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...campaign was the withdrawal of British troops from Buna, at the mouth of the Moyale salient occupied by Italian troops (TIME, July 22, et seq.). Water is more important than steel in desert warfare. The British claimed that the water supply of Buna was sufficient for only a small garrison, and that the wells were within range of strategic hills from which the enemy could shell them. But what the British troops apparently feared more than thirst was a nutcracker attack which would flank Buna...
...capital, Fort-Lamy, makes it a desirable prize. Leader of the Chad revolt was black Civil Governor Adolphe Felix Sylvestre Eboue, French-educated rugby player whose administrative ability so impressed his superiors that he landed the only French governorship held by a Negro. Having lined up a small garrison of colonial troops, Rebel Eboue proclaimed allegiance to General de Gaulle: "... The people of Chad will defend their territory for France against all comers...
...stimulating than disheartening, saw no reason to doubt that the Army already has the start for a first-class fighting force. Working till they were wobbly, sleeping on the ground in cold and rain, the First Army's sickness rate was about half the rate for regulars in garrison. Its morale was tops; after long hikes, fights through underbrush, soldiers were not too tired to shave, brush their teeth, skylark. The supply system, running in food and ammunition for an army bigger than the population of Schenectady, N. Y., had worked without a major hitch. Staff work was better...
This left Shanghai in the hands of some 1,200 U. S. Marines, a negligible French garrison and an overwhelmingly superior Japanese force. Shanghai's senior foreign officer became Rear Admiral Moriji Takeda, who could presumably ask for and take over the "defense" of the International Settlement. Since the U. S. could not and would not assume responsibility for fighting off the Japanese alone, Shanghai's International Settlement last week was as good as surrendered. Shanghailanders knew that they had lost their queer hybrid foreign city, not quite 100 years...
...memory of his boyhood idols, Director Lindheimer has named these races after jockeys who made old Washington Park famous at the turn of the century: immortal Isaac Murphy, slaveborn Negro who won four American and three Kentucky Derbies; whip-snapping Snapper Garrison, whose habit of coming from behind to win made "Garrison finish...