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...down another heavy force. It had tanks, and tanks were sent out to meet it. In a heavy engagement both sides suffered considerable losses on a battlefield between 60 and 75 miles from Manila. From Lamon Bay the Jap thrust toward the southwest, flung himself across the narrow peninsula south from Mauban to Tayabas...
...enemy had at first been grossly underestimated, not only as to numbers but also as to ability. It had never occurred to the British that little men in shorts and gym shoes could actually filter through Malayan jungles. Japanese forces had apparently made contact all the way across the peninsula: even across the central mountain-spine. The middle jungles had previously been the domain of the dwarfish Sakai, a hairy, blow-gunning people who travelers say are so primitive that they have digits only up to two and count: one, two, many, many-many, many-many-many. The Japanese bribed...
...Patrolmen stamped out brush fires on the Olympic Peninsula, said they were set in the shape of arrows pointing toward Seattle and the Bremerton Navy Yard...
...Japan that strategists have long envisioned, and, if Russian air bases were put at U.S. disposal, might bomb Japan's main naval and industrial establishments. From Alaska the U.S. Navy might punch air raids into Japan's northern advance base at Paramoshiri Island, south of the Kamchatka peninsula. From Guam and Wake, regained, U.S. Army and Navy Air Forces could bomb the Japanese mandated islands and begin to forge a chain that would be stout and confining...
...which followed the four-minute talks by each speaker, all agreed that if Japan could take Singapore the attack on Pearl harbor would appear to be very strategic. But they split on the question of whether Japan might be able to take Singapore. Howe said that the thin Malayan peninsula, with its thick jungles, made a successful land attack more improbable than "Hitler taking Europe"; Chamberlin and Reischauer were not in accord with this view, and Chamberlin pointed out that the Japanese had been trained for jungle fighting...