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...MYSTERY OF ELIZABETH CANNING-Barretf R. Wellington-J. Ray Peck...
...insisted the Japanese. Furthermore, the marines had pointed loaded rifles at the gendarmes. "It's a lie," repeated Colonel Peck...
...Japanese, tardily deciding to reopen the wounds to their feelings, asserted next day that the gendarmes had been mauled by the devil dogs-beaten about the hips and legs with rifle butts, struck in the face, so that they were cut inside their mouths. Colonel Peck, a leatherneck in the classic tradition, stood his ground and flatly said...
What is more, said the Japanese, the gendarmes were slapped when they talked or spat from their bleeding mouths. And they were "forced to squat." "They got," said Colonel Peck drily, "the same consideration and treatment as any man we arrest-including a medical examination...
...Japanese were furious. They pasted anti-U. S. handbills in the streets, hired coolies to demonstrate. Both the Army and Navy spokesmen declared Japan grievously insulted. Newspapers screamed. But Colonel Peck wisely held his position, realizing that the conflict would soon degenerate into a petty hunt for lost face. It soon...