Word: communique
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...London, having a ship canal of its own to bring in imports, a surrounding web of heavy industry, and important rail connections. Next followed two smashing new assaults on Southampton, leveling the big port's business section and hundreds of residences, setting oil stores afire. An Air Ministry communiqué admitted 370 persons had been killed and injured...
Last week Balkan statesmen were again getting the call from the Nazis, and Locomotive Führer went to see Nazidom's Führer. The conference took place secretly in Berlin. Afterwards only terse communiqués took note of the visit, and all the world took it for granted that Bulgaria would soon join the scramble for the Axis bandwagon. But a whole week passed by, and Bulgaria did not sign. Boris had weighed the odds and come to a pretty solution-for the time being...
...President Albert Lebrun had departed for Switzerland. The Hotel du Pare, headquarters of the Government, was packed with visitors, politicians, newsmen. Marshal Petain held court in a corner of the lounge, ate behind a screen in the hotel dining room. Dark little Vice Premier Pierre Laval dashed off communiqués, handed them out personally in the lobby. Early each morning an airplane took off from Vichy, headed northeast toward Wiesbaden, Germany, where the Armistice Commission...
...face-saving Japanese Army communiqué, the spring drive was finally said to have "wiped out ten Chinese divisions." But out of a welter of Chinese and Japanese claims it appeared fairly certain this week that the Chinese were nimbly scattering whenever the Japanese attacked in force, immediately re-forming to harass the Japanese flanks and rear. Specifically the Chinese claimed capture of 52 pieces of Japanese artillery, 54 tanks, 100 Japanese Army trucks...
...That although Allies and Germans tend to slur over their defeats, the communiqués issued by the actual military and naval commands of both sides are generally reliable and generally in the long run confirm each other. (Exception: accounts of air raids. Aviators of both sides swooping in at 300 m.p.h. through a barrage, dropping their bombs and getting out in a hurry are likely to overestimate damage done...