The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-15

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 periences with thorough research, Miss Haven presents on amazing
 story Of thorough -going treachery, dark plotting and perfidy which reads like mystery thriller.
 the JapB forced Chinese and Man churian natives to raise boom crops
 of the poppy, to supply hundreds
 Of opium dens where potential
 enemieB-the common men of countries they coveted-could smoke
 their way to oblivion. They got away with it, too, just aS "Asher- men" got away with taking sound. ingg and photographers around the Aieutians and of the coast to Alaska. Both ventures served the
 Jap . double purpose; the opium brought in the huge revenue, plus undermining morale: thousands of tons of salmon were poached by real fishermen, while spies aboard gathered their vtal data.
 If the reader gets the impression that almost every son of Japan in Hawaii, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore. Thailnnd and Java was c commissioned spy, he may be not far of the truth. Laborers emerged after Pearl Harbor as generals, ad. mirals. False walls on mainland warehouses facing Hong Kong fell open, revealing gun supplements. In Thailand aB elsewhere, propa- ganda worked wonders. Japs etfl. phaSized the color tie with the ma. tives; they spent money like drunk en sailors and won over provincial governors. Even the Thai premier said, The Japanese are great peo. pie. great people"
 The author stayed in Hong Kong until the Jap tide made 1t clear that she would have to make it snappy f she were to see Singapore, Indo- China, Thai and Java. She reached those places by plane, and added more to her story and perhaps ex. cusable gray hairs to her head.
 Miss Haven concludes an infor- mative and exciting book with an intimate portrait of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. and the firm convic- tion that he'll keep his promise regarding the Philippines: T will returnw
 MALTA MIRACLE
 TOHN BROPHY'S new novel, J Target Island" (Harper: $2). is dedicated to an early phase of the war-the air siege of Malta but his story is so ompellingly told that the reader forgets the two-year time lapse. Brophy man. ages to make current events of h.s- tory.
 Tn i042 Malta was known as the most-bombed spot in the world. Night and day for over a year Ger man planes. opposed by an in- finitesimal number of Spitfires and earlier models, plastered the for- tress island on 8 24-hour basis. This is the story of a trio of the fighter pilots who fought against | those overwhelming odds, and 1t is | the story of the priest, Father | Julian, who moved the altar from | his demolished church to an impro- vised chapel. There are Carmel, the | boy goatherd, who cheered the | "Spits" on to victory, his sister Manuela, who disturbed Father Julian by working in a Valetta cafe and conducting a rather one-sided affair with Mack. the British pilot, who was prouder of his exploits with | women than he was of his D. F. c.
 MT. Brophy knows his scene; his storp is fast-moving and exciting | without being melodramatic. This | little book makes absorbing read | ing.
 FORT HISTORY OF CHINA TYING in the Japanese attack | A on Pearl Harbor as the inev- itable result of our new unwaver- ing open door policy of trade in China. foreign correspondent Hallet Abend weaves an interesting web