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...turn them in, even in the Athens area, but there are indications that the ELAS has not encouraged the disarming requested by the Government. The Communist Party is opposed to calling up classes for the national army and continues to encourage its own force to increase its strength and augment stores of arms in clandestine arsenals...
...George Latta McNaughton, who less than a year ago was relieved as commander of Canadian Army troops overseas by Minister Ralston himself. What the new Minister intended to do about reinforcing the Army he did not say. Some thought that he might declare Canada out of the Italian campaign, augment western forces with the troops from Italy. But it was sure that he would not use the zombies. In his first public statement after taking office he said: "I am firmly convinced that the best hope lies in the maintenance of our long traditions of voluntary service...
Anchorites and Dynamite. Then, to augment the Jewish terrorists, there arrived a surprising ally-the Nazis. Three Luftwaffe officers parachuted by night, probably from Crete, into the stony wilderness west of the Jordan Valley. Their twofold mission: to hamper the British war effort, to discredit the Jewish cause. They were discovered a fortnight ago when Arab urchins reported that a low-flying plane had dropped a bag of British money. In a cave once frequented by medieval anchorites police arrested three husky Germans, confiscated their radio sets, machine guns, explosives, and 14 German-made maps of Palestine...
...first group soon got a real test. Formed up as the 100th Infantry Battalion, they were sent to North Africa, attached to the 34th Division. To keep them a racial unit the War Department sent along 500 reserve Nisei to augment the 100th's normal battalion strength of 800. The reserves were soon needed...
Official House football begins this afternoon at Soldiers Field with two games slated for 4 o'clock on the House gridirons. Two new House teams will probably take to the field by the end of next week to augment the present league composed of Lowell, Dunster, Eliot, Kirkland, and Adams, according to Intramural Athletics Director Adolph W. Samborski...