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Flood. Two days later the flood broke. First came word that the remaining provinces of humid, swampy Equatorial Africa (498,054 sq.mi.; 4,400 whites; 1,986,060 Arabs, Okande, Fiot, Fang, Bateke, Banda, Zandeh, Hausa, Fula and Pigmy tribesmen) had renounced Vichy. This revolt was engineered by General Rene Marie Edgard de Larminat, former Chief of Staff in the Syrian Army, who had escaped to Africa after being imprisoned for attempting to lead the staff to Britain following the French surrender. General de Larminat moved into French territory from his refuge in the Belgian Congo after his agents...
Some deep-sea fish, such as the species Photoblepharon palpebratus of the Banda Islands, have headlights powered by luminous bacteria (see cut}. Photoblepharon has arranged a "symbiosis" (mutually profitable living together), providing the bacteria with food and fine living conditions in a sac near the eye. while the bacteria furnish the fish with lanterns...
...Paris arrived last week seven bodies that had lain for days in the wreckage of a French plane in the Great Congo Forest, had been mauled by leopards, lions, jackals and wolves, had been punctured by the proboscises of poisonous flies and mosquitoes, had been stripped of valuables by Banda Negroes and finally had been found by a Belgian search pilot, shipped down the Congo River to French Equatorial Africa's capital, Brazzaville, thence by rail to the seacoast, thence by sea to France. No. 1 of these seven corpses was the body of French Equatorial Africa...
Richard Strauss sat waiting to lead the Banda Municipala of Madrid in his Don Juan. The band's regular conductor, elderly short & stout Lamote de Grignon, stood in the theatre wings. Came a messenger to Herr Strauss, whispered that a street of Frankfort had just been designated Richard Straussstrasse...
...From San Francisco we shall continue to Honolulu, Guam, Yap, Manila, Ambon, Banda, Bima and at last arrive at our final destination, Surobaya, our great naval base which protects our rubber, tea and spice trade in the East Indies...