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Show JAPANESE SOLDIER'S POCKETS A Japanese warrior is said to be loaded down with keepsakes keep-sakes symbolizing- his deep superstition and also with money and pictures ,of pretty girls such as any soldier might carry. This is indicated in a shipment of war trophies shipped back from Guadalcanal several months ago by Staff Sergeant Ser-geant Charles Morris, United States Marines, to his wife in Washington. In addition to helmets, most popular trophies of the war in the Pacific, American soldiers, the Moms shipment showed, show-ed, are collecting- Japanese money belts, covered with red French knots, representing the rising sun. In addition to money, the belts sent home by Serg-eant Morris contained little bits of paper bearing- the words, "Glorious military protection and honor." The charms, supposedly sup-posedly sold to the soldiers by Shinto priests, last only for an appointed length of time and must then be renewed. Sergeant Morris' Japanese 'was studying- English from a lesson sheet that included extracts from! Benjamin Franklin's Frank-lin's "Poor Rithard's Almanack" and a description of New York as follows: "The biggest of these towns is New York. Some of the houses there are as many as 100 storeys high. Unless you went up in a lift, your legs would ache badly before be-fore you came to the top." |