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...planes. Just twelve Peruvian parachutists took Machala and seven took Puerto Bolivar. They kept banging away at the town as they floated down, but stopped when there was no Ecuadorian counter fire. Peruvian troops moved easily across the flat land between the coast and Piedras. In a miniature Blitz they burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses even of radio sets and bric-a-brac. Several thousand Ecuadorian refugees fled northward to Guayaquil and other cities by foot, mule, boat, boxcar-many went through muddy, snake-infested jungle strips along the coast...
Japan had asked for huge concessions hoping for protracted negotiations, during which Ally Hitler would blitz Britain and the Netherlands Government in London out of existence. If the Japanese had been reasonable they might have won a great deal, for the Indies were in no position to fight. But while the Japanese played for time, Minister van Mook was the one who got it - and used it. When the negotiations ended in a complete Japanese defeat last June, thanks to Hubertus van Mook the Dutch had had time to get ready. Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu felt that Japan's fail...
Official Army point of view is that it needs every man possible to guard against the invasion of Britain which Winston Churchill warned might come by Sept. 1. Until the invasion the men are largely idle, and the Army resists all efforts to put them to work, even on Blitz clearance or other emergency work...
That night only 20,000 people slept in London's underground, where 100,000 often huddled in mid-Blitz. Most of the 20,000 were "regulars" who go every night in order to keep their places and because they got to like company...
...Methods. Last week the British let newsmen see how the R.A.F. is steeling itself against Blitz resumption. For the first time reporters were taken up in R.A.F. night bomber-fighters (American-built Douglas Havocs...