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The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-11
CHRISTMAS AT THE CIRCUS" x
 PRESERVED HERE:

erly executed performance was the Juneau Grade School operetta, Christmas at the Circus present. ed last night in a crowded Grade School auditorium and to be re- peated at 7:30 o'clock this evening. Admission is free.
 For amusing and remarkably competent home talent plus the l ingratiating charm of childrens programs at Christmas time, an hours time could not be more profitably spent
 1 Ringmaster Bill Forward an d Santa Claus Jimmie Tripp are pivots around whom whirl suc- cesSive array of bears, monkeys, ponies, trapeze artists and clowns all realistically costumed in suit able garb.
 Outstanding performances are those of the tumbling clown, the singing popcorn girls, nd the trained animal act.
 Children from every grade are participating in the operetta, and include Tony Horn as Tony; Ed win Heisel as Toto; Joann Wolfe and Georgine Shanklin as accom- panists; David DeLong, violinist: Anne Mauer, Joan Krane, accor- dionists; trape2e artists Mary Lou Fagerson, Margita Meier, Lor- etta Keithahn, Sarah Jane Line han; Bears, Jim Sprague, Donny Ben Burford, Manuel Diaz, Dick Forrest, Lee Nance, Fred Schmitz Dick Keithahn, George Messer- schmidt, and Harvey Clauson.
 All tricked out in pale green and yellow. are the popcorn girls: Evelyn Holman, Donna Jewett. Sylvia Hubbard, Sylvia Davis, Lois Lawrence, Erna Stendar, Irene McKineley, Carlee Roberts, Lola Hegstad and Bobby Jean Few.
 Clowns David Satko, Billy Sper- ling, Jimmie Sofoulis, Erwin Butts Eddie Brostrom and Dale Rolf are howlingly funny; and the "ani- mals," Frank Maier, Henry Ander- son, Roland Shanklin, Robert Son. mers, Robert Rhodes, John Chris tianson, Gerald Hill and Frank Hughes, give a snarlingly realistic performance Paula Kay Cook is the young lady who courageouslv permits the huge elephant to step over her, and animal trainer Reg gie Kleweno cracks the whip in realistic style.
 Monkeys who sing and dance are Arlyss Likens, Bobby Waugh. Donna Gould, Agnes Hared, Myr- tie Hughes, Lorne McAlister, Roy Peratrovich, Billy Orme, Sandra Garvin, Dorothy Roberts, Joan Rhodes, Ilene Starbard, and Eliza beth Rekosh.
 Galloping ponies with red tas- sels are Katherine Bavard, Lois Fossum, Donna Olds, Sonia Sheep- CT, Pat Oakes, Charlotte Mason. Roberta Messerschmidt Joann Sa- bln, Sharon Sharpe, Josephine Hared, Bonita Bell, Sue McMul- len, Iva Jean Schuttpelz, Adelia Pagaran.
 Bon bonss chocolates, licorice, marshmallows and other candies in appropriate dress are Laureen Arlows, Beth Daigler, Sylvia Lis ter, Pat Waugh, Beverly Junge, Alberta Carlson, June Ransopher, Joan Williamson, Joan Lesher, and Bonita Clark.
 Russell Clark, August Avoian and hoy Gray are the stage crew, and MISS Monson's entire second grade performed as the band
 The operetta is under the di- rection of Mrs. Merle Janice Pitts, musical instructor in the school.
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SIP TS SHOTS
 JERRY BERT BAKER

There is a big game of football tomorrow afternoon, a big time game. the winner to go to the Rose Bowl. The game is to be played i'll Los Angeles between Southern Cali fornia and UCLA You pick the winner-it's easy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-11
SONS OF NORWAY MEFTING-CARD PARTY

