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...night, Japanese soldiers poured into the International Settlement and along the famous Bund. A Japanese destroyer eased up to the British river gun boat Peterel, fired three red warning lights, a minute later opened fire and set it burn ing blackly. Then the destroyer proceeded 100 yards downstream and captured the U.S. gunboat Wake, which had been partially dismantled and was being used merely as a consular wireless station. The flag of the Rising Sun was unfurled from its aftermast...
...lumber company's dam. There would be a dark flash barely under the water, an explosion of water as the fish broke into the air, perhaps 15 feet, and then, if it fell back, a moment when it lay stunned before the current carried it back downstream...
...dark, on the Charles River last night that Tom Bolles didn't know whom he had rowing on the last eight which pulled away from the Newell float and headed into the downstream gloom...
...work of Lear's engineers. Trying to force a crossing of the Sabine River near Carthage (45 miles south of Shreveport), they found that the red-necks had blown up everything usable. But Colonel William H. Morris, commander of the 66th Armored Regiment, learned of a ford downstream. He led his regiment down a dirt road toward the river, and ran into a slambang battle that for two hours threw the 66th back on their caterpillars...
Seventy two hours later they saved themselves with an old woodsman's trick -finding water, going doggedly downstream until they stumbled out of the wilderness...