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Austria-Hungary's handsome, exiled Empress Zita turned up in Washington the day after the Moscow Declarations were announced. There her eldest son, Otto Habsburg, pretender to the 25-years-gone Austro-Hungarian thrones and sponsor last year of the abortive Austrian Battalion (29 voluntary recruits), announced importantly that he was ready for anything, might be back in Vienna within a matter of months. Said one Austrian exile: "In America, Otto may still be a question; in Europe, he certainly...
Bogart reaches a lonely water-hole and tries to trick a thirsty (water-thirsty this time) German battalion into surrender, although the well has run dry. The trick doesn't quite work, and our team has to fight it out. Most of them get killed, but Hairbreadth Humphrey and another Yank capture what is left of 500 Germans. It all sounds like a Hollywood fairy tale, but is staged convincingly...
...Half dead with thirst, this military mixed grill at last reaches an abandoned well, finds a choked dribble of water. There, as they die off one by one, the Allied men manage through a series of improbable strata-ferns and heroisms to hold off and capture an entire German battalion...
With the coming of the first contingent of British aviation trainees to that station, Lt. Pike was connected with their training as a battalion administrative officer...
...swan-song--made all the sadder by the knowledge that sadder by the knowledge that our junior counterpart has retired from the field for reasons best known to himself. This means that the Supply corps School will no longer have a voice in the SERVICE NEWS. The Junior battalion should take it upon itself to find someone to do the job. Even if the various class morale officers just passed in weekly notes it would be better than nothing...