December 12, Odd Fellows Hall. Meeting, followed by third of series Card Pary. Benefit for Little Camp Norway. adv.
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Oregon State goes against 0u' Marys Navy tomorrow afternoon in San Francisco. It's just another game, off the record.
 Incidentally we are going to see good basketball game right here in Juneau tonight in the high school gym, in fact doubleheader with a curtain raiser The Crim- son Bears take on the Douglas Huskies and the Wages go against the Cheechakos. The curtain raiser, starting at ' o'clock, is between the JHS scrubs. and the Douglas scrubs.
 The Sigacs came to the front last Wednesday night in a game with the Falcons winning by a score of 50 to 34. This shows the Signal Corps boys can click on the maple floor as well as at their keyboards or keys.
 One of the finest passing games was that between the Army when they met Notre Dame recently Eastern writers agree with this columnist that the Cadets were faced by a passer whom many re- garded as the best in the land Yet his whiz, Angelo Bertelli, could complete only four of 13 passes for a miserable total of g yards That, buddy, is what I call good Army defense.
 Hank Borowy, the New York Yankee freshman pitching star knew what to do with his World Series check. He turned the check into war bonds the day he re- ceived it.
 Here's a good one for you yard birds and others: "Wrestlers crouch" is the latest occupational ailment Army doctors have to cope with, according to Capt. H. s. (Sam) Francis, the Fort F. E. Warren quartermaster training center. Francis reported that Pri- vate Christ Gestrich of Chicago former Illinois amateur champ, said he had trouble standing up straight because I have wrestled so much that my regular standing position is a crouch, in order to be ready for a hostile move by an opponent"
 The Chicago Cubs will do their preliminary spring training next season at Mesa, Ariz., according to an announcement made.
 Add to the growing list of short ages r. cauliflower Meaning tn e luxuriant puffed-ear variety which result from stopping left hooks. Not in the memory of boxing fars down in Seattle have they seen such dearth of ringmen, Al Hos- talk being the latest to desert the ranks by trading his boxing tools for a rifle. Harry Kid Matthews is the Last of the Mohicans. In years past, there were always half dozen well known ring names in the vicinity, pining for action. They seemed to come in punches and by weights. Freddie Steele and Hostak, Wildcat Carter and Cecil Payne, Dode Bercot and Ted Krache, etc That insured lively competition, and a number of 1oo tt1ro1c
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EYES EXAMINED

and BROKEN LENSES replaced in our own shop. pr. Rae Lillian
 Carlson. Blomgren Bldg Phone 636.
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Elderly man or couple to take over this Post Office per- manently. Good home with vari- ous opportunities. Address Post master, Fanshaw, Alaska.
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WANTED

WANTED BY BOY = Job after school and Saturdays. Had 2 months experience in cabinet shop. Write 20. Box 1251, City
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WANTED TO BUY-Amateur pho- tographic and development equip ment. Phone red BOP evenings.
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Hank Borowy, the New York Yankee freshman pitching star, knew what to do with his World Series check. He turned the check into war bonds the day he re- ceived it.
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FOR SALE

5-ROOM fully furnished house, full basement, Broom apt. up-
 stairs. TAG West 18th, evenings.
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FOR RENT

4-ROOM house on Basin Road. Call Black 100 from to pm. BROOM furnished apt, 1865 Seat ter Tract. Phone black 479 from 8 to pm.
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Oregon State goes against St, Mary's Navy tomorrow afternoon in San Francisco. It's just another game, off the record.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-11

A volcano in the New Hebrides is generally in eruption every three or four minutes.
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4-ROOM partly furnished house. Phone 67 after pm.
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REGISTERED Chow pups, Cres-
 ent Apts., No g. Phone 131.
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MISCELLANEOUS

OUR BARBER shop prices are the same as ever. Haircut 65 cents, shave 35 cents. Bob Light Bar Der Shop.
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WANTED-Dairyman helper, good
 wages Write NM 1782 Empire.
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FIVE CENTS each, pad for used
 yunny sacks at Coal Bunkers.
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The Sigacs came to the front last Wednesday night in a game with the Falcons winning by a score of 50 to 34. This shows the Signal Corps boys can click on the maple floor as well as at their keyboardS or keys.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-11

