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...with a tactical air force modeled after the combined British-U.S. air force which smashed the German armies in Tunisia. Its commander: Air Vice Marshal John Henry D'Albiac, 49-year-old R.A.F. veteran who in 1940 commanded British squadrons in Greece, later led R.A.F. forces in Ceylon. In an invasion of the Continent, Air Vice Marshal D'Albiac's new force would prepare the way for the attack, as the Allies did in the last stage of the Tunisian battle, with blasting assaults on Axis ground defenses in the path of landing Allied troops...
Carnivorous plants spread from South Carolina to Ceylon. There are about 450 species. Their methods of capturing their prey (ostensibly nothing larger than insects) are in some measure common to all. But Professor Lloyd breaks down their "trapping mechanisms" into six categories -pitfalls, lobster pots, snares, flypaper or birdlime traps, steel traps and mousetraps. The plants lure their victims by odors, the secretion of nectar and mucilage, the display of bright colors. With few exceptions, the plants have means of digesting their prey.* Enzymes and acids are excreted, and when these are accumulated together with the prey, something like...
Teddy White's expense account from Ceylon to Chungking passed across my desk for an okay this week. It gave me such a sharp new insight into what a correspondent's life in far-away places is really like these days that I thought you might also be interested in some of the entries. (A rupee is about 30 cents...
...ends and the steaming, water-clogged delta lands of the Brahmaputra valley begin to dry. But a quick successful thrust at Calcutta could cripple 70% of India's war effort. From the Andaman Islands the Jap could crack by sea and air at the Trincomalee naval base in Ceylon, at Madras and at Calcutta...
...attacks might be hit & run. Last spring's Battle of Ceylon may have made the Jap cautious. A land invasion presents greater difficulties for greater gain and would cut off the last practical land supply route to China...