Smutting the sky with great streaks of black smoke, a pack of Japanese destroyers swooped down in attack formation last week upon Taku, the bustling port entrance for Tientsin and Peiping. So far as jittery, defenseless Chinese could see, Japan had simply decided to seize Taku, striking as usual without a declaration of war.
Abruptly, while all Taku watched with Adam's apples bobbing, the Japanese war boats split into two fleets, began an extremely realistic war game in China's front yard. Fleet No. 1 "defended" the Chinese...
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