TURIN your old gold into value,
 cash or trade at Nugget Shop.
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GUARANTEED Realistic Perms nent. s5s0. Paper Curls. q up Lola Beauty Shop. Phone 90l. 3lh Decker Way.
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GARAGE-Call green 234.
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WANTED-Will pay cash for good used piano. Phone red 206, Alaska Music Supply.
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The Chicago Cubs will do their spring training next season at Mesa, Ariz., according to an announcement made.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-12-11
10sT and FOUND

LOST-Twc keys Cn chain with rabbit's foot attached. Kindly re- turn to Empire.
Arkansas State press., 1942-03-13
If WE UNDERSTOOD

COULD we but draw back the curtains
That surround each others lives,
See the naked heart and spirit,
Know what spur the action gives,
Often we should find it better,
Purer than we judged we should,
We should love each other better,
IF we only understood
Could we Judge all deed by motives,
See the good and bad within,
Often we should love the sinner
All the while we loathe the sin;
Could we know the powers working
To Ger throw integrity,
We should juded each others errors
With more patient charity.
If we knew the cares and trials,
Knew the effort all in vain,
and the bitter disappointment,
Understood the loss and gain
Would the grim, eternal roughness
Seem wonder Just the same?
Should we help where now we hinder?
Should we pity where we blame?
All we Judge each other harshly,
Knowing not lifes hidden force;
knowing not the fount of action
Is less turbid at its source;
Seeing not amid the evil
All the golden grains of good,
Oh. we'd love each other better
If we only understood.
Arkansas State press., 1942-03-13
Volunteer Defense

w. II. Bass, Chairman, and j.
A. Cowan. clerical assistant OF
the Pulaski County Volunteer De-
Tense Council of Greater Little
Rock, announce that already class
es lave been started in First Aid
and Home Nursing and In the near
future there will also be classes
n Air Raid Warden duties, after
which other classes viii follow. In
the immediate set-up is the So
fety and health campai IN and tic
leaders are urging you to cooper
ate with them in special Clean
Tn Campaign, showing your 10y
atty by removing rubbish IRON
your premises, in their effort t'
have a city clean, beautiful an'
healthy,
Arkansas State press., 1942-03-13
SOCIETY SKETCHES

Well folks you BETA come on
right because this Friday the 18th
night mean bad luck forever. OF
course all days are bad luck days
for some folk. The Jimmy Lunce-
ford Dance was quite enjoyable
but as usual Joe Louis and his twin
brother were there in the form
Of a fistic a la Royal -. WITH the
Movies Make it your business
to see "The Fleets In, when it
hits your neighhorhood theatre :.
starring glamorous Dorothy La
mour, British Sailor William
Holden and a supporting cast in
Guiding Jimmy porsey's DIRK IL.
Don't miss Dangerously They
Live" with John Garfi I'D Nancy
Coleman and Raymond Massey /.
Gene Tierny will rival "Dotty' La
mour when she wears sarong las
a rat'ye girl in the picture, "Son
of Fury"
THE RADIO .(Colorod Pro
grams). Tune in on IS outhern
Rivers" heard each Friday night
around HOS, over radio station
WKY, Oklahoma City On
Sunday morning at $3.50 (CBS-
KLRA) get your usual "W1ngs
Over Jordan" and at that same
hour some Sundays tune in on the
South e1naires originating over the
Arkansas State press., 1942-03-13
BY JACKIE"

