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...appalling scene sent newsmen scurrying from the wharf to fill luridly indignant columns. For four days the story raged. High Army brass seemed to think it was all a teapot-tempest. "Conditions," they said, "are no worse than the Japs accustomed others to." At Canberra the Government seemed to share this eye-for-an-eye philosophy. Officials turned their faces resolutely away from a blizzard of protesting telegrams, tried vainly to shift the blame to the Jap authorities, MacArthur, the Chinese or anyone else handy. Complained one M.P.: "The Government should have forbidden the press to cover the story...
...that day Pauline Hutt tried to launch a 12-ft. boat. Three times the lashing wind and waves smashed it back on shore. Finally, after dark, she and the boy got away. She pulled on the oars, lost one, somehow made the two miles through ice floes to the wharf near her parents' home. Neighbors brought James Hutt's body ashore...
Twenty years later, a man who claimed to be his brother spent weeks probing the sands of storm-swept Great Brewster Island off Boston with long steel rods. He told a wharf bartender, a lighthouse keeper and a peg-legged man named John Nuskey that he was hunting a map, key to a treasure which had been buried by the King...
Last week, two months after the surrender, the first Allied ship was unloaded at a Cherbourg wharf. Its cargo: eight locomotives and 24 freight cars-to get more supplies moving...
While the Crimson Varsity was losing to the coast Guard, the B-team was belting out a 7 to 4 win over a team from constitution wharf on the scrub diamond...