World: Boating on the China Sea

To get around the Eire censors' rule against publication of news of Irishmen serving with the Allies, Dublin's Irish Times solemnly wrote of a former staff member who survived the sinking of the Prince of Wales: "Friends of John A. Robinson, who was involved in a recent boating accident, will be glad to learn that he is alive and well."

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