Tennessee (BB 43) - Naval Cruise Book

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Tall spires loomed behind The brealcwaTer and a range QT smolcy hills Tilled The background. To The righT sTood The wiTh ancienT Tishing iunlcs and bumboaTs. modern CaThay HoTel, while The waTerTronT Teemed Here was The OrienT oT The TourisT boolcs. ColorTul, bearded lndians sold Their wares or begged in The sTreeTs. BenT Chinese coolies cluTTered The sTreeTs wiTh Their rickshaws as American sailors Tanned ouT over The enTire ciTy. ExquisiTe sillcs sold Tor TanTasTic prices. Seamen sold Their Tive cenT combs, oTTen TooThless Tor S2 in STraiTs money. Singapore was TasTing The TirsT deep draughTs oT Tree- dom aTTer Tour long years oT Japanese dominaTion and Tound iT gOOd. Americans sTruggled wiTh chopsTiclcs over unTamiliaf f T ' V s ' iff? Tood in Chinese resTauranTs3 danced wiTh Tiny Malayan girls in The ciTy's amusemenT parlcs1 lisTened To The sTrange wail as a Mandarin girl sang a song oT love Tor her soldier husband: rode crealxing riclcshaws Through The TwisTed and darlcened sTreeTs oT Singapore, pregnanT wiTh all The mysTery oT The EasT. They dranlc warm beer aT S3 a boTTle3 sTared as Tami- lies coolced Their meagre meals oT rice over a charcoal blaze in The crowded sTreeTsg Traded American cigareTTes wiTh grimy sTreeT urchins Tor Japanese occupaTion money: argued prices wiTh sTreeT vendors OT iewels oT doubTTul value. As iT always musT, The TENNESSEEE sTay in The BriT- ish Crown Colony had To end. The morning oT OcTober 27, The TENNESSEE slipped ouT oT The harbor and inTo The narrow sTraiTs oT Malacca, bound Tor The nexT porT oT call, Colombo, on The Tabulous island oT Ceylon. f E, A Ci'l'y Spread Oui' Before Americans ....

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