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...series of slides Anderson showed an Inca community which had been overwhelmed and destroyed by the Spanish conquistador, Pizzaro, and in particular the fort called Sachesajuaman which resisted his onslaught bravely. When finally subjected by the cruel Pizzaro, the Inca captain of this fort's garrison leaped to his death from its 40 feet walls...
...British newsmen in Shanghai. Correspondent Eskelund and his pretty Chinese wife Paula slipped out of Shanghai the day (Dec. 21) that Jap police started rounding up U.S. and British "foreigners." A Chinese guide led them, by night, through narrow mountain passes to a farmhouse within earshot of a Jap garrison. Once, during their two-day hideout, they escaped a Jap searching party by a hair. A Chinese contraband runner loaded them at midnight into his small sampan, nosed upstream through sleet and snow for Free China. Japanese troops lined the right bank, Chinese the left; detection meant being riddled...
BATAVIA, N.E.I.--Everything useful to the Japanese, including shipping, was destroyed at Kuching, capital of Sarawak, Borneo, before the small garrison fell back to Dutch Borneo, a Sarawak Government European officer who was among the last to leave said on his arrival here today...
...Commandos waded ashore, up the snow-covered ledges, began a house-to-house struggle with the 200 soldiers of the German garrison. In the harbor five German vessels ran on the beach and were destroyed. Farther south the R.A.F. discovered a German convoy, sank at least one ship. The British planes also bombed the German airdrome at Herdla, 100 miles to the south...
Farther west, at Guam, the part-Marine, part-Navy garrison had been subdued by the Japanese. Guam, long denied the sinews of defense by a strangely bemused Congress, could have met no other fate. It was almost under the guns of the Japanese fortified island of Rota 70 miles to the north. But east of Wake, on Midway, Marines also stood fast. Quartered on an island group that is a Pacific paradise beside Wake, they sent out no news beyond the fact that they were still hanging...