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The Guards to the Coast of China C

The Pacific Story · May 6, 1945 · 30 min · 4,194 words

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The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific Story. In the mounting fury of world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on ever greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and the millions of people who live around this greatest seed.

The drama of the people's who is destiny is at stake 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.

The guards to the coast of China. My name is probably high on the list of people to be liquidated, if the Japanese should win. It will probably be higher on the list after this broadcast.

Call me Winslow. I was the last white man of Formosa. You had better leave while there is still time, Mr. Winslow. That was fang surely of the Formosa Underground. underground. The wall will break out anytime. Then you will be interned. He knew he was a member of the Formosan Revolutionary League. Now, Mura and Kurosou are in Washington only

to deceive America. I was at sea bombed for the United States when the Japanese struck at Pearl Harbor. I had been on Formosas since 1937. I went there as an observer to write what I I saw. One of the first Chinese I came to know was Fang Shui Li.

There is trouble in the wind, Mr. Windslower. I was too new on Formosa to know what he meant, but I soon found out. The object of this new Imperial subject movement is to blot out our resistance and to make every Chinese unformosa loyal to the Japanese emperor.

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