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Wounded- In Pearl Harbor AttackFargo Sailor Home On FurloughBattle-scarred, thin and pale, a 20-year-old Fargo seaman who was wounded in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7 and spent 40 days in naval hospitals, is home on furlough.Reo Knudson, first class seaman, gave his mother, Mrs. Benjamin C. Knudson, Fargo, a big surprise Monday by pulling in unannounced after being released from a California naval hospital January 16 with a 14-day furlough.He weighs 44 pounds less than when he enlisted and his body, arms and iegs are still marked by the serious bums he received from the flames of an exploding Japanese aerial bomb. But just the same, he’s in good shape and eager to report for duty again.The Fargo sailor told how a Moorhead shipmate, Lynn Tompt, signalman third class, son of John Tompt, 429 Ninth street 60uth, stayed by his side while he lay only partially conscious in the ship's sick bay with the attack raging outside.He told how Tompt frequently brought him cigarets and water and reassured him, ‘1 am going to staywith you to the end.” Tompt was almost black with gun smoke, but was uninjured.“He thought I didn't have long to live, and I guess I thought so too, but at the time I didn’t care much,” Knutson said.The Fargo seamen said that reports many sailors were on shore leave at the time of the attack were false, saying that “very few sailorscare much about shore leave in Honolulu.”Nevertheless, he was preparing to go ashore and was combing his hair when the attack began, Knudson said. He and his shipmates thought it was merely a routine drill when they heard the alarm, about 7:55 a. m. “I took my post as a gun pointer and we went into action,” he said. “I believe that our ship knocked down several Japanese planes ”Ten minutes after the attack, he was out of action, Knudson said. He thought the reason he was not killed outright was that a partition blocked the shrapnel. The blast hurled him 10 or 15 feet, landing him on a lower deck.Million Chinese Forced To Leave Hong KongChungking, Jan. 21 (UP)—Japanese occupation forces have forced more than 1,000,000 Chinese civilians to leave Hong Kong, a government spokesman said Tuesday. He added that the government had appropriated 10,000,000 Chinese dollars for their relief.General Hsu Shih-Ying, chairman of the national relief commission, already had proceeded to Kwangtung province, on the mainland opposite Hong Kong, to administer the fund and establish relief stations.Three-one-three-mree-one is the Want Ad phone number.
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Moorhead Daily News
Moorhead, Minnesota, US
Wed, Jan 21, 1942
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