The Raiders
p. 11 · Read in the full issue
Well Hidden While Huns Boast in Japan
AFTER the sensational disclosures, at the end of December, of enemy raider activities in the Pacific, Ger man communities in China and Japan boasted that, within a month, the ac tivities of German raiders in the Pacific would be doubled. It was declared that Germans in Japan were organising raids on a great scale.
More than a month has passed, and nothing has happened.
Actually, there has not been a word published' about the raiders since the three sinister ships discharged their prisoners on Emirau Island on December 21, and scuttled away north among the equatorial islands.
They still may get an unguarded ship or two; but Pacific Territories residents may accept the assurance that the danger from German raiders which was so marked in November and December is now much less. Nothing can be said about our defence dispositions; but it may be stated that the position now is very different to what it was.
The raiders, sooner or later, will come out of their hide-outs; and then there will be a new kind of story to tell.