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There was no doubt that something new had been added to Japanese air power. Tokyo recently broadcast that three new types were in action. The types: a patrol plane, the Shite (the doer); a heavy bomber, the Donryu (the destroying dragon); and a fighter, the Shoki (Righteous Purifying Spirit). "In annihilation operations," Tokyo boasted, the new planes had "made the enemy America and Britain shiver with fear...
...Laverne Leroy, suspected parole violator, with his shirt down. His identifying tattoos: two American flags, a rising sun, a shield with an eagle, a bird, a rose, a butterfly, two stars, a sailing ship, a crucifix, an Indian girl, a heart, a spread eagle, a ballet dancer, a dragon, a sail boat, a girl's head, some flowers, a brace let, three hearts, a setting sun, a Pearl Harbor scene, three race horses, and the legends: "U.S.A. 1931" and "Manila...
...races, so called because the boats have carved dragon heads on their prows, take place on many rivers and lakes. In Chinese homes the day is observed by the use of charms to ward off bad spirits that cause calamities...
Suddenly down the steep bank rushed one of the boatmen, shouting and waving a dragon's red-and-gold head and twisted tail. Drums and gongs beat madly, rockets hissed, the galleries roared-and the race was on. Twice across the river the rowers strained. In other times, the crews decided the outcome by fighting. Now, from a judges' junk, the winners received their prizes: bright red sashes...
...government, was slandered and exiled. Heartbroken, he composed his famed poem Li Sao (Dissipation of Sorrow), then on the fifth day of the fifth moon drowned himself in the Mi-Lo River. Legend relates that kind fishermen tried to recover his body, thereby began the custom of the dragon-boat races. But in Chungking last week the festival's origin was less in mind than the chance it gave for a few hours of play, the feeling it gave of China's ageless endurance...