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...Japanese garrison in Central China watched the rice too. Japan was rice-hungry. As the harvest began last month, 14,000 Japanese soldiers struck from their north Hunan bases down into the rice country. Last week while the decision seesawed in the balance, the Chinese soldiers fought desperately for their desperately needed rice. Two years ago they had driven the Japanese out of this sector. This time they meant to hold. But Hunan's battle was only a minor incident in the great struggle of Asia for rice...
Death also came to a Nazi colonel, stabbed in the Paris subway. Hereafter, by order of enraged Lieut. General Ernst von Schaumburg, commander of the German Paris garrison, similar violence will be paid for by the lives of Frenchmen arrested by or for the occupying authorities "in a number corresponding to the gravity of the act." Already the Nazis have 150,000 French locked up to choose from. And within 24 hours General von Schaumburg had been challenged to make his choice...
Inspecting the growing garrison in the Azores (TIME, July 21), General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, Portugal's President, repeated that peaceful Portugal would, if necessary, fight for her Atlantic islands...
...arrival of the force made it possible for the British to evacuate their garrison of occupation, which had been in Iceland since a month after the Nazi invasion of Iceland's sister kingdom, Denmark. The British-Canadian garrison had been estimated at about 80,000 men, who would be useful elsewhere...
...became necessary to set up a frank puppetry under a Hetman named Paul Skoropadsky. Marshal von Eichhorn was assassinated by a Ukrainian terrorist. The peasant workers of the Ukraine became infected with Soviet ideology; riots broke out. Disorderly crowds of the Austrian troops who were supposed to garrison the area started west for home in trains and on foot, selling their arms to the local populace. The German soldiers caught Bolshevism, and it spread like an epidemic...