Blue Network your station KTHS
Hot Springs
And Slightly Changing The
Subject
What do you suppose Geleve
Grice would do without his camera
+. The James Lees, 1901 w.
30th, are the proud parents of a
son, Woodrow Luther. Mrs. Lee is
the former Maxine Graves .
Is vt really true that Miss +. Y.
has completely taken Miss H. A.
out for the heart of the certain
Boy in Brown? l.. Sgt. James
Knox Of Helena, Ark, stationed
at Camp Robinson, seems to be
doing alreet for himself; fer a
home town boy, he is on schedule
/. We wonder about the young
lady at home If he really
went to see her this past Sunday
that means Miss B on Gaines St..
has strong Competish. About
IS young ladies went out to Camp
Robinson this past Monday to enter
tain the soldiers, who We're sup
posed to leave town, but since the
soldiers are still there, it seems
that the girls will have to do the
job all over again Mr.. Da-
vid Clayborn might soon take as
his theme song, "You Can't Hold
A Memory In Your Arms" +.
The girls at the State Press and
So Recorder Office were all it,
terry after a certain Sgt. Curry
ION his way to Camp Livingston
La.) stopped by the State PRESS
office Will it I've Wedding
Bells soon for Mr.. T. E. Tins.
AGENT and Miss on Rock St.. {.
Miss S. T. was seen out for din
ner again Watch out, Miss i.
and exposure comes next t,me 4.
Mr.. J. got his wires all crossed last
week ard caused a righteous blitz
Who is the Boy in Brown,
we hear Miss L. B. Up. S. c. SEN
| Tor talking about so much .
Miss r. II. returned home wearing
two rings y Now, just villa
can this mean We hear she still
has fond memories Of the WILDER
force Frat Man Miss L. u
wacky over some Cat WHO WI te
her from St. Louis Who I
this supposed to be Mrs. j. c. II
who writes a certain young lady
-. Nuff sed If it keeps VI
we will expose (Mrs. Mr. TAX
your choice wonder WHIP
has happened to our friend An
pustine-I haven't seen him IN
Arkansas State press., 1942-03-13

The debate started on a w.
9th St. bus and Mr.. Wilburn was
so engrossed in what he was say
ing, he passed his corner !.
Wl,at has become of Mr.. l.. DE-?
Oh, well, why wonder when you
already know a certain thing
Oh! well, just got an invitation to
visit the Zoo, so until next week,
when | bring you one Of those
strange animals, | am,
Your old friend,
Jackie"
Arkansas State press., 1942-03-13

long time. Probably he decided to
quiet down after having been tax
en- out SO much himself Be
like me, take it, my good boy
We wonder how the educational
debate between Mr.. w. ]. Walker
and Mr.. Wilhurn of PSC came out
Arkansas State press., 1942-03-13

Orchids to Miss Edna NJ. Doug
las, progress. Ye chairman OF the
Ways ard Means Of the Pan Hell
lenc Council, Much Of the sue
cess of the recent POT POURRP
sponsored by tbs Council was due
to tie efficiency and hard work Of
Miss Douglas
Soror Douglas, Dunbar High
Scaool teacher, is Ep.sto.eus Of
Theta Sigma Chapter, Sigma Cam
ma Rho Sorority. Her portrayal a
a Red Cross Nurse in he tahleau,
presented by Sigma Gamma Rho
Sorority, was veiy effective.
Arkansas State press., 1942-03-13
MMA Dy Tee xSEH aUTIEDOE M&.i
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Phones
S9BS
Dy Tee JNSEH RUTLEDOK

THE FUN LOVERS CLUB MEET The Fun Lovers
Club met at the home of Mr.. and Mrs Leo Balls on West
18th Street. Februar 81 After brief and well plan
ned business session. music and social hour enjoyed
by the memler The host and hostess served very
paatable rela The 1t meeting, whi1h Will be Social
one will be 1t the home Of Mr.. and Mis- Eugene Dom
1920 lizard Street
TIE NJ " GIBBS SCHOOL pTA The NJ W. Gibbs
School PTA viii have its annual Night meeting in the audi
forum of the school Tn rsday, March 10 at 1880 p M
special program is being arranged by the primary teachers
and pupils ard large attendance of fathers well
r1others is expected hid up your sefrespect and the
respect Of your children for you by attending the PiA
Signed, PRINCIPAL and Teachers of Gibbs School.
THE MODERNISTlC CLUB MEETS The Modernlst-
ic Club held its first semi monthly meeting on Tuesday
Night vt the home of Mr. and Mrs Douglass with Mrs
W. Holloway hostess This is the first business meet
ing of the club since the Clubs year began and officers
were elected The President Mrs L. L. Jones, opened the
business with vim and vlgor The new Sgt at Arms
Mrs. A. Moore active duty The club looks forward
TO bigger and better year than ever before. Plenty oil
ideas submitted and the program for tins year
seems enjoyable than The hostess, Mrs Hoo-
way usual served very appetizing menu Before late
the members adjourned Mrs l. {. Johnson reporter
Arkansas State press., 1942-03-13

