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...Restricting even generals' cars from the road unless they carried coral, the engineers kept up a round-the-clock shuttle, delivering a truckload of coral every 40 seconds. Then they surfaced the coral with asphalt mixed in a plant built mainly from odds & ends of a shell-shattered Jap sugar mill...
Emily's international incident (a girl) was born just before Pearl Harbor. When the Japs marched into Hong Kong a few weeks later they clapped Major Boxer into jail, questioned Emily. "Why?" screamed the Jap Chief of Gendarmes. "Why you marry . . . Chinese, then . . . have baby with Major Boxer?" "Because I'm a bad girl," said Emily...
Slap for Slap. Fortunately for Emily, the Japs greatly respected Major Boxer's record of wily diplomacy: "Everybody say British bad, Boxer okay, girl friend okay," they told Emily. But Emily remained her unpredictable self. She gave Jap officials English lessons in return for food, even went to dinner with them ("People [in New York] raise their eyebrows at this attitude, but nobody in occupied territory would. I wish you could have a month of Japanese-occupied Hong Kong"). Once she got tipsy, slapped the Jap Chief of Intelligence in the face. He came...
...that I have suffered a lot, and I often wonder in what cause." But unabashed Emily, now living in New York with her daughter, was making postwar plans to return to Major Boxer, who, she reports, plans to marry her as soon as he wins freedom from: 1) a Jap prison camp; 2) his wife...
...average Jap soldier (5 ft. 3 in., 117½lbs.), is five inches shorter, some 28 lbs. lighter than the average G.I. Nevertheless he can lift a 150-lb. weight to his back without spreading his legs; a Jap battalion can march more than 20 miles a day; special patrols have been known to cover 60 miles on foot between midnight and the next afternoon...