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...days later a new patrol mushed out to Rat River to avenge Constable King. Albert Johnson had used the interval to turn his hut into a blockhouse. He had dug the dirt floor out to a depth of four feet, cut loopholes at the floor level. For 15 hours Albert Johnson held off the Mounties. Hand grenades blew the roof off his hut. Albert Johnson retired, like an angry woodchuck stern foremost into a dugout, kept fighting. The police retired, disgruntled...
...third time a police patrol set out from Aklavik, but this time Albert Johnson had fled from Rat River, was trying to beat his way through the arctic winter to Alaska and safety. Followed the north country's greatest man hunt. Trappers rushed their wives to trading posts for safety, then joined the posse...
...zero hour approached for Admiral Richard Henry Leigh's Blue force to cross a deadline and commence hostilities, the defensive Blacks, surmising that the attack's spearhead would aim at Honolulu's Pearl Harbor naval base, sent skeleton columns of soldiers, sailors and marines to patrol the coast of Oahu and guard against a surprise landing. Actually mobilized to defend Hawaii were 20,000 men, 17 sub marines, four light mine layers, two mine sweepers and 45 aircraft under Major General Briant Harris Wells, commander of the Army's Hawaiian Department...
Tuesday. Nanking, the Nationalist capital, lies 210 miles up the Yangtze. A river patrol of seven Japanese destroyers is stationed there. Without warning, their commander began bombing the city which was simultaneously plunged into darkness except for searchlights which wavered fearfully from the Chinese airport. Enormously strengthened by the arrival of 30,000 fresh troops the day before, the Chinese garrison was nonetheless unprepared for the attack. Earlier in the day, the Mayor said he had been assured that no offensive would be launched. To avoid possible misunderstanding, sandbag barricades, erected at strategic points within the city, had been taken...
Simultaneously eight riot calls were turned in at Honolulu. A Marine detachment from Pearl Harbor was called out while sailors in dungarees fought civilians about the streets. With order restored, the Navy canceled all leave while its shore patrol was doubled...