THE BEAUTICIAN CLUE No Q will
meet Sunday at p. m at Mrs. Ruth
Waters, 1902 f, Second Street. Plans
for the Spring Financial Drive will be
formulated, the goal is a Trade Show
in the future Mrs. M. Neeley, presi
dent. Miss Glads Scott, secretary.
A fine christian spirit was mani
Tested among the members Of the stf
Street Baptist Church when they set
.,bous &c "stofs' Mrs.. Aana Harris g
9Th and Cedar Street. Mrs Harris losi
practically everything she owned by Q
resent fire which destroyed her home.
These friends have gathered many
Arkansas State press., 1942-03-13

boxes of household goods etc. for her. Is your contrb
ton in Of the boxes If not contact officers of the sth
ST. BAPTIST Church.
CONGRATULATIONS We extend to Mr.. L. T. Mosely
congratulations his recent marriage the surprise of
the month. An ideal couple Happy voyage!
The Jolly Sixteen Whist Club met Tuesday night at
the beautiful home of Mrs James Harrison 14l0 Roosevelt
Road Five games Of whist played with Mrs James
Lee, winning first prize The hostess served delicious
fried chicken plate with all the trimmings Jonqus
in profusion everywhere making pretty picture.
VISIT HOT SPRINGS Mrs M Powell and Mrs. Jas.
Harrison moored to Hot Springs recently The occasion
being the Races. little birdie they Suffered loss
es"
CHANGING YEARS BRING CHANGES: Our tastes
change mature. Little girls like painted dolls, little
boys like soldiers When they up the girls like the
soldiers and the boys like the painted dolls Selected
Arkansas State press., 1942-03-13
North Little Rock News
BY Nancy Ola Parker
Phone 2-253l

A THOUGHT IT is good plan to examine ourselves
occasionally. We will do well to ask ourselves ard
then what those with whom associate think Of
life. This will keep us conscious Of Inconsistencies. 1t
viii make orr lives more transparent
Evening star., 1942-11-12

/ saw On Batlan was 1t. r. A. Sellers
Of Decatur. Ala.
For some reason while sitting
there III the broiling Philippine sun
awaiting the arrival Of the Japs
I remembered m old adage Of Ma
poleon: "A soldier only surrenders
to the enemy when he is individually
taken prisoner" The adage ran
through my mind for 10 minutes as
I tried to reconstruct ali / knew
about Bataan and the Philippines
how and where I should strike II
wanted to escape.
I called over one Of my Filipino
ieutenants and outlined my idea
to escape by boat to q neighboring
province and then into the noun
tains. He enthusiastically volun-
teered to take his chance with me
and ran of for a hasty conference
with two Filipino privates from my
battalion. They favored. the plan,
too, and promised to guide what
ever craft we could f1nd to the safest
spot they knew.
We slipped out of our regimental
assembly point within seconds of
the arrival Of the Japanese con-
querors. There wasn't time for q
seconds delay, for the roads and
jungles were becoming almost alive
with enemy soldiers. We hid out
near Limay until darkness while
Japanese forces stalked back and
forth only few yards from our
hideout. At 8 o'clock that night we
began zigzagging our way to the
beach, where, after considerable
fruitless searching, we finally To-
Gated a small banca (native boat
which seemed in serviceable condi-
ton.
With much of Bataan behind us
Evening star., 1942-11-12

