Tennessee (BB 43) - Naval Cruise Book

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Tall spires loomed behind The breakwaTer and a range of smoky hills Tilled The background. To The righT sTood The modern CaThay l-loTel, while The waTerTronT Teemed wiTh ancienT Tishing iunks and bumboaTs. Here was The OrienT of The TourisT books. 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 silks 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 chopsTicks over unTamiliar 4. Tood in Chinese resTauranTs: danced wiTh Tiny Malayan girls in The ciTy's amusernenTparks1 lisTened To The sTrange wail as a Mandarin girl sang a song oT love Tor her soldier husband: rode creaking rickshaws Through The TwisTed and darkened sTreeTs oT Singapore, pregnanT wiTh all The mysTery oT The EasT. They drank warm beer aT S3 a boTTleg sTared as Tami- lies cooked Their meagre meals oT rice over a charcoal blaze in The crowded sTreeTs3 Traded American cigareTTes wiTh grimy sTreeT urchins Tor Japanese occupaTion money: argued prices wiTh sTreeT vendors oT jewels 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. A T T Ti - ii A Ciiy Spread Oui' Before Americans ....

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