Black Dragon?

It was almost dawn. All night long a policeman had been walking his beat through a dreary Lima district. Suddenly, as day broke, he saw a blood-chilling sight. On the bank of an irrigation ditch were seven bodies. Two were men, two women, three small children. All had their heads bashed in. All were Japanese.

They were two entire families, the Shimizus and the Tomayasus, who had lived in small houses alongside a coal-yard near the ditch. Suspects were a brother of one of the murdered men, a former servant of both the families.

Looking for clews, the police found a large wooden chest. Then a screen of wartime secrecy dropped down around the investigation, with the local U.S. G-men showing interest. In the chest were German and Japanese propaganda, elaborate maps, photos of important U.S. bridges, and a photo of one of the victims in the company of a "Japanese imperial personage." There was also a Japanese flag with insignia which suggested that the notorious Black Dragon Society might reach as far as Peru.

Before Pearl Harbor, the Japanese colony in Peru numbered some 20,000. In 1942, Peru cracked down. Jap businesses were closed or transferred to Peruvians. Many Japs were deported to the U.S. It might be harder to deport the Black Dragon.

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