through the files. We had seen hundreds of ships photographed, heading for Siberian or Chinese ports. Many-perhaps the majority-flew the Panama flag. But there were also pictures of British-one incongruously named City of Chicago-Greek, Russian, French and Japanese ships in the telltale files. All had been snapped since the first of the year. Some had deck cargoes-lumber, steel. Others were laden with oil for the tanks of Red China. Some were shown coming back empty...
...left Siberian waters and headed down the coast toward Japan. Out at sea, Lieut. McCord lifted the ship several thousand feet. It was dark when we landed. Lieut. Commander Nittinger was waiting for us. He invited us to stay for dinner...
...Japanese used to say that Russian Vladivostok was "a dagger" pointed at their islands (the Siberian port lies 680 airline miles northwest of Tokyo). Since World War II's end, another Russian dagger has been poised, even closer to Japan: the island of Sakhalin (600 miles long, 75 miles wide), separated by only 26 miles of sea from the northernmost main Japanese island, Hokkaido. The lower half of Sakhalin once belonged to Japan; it was turned over to the Russians by one ot Yalta's secret deals...