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...small-caliber guns put up ack-ack fire. Some of the younger U.S. pilots were puzzled. But old hands and the high command knew that only direct hits by aerial bombs could wipe out the burrowed Japs. A naval officer estimated that 85% to 90% of the enemy garrison were still alive. Unless the Jap evacuated, marines or infantry would still have to fight for Wake...
...protect himself from another Moslem attack from Kansu, Sheng Shih-tsai invited the Russians to set up a Red Army garrison at Kami. A full regiment of Russian troops was stationed there-dressed not in Soviet uniform, but in the Chinese uniform. Russia was permitted to establish a trade agency called Sovintorg which monopolized all Sinkiang export trade. The newly built Turksib Railway exercised enormous economic force. Russians helped to lay out roads, planned irrigation projects, trained a provincial army, staffed provincial hospitals...
...Days of Hope. The two TIME & LIFE men arrived at the height of the change. Outgoing roads were dotted with cars hauling out Russian equipment from dismantled plants. The Russians were withdrawing their drilling and refining equipment from the Sinkiang oilfields. The Russian garrison at Hami was departing by truck, in small units. The Russians were removing their autos, spare tires, generators, household goods and furniture. Their Sovintorg had closed all its minor agencies and turned the buildings over to the Chinese Government...
Last week Enrico Caruso's only daughter was married in Rockville, Md. to Ensign Michael Hunt Murray, U.S.N.R., of Garrison. N.Y. Enrico Caruso's dark-haired, 23-year-old Gloria (by his 1918 marriage to Dorothy Benjamin Caruso, then and now of Manhattan) shares at least one thing in common with the rest of her generation. She is too young to remember her father's voice-the voice which millions have never forgotten. She was less than a year old on that operatic night in Brooklyn when blood suddenly spurted in Enrico Caruso's throat...
...Army informed Japan that the ghosts of the men killed on Attu had helped the Kiska garrison in its flight, and were now guarding Japan's own shores. And just as gravely, many an official reported with awe the Emperor's interest in food, coal or steel problems-"an honor beyond expression...