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The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific Story. In the mounting theory 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 scene.

The drama of the peoples whose 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.

Blood for an outlet to the sea. This is Port Arthur. Port Arthur is on the Lao Dung Peninsula, the southernmost tip of Manchuria, jutting down into the Yellow Sea.

You've heard about the Lao Dung Peninsula. That's where the Russians and the Japanese fought it out back in 1904. You're likely to hear a good deal more about it. Dark days are looming over Lao Dung.

The Japanese hold the Lao Dung Peninsula today. They've been holding it forty years, practically speaking, ever since they took it from the Russians in the Russo-Japanese War. We want Manchuria back. That's what China says.

Manchuria belongs to us. We must have it back to be secure. It does belong to China. But Russia has an interest in it. And Japan has it. Manchuria will be returned to China. That's what the Cairo Conference announced in December 1943.

But Russia was not represented at Cairo. And this is what Russia is saying about Manchuria and the Lao-Dung Peninsula today. That gives you a rough idea. Russia has been interested in the Lao-Dung Peninsula for 50 years.

The way to promote Russian interests in Manchuria is through friendly relations with China. This is Yulia-Bitch-Sergie-Witte. Uh, Ms. Yulwitte. Uh, would you mind telling our radio audience when you lived? From 1849 to 1915. 1915? Oh yes. So that in 1895, when you were pulling the strings for Russia in the Far East, you were 46 years old. That is right. I became Minister of Finance to his Imperial Majesty