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Only last week did news get out about what happened to three British seamen who, one day early in October, took a taxi ride in Keelung, on the Japanese island of Formosa. At the end of the ride, the driver had his three passengers jailed on the charge of not paying their fare. When they resolutely denied the charge, four Japanese policemen held them down in turn while Japanese detectives beat each man in the face. Under this treatment two of the three British tars agreed to sign a declaration that they were guilty. The third, although...
...this episode was reaching its climax, into the Keelung police station marched Lieut. T. A. Pack-Beresford of the British flotilla leader Bruce, to demand the seamen's release. "I have obtained unquestionable proof," he said, "that these sailors paid their taxi fare." Snarled one of the Japanese police officers at Lieut. Pack-Beresford: "You say you're a British officer. We say you're nothing but a drunken sot. Get out of here...
...record. Third contestant in the race-that-was-not-a-race, New York Journal's Dorothy Kilgallen, took a special plane on the home stretch from Alameda to Newark, completed her circumnavigation in 24 days 12 hr. 51 min. Sticking strictly to commercial schedules, except for one taxi ride from Bologna to Brindisi, Timesman Kieran made the trip in 24 days...
Less philosophical and consequently more confused are the Japanese policemen. Tokio possesses the largest red light district in the world, covering a square mile, but instead or protecting the wild life in this valuable preserve, the constabulary has begun to crack down and has closed the taxi dance halls, so called. That this is but the first move in a drive to clean up Tokio for the Olympic Games visitors in 1940 is proof positive that however much they may themselves believe it, the Japs do not as yet thoroughly understand Western civilization. Mayor Cermak or any other executive...
...whirl and a dash around Boston. Take hundreds of taxis, pay hundreds of taxi-drivers. Lights, bad music, bad drinks, enthusiasm subsides. Dash around a little more and home...