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Further information may be had at the following Naval Reserve Recruiting Offices, 13th Floor, 150 Causeway St., Boston; Naval Reserve Armory, Old Pest Office Building, Portland Maine, where a few minutes heart-to-heart talk with an understanding officer will help you and where your particular talents can be used to your advantage and Uncle...
...tank detachment scuttered into the town. A train rumbled across the repaired causeway. A fleet steamed up the harbor to the naval base. Singapore was Japanese...
...with outnumbered manpower, was Singapore's chief hope of salvation. After nightfall enemy fire knocked out the searchlights that had fingered the shoreline, alert for infiltration. From then until late moonrise the enemy landed secretly and crept silently through shoreline marshes, headed for the Singapore end of the Causeway. They came in increasing numbers, careless of casualties. Machine gun bullets struck sparks on steel landing craft the Japs were using to cross from Johore. The defending troops fell back and fell back again...
...motley column on the Causeway dwindled off. Finally, with a touch of ceremony such as only the British could devise in such circumstances, the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who had been the first Britons to meet the Japanese up Thailand way, marched across, the last to leave Malaya. They marched to the defiant skirl of an Argyll bagpipe...
...soon as the last Scot was across, mines which sappers had placed under the Causeway were touched off. Great chunks of the narrow strip jumped into the night sky. Its 510-foot dock and its rolling lift bridge were blown...