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Hopeful Forfeit. The Japanese conquest of the Andamans made a great difference to the Japanese, to Britain and to India. The British at New Delhi had to admit that it was conquest by default. The small garrison, the few colonials, civil servants and guards at the Indian penal center in Port Blair had abandoned the Andamans to the Japs. Ready for plucking were the 204 big & little Andamans and the adjoining Nicobar Islands, which curve between Burma's central coast and the northern tip of Sumatra, locking a gateway to the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean...
...plain, washed-khaki jacket. The jacket was open at the neck. It was bare of stars (he could have worn four). It matched his plain, khaki trousers. The only gold was on his garrison cap. But the trousers were rigorously pressed. A bamboo swagger stick swung in his right hand. The jacket, trousers, cap and stick, for that place and that day, were the perfect dress. They were in the MacArthur tradition. Among the dressier uniforms of the generals around him, they made him as conspicuous as had the Russian boots, the resplendent tunics, the stars and the medals which...
Inspired by a poem of Katherine Garrison Chapin, the wife of Attorney General Biddle, the ballad has been orchestrated by William Grant Still, who is considered to be the foremost Negro composer in the country. Still, the author of the Perisphere Music for the New York World's Fair, has dedicated this piece to President Roosevelt...
...survivors of the garrison, including Indian, Chinese and Portuguese, have been herded into a camp consisting of wrecked huts without doors, windows, light or sanitation. By the end of January 150 cases of dysentery had occurred, but no drugs or medical facilities were supplied. The dead had to be buried in a corner of the camp...
...present time, free Poles the world over are active in the fight against Hitlerism," Professor Lednicki stated. "The garrison of Tobruch is Polish, as is R. A. F. squadron 303, the group of aces that has shot down the greatest number of Axis planes in the entire Allied air forces...