OCR Text |
Show Japanese Said to Build Bamboo Isles for Planes CHUNGKING, CHINA.-A military mili-tary spokesman said recently that the Japanese were using huge "floating islands" made of bamboo l airplane bases in the Pacific ocean. He said that Chinese Intelligence agents discovered large-scale employment em-ployment by the Japanese of such Islands ss bases, refueling and rest stations for the Japanese air force. The islands, he said, are modern, streamlined rafts big enough to serve as airfields. He said Chinese headquarters had obtained photographs photo-graphs of them and that "thus far the Allies seem not to have discovered discov-ered the new Japanese invention." |