many Of their mechanical units to
founder In our carefully conceived
pitfalls. It was at least Z moral
victory for us and We cheered Justify
even as We ducked shells.
On the night Of April 9. with
drawal was ordered. It would have
been better five had stayed where
we were. Every trail along which
our units retreated was constantly
bombed and strafed and the cas-
ualties were enormous. It was
horrible ending to our months Of
battle on Bataan.
The White Flag.
Early on the morning Of April 9
we received the orders which closed
our five months Of unceasing war
surrender all arms and raise the
white flag. Every one must know
how we felt. We couldn't believe
It, wouldn't believe it, and yet We
knew In our hearts it was true. /
don't think there was any real re-
joicing to know it was over-not
the way it had ended for us.
The Filipinos were bitterly hurt
that they hadn't been able to defend
their homeland, and they blamed it
on themselves, not us. Americans
like myself had the same senti-
ments, except we felt that we'd been
let down somewhere along the line.
During every hour Of every day
that we fought we were certain that
just over the horizon were coming
the reinforcements which would help
us to throw the Japs out of the
Philippines. Yet on that April
morning we knew the cause for
which we had fought and for which
we prayed for months, and for which
many of us had died, had been
lost cause from the day the first
guns were fired in the Philippines.
I can remember well the faces I
saw through the blur of defeat that
final morning on Bataan. There
was Col. Young and Col. Hardee of
Charlotte, N. c., still smiling even in
defeat, and there was my friend,
Capt. John Ely of Los Angeles,
Calf, who took the war and the
aftermath with his usual philosophic
calm. Young 1t. Howard Hanson
was trying to console his Filipino
troops, who were still striving to
comprehend the magnitude Of the
disaster which had befallen them.
Clustered in small circle was
another group of my fellow officers,
among them Capt. Allen Cory,
Charles G. Foster and Bruce ].
Martin.
There wasn't much to talk about.
I remember they were sharing the
last American cigarette any of them
had, all OF them realizing it would
be a long time before they had
another. The last American officer
Evening star., 1942-11-12

We were without orders, without
knowledge Of the situation. Finally
messengers who risked q thousand
deaths sped to Bataan headquarters
with news Of our plight. They were
back hours later with our orders
to gather up the remnants Of our
shattered and disorganized units
and retreat. Our new positions were
to be the last-stand, defensive lines
of the whole Bataan campaign,
Somehow we made it back to those
positions. I don't know how it was
done, for 1t seemed a move beyond
the physical capabilities Of my
forces. Yet we did it, with Col.
Young leading the retreat and di-
recting the attack against the scat
tered Japanese patrols which sought
to halt our progress.
The Foxholes Of Bataan.
We established makeshift lines at
the base of the Guitol Trail, cary
ing out foxholes or slit trenches
even as we STAYED off enemy ground
and air attackers. Men kept shovels
in one hand and rifles and SUBJ
machine guns in the other. Our
task was to plug the gap through
which the Japanese troops were
pouring in vast numbers.
Late that same night-April IT.
the tattered, exhausted remnants Of
other units and other divisions ar
rived to assist us, but even then I
already thought it was too late. The
job was simply too big for us. Even
If We had been at full fighting
strength, even If we had weapons
for every man, and even If our
forces hadn't been physically ruined,
I don't think we could have made it.
Enemy artillery overwhelmed us
with exploding steel constantly,
even as it had for days past, while
the Japanese airmen were merciless
IN their continued pounding. Every
thing was too disorganized. We
had no time to dig in or to make
for ourselves the semblance of a
barricade and Japanese troops were
seemingly within inches of us even
as we arrived to begin the last
stand defense.
Japanese tanks were brought into
use during those final days, too,
and those Of us in the front lines
had the satisfaction of seeing one
enemy coup fail dismally. For
weeks before we had built we'll
constructed tank traps throughout
the sector and the Japs allowed