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...salvage men's trickiest task will be the raising of the light cruiser Kiso, sunk in Manila Bay in November 1944, by U.S. aerial torpedoes. Listing to starboard, her bow in the air and her stern in 25 ft. of mud, the Kiso lies with her ammunition magazines intact...
...months of sleuthing, bolstered by a proffered $100,000 (Hong Kong) reward, Hong Kong police issued a warrant for the arrest of one Chow Tse-ming, a $25-a-month airfield employee who had helped clean out the plane during its stopover, and, presumably, planted a bomb in the starboard wheel-well. Because the actual deaths occurred far beyond the Hong Kong police jurisdiction, Chow could only be charged with "conspiracy to murder" (maximum penalty: ten years). They would also have to find him. One month after the air crash, Chow fled to Formosa...
...fathoms off the starboard...
...hour . . . the young and inexperienced imagining that they saw lights and heard breakers, the officers testy and irritable, and the Admiral calmly keeping vigil") or of a convoy in the 1940s ("Around the columns is thrown the screen like a loose-jointed necklace, the beads lunging to port or starboard and then snapping back . . . each destroyer nervous and questing, all eyes topside looking, ears below waterline listening, and radar antennae like cats' whiskers feeling for the enemy"), Sam Morison could write as one who was there...
...after a stopover in Hong Kong) to the Bandung Conference (TIME, April 25). Verdict: sabotage. Having salvaged almost 90% of the wreckage from the shallow waters off Great Natuna Island in the South China Sea, the commission said that it found "positive evidence of an explosion in the starboard wheel-well of a timed infernal machine." The evidence consisted of 1) "deep pitting by shrapnel." 2) "a hole blown inward into the No. 3 fuel tank." 3) "four parts of a twisted, burned and corroded clockwork mechanism that has no relation to any equipment or structure of the aircraft." These...