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...columns along a 250-mile strip of South China coast between Hong Kong and the Indo-China border. It was intended: 1) to menace one of free China's best supply lines; 2) to help isolate British Hong Kong; 3) to strengthen the position of the large Japanese garrison on Hainan Island just off the coast; 4) to make a nasty threatening face at Indo-China just across the Gulf of Tonkin...
...pushing up from Chad, headed north to the outpost and airport of Murzuch. They dressed in the flowing coverings of the desert, and scattered Italian patrols they passed on the way took them for relief troops, unsuspectingly waved them the Fascist salute. When they reached the fort the Italian garrison was even less wary. Coming smartly to attention at the command of a British officer, they were all set to parade in review when ordered to surrender...
...another raiding party, continuing on from Murzuch, had moved northward along the Algerian frontier, captured the fort of Gadames. If this were true, it would put them astride a well-built north-south motor road, 300 miles southwest of Tripoli, just across the border from General Weygand's garrison at Fort Saint in the Tunisia-Algeria-Libya corner...
Last week Heinrich Himmler, the man who had cleaned up Vienna, Warsaw and Paris for Hitler, arrived in Oslo and informed Norway it could hope for no freedom even after a German victory. The Reich was going to use Norway to supply and hydroelectrify greater Germany. The present Nazi garrison (estimated at 300,000) would stay until "reliable" Quisling forces could take its place...
...land the confident Italians began what appeared to be a giant pinch on the Canal. They drove a small British garrison out of British Somaliland, and undertook an invasion of Egypt which stalled at Sidi Barrani. Then came a turning point in the Eastern basin. Benito Mussolini called for an invasion of Greece...