Formosa Prize of the China Sea

Pacific story. In the mounting fury of world conflict, events in the Pacific are taken on even greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and the millions of people who live around this greatest sea. The drama of the peoples whose destiny has had staked in the Pacific War. Here as another public service is the tale of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to

come, or Mosa, prize of the China Sea. The Japanese call for Mosa, the stone aiming at the south. From for Mosa they launch their

attacks on the Philippines, Malaya and the Netherlands Indies. From this springboard, this stone aiming at the south, the Japanese drove the Americans, the British, the French and the Dutch, out of the southwest Pacific. Today the Japanese are solidly entrenched in this strategic island which lies 700 miles south of Japan, 200 miles north of the

Philippines, 100 miles off the coast of China. European powers first saw the value of Formosa in the 17th century. The Portuguese called it Elaf Formosa, beautiful island. The Dutch established a base on its southwest ensure. Then the Spaniards built a fort at Qui Lung on its northern shore and built another in its northwest. It was in 1641 that the governor of the Spanish

The French portless at Quillong received three of those Dutch ships at their guns trained on us here in the port governor Portilio. They have come here for trouble. They sent that boat ashore nearly an hour ago, sir.

If those Dutchmen have come here for trouble, we shall give it to them. Every man is at his post. The guns are loaded. Keep a close watch on them and let me know. See who it is.