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Owen Stanley . . . produced the first (and probably only) theatrical performance ever seen in Northwestern Australia. This was a play acted by naval personnel for the entertainment of the ship's company of the Beagle which called at Port Essington in 1839. Aboard the Beagle was Charles Darwin who gave his name to another United Nations outpost...
...dispute the claim. The Japanese had been inching into outposts of The Netherlands East Indies ever since they seized Timor last February. They have been unmolested except for occasional bombing raids, usually by outmoded Australian Lockheed Hudsons. Last week's inch put them within 300 miles of Darwin...
...several centuries they were a famed stopping place for buccaneers and whalers, who took along the islands' giant (400 Ib.) tortoises for fresh meat, and set up a primitive post office (in a barrel) which still provides free mail delivery. In 1835 they made scientific history: Charles Darwin visited them, found that half of the islands' birds and flowers had no counterparts elsewhere, gathered data that later gave him the idea for his Origin of Species...
Dead Japs Don't Lie. General Arnold cited many a glowing fact & figure from the Pacific war to prove the worth of U.S. fighters. This week a correspondent in Australia reported that P-40 squadrons at Darwin had downed 31 Jap bombers, 41 Jap Zeros, and lost only 15 P-40s in the last few months. Apparently the U.S. fighter commander at Darwin, like-General Chennault, is an exceptionally astute leader. Last week the P-40s at Darwin did what theoretically they could not do: bagged a flock of Zeros at 25,000 feet, far above their normal altitude...
...enemy, too, stepped up his aerial activity. He struck his hardest blow at Port Darwin on Australia's northern coast. In his first big night raid he sent over 27 bombers escorted by 22 Zeroes. Allied fighters met them, knocked down nine planes, lost only one. Again, Australia's defenders sent up no shouts of victory. Pared down to a minimum of equipment, they feared the implications of the big raid. It must mean that Japanese air strength in the South Pacific was on the rise. And on the future they looked with a strange, foreboding pleasure: there...