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...besieged Italians had never seen anything like it. After the first few minutes flares became an extravagance. Incendiaries and explosives touched off leaping fires that lit the whole town. Along the arc of defenses which guarded the landward side a rain of bombs gouged out pillboxes and machine guns. Tanks and armored cars were battered, gutted. Heaps of materiel were fired and blown up. All night the British kept at it, crisscrossing the sky in steady waves...
...landward sea wind lifts over...
...Masayuki Tani called on British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie. He demanded that British authorities in Burma emulate the discretion of their Indo-Chinese neighbors by stopping munitions traffic. The British Government "found it difficult to make a prompt reply." By way of pressure, Japanese troops formed a tight landward ring around Hong Kong. The British prepared to resist. Hong Kong officials, archives and non-combatants were evacuated to Singapore and Manila...
Ralph Sanger scholarships to Andrew O. Jaszi 2G, of Oberlin, Ohio; and John Landward, of Salt Lake City, Utah...
...Peninsula. The Chamberlain and Daladier Governments have been savagely criticized for letting Spain fall into.the hands of Fascist Franco, who is now in a position to train big guns on Britain's Gibraltar from the landward side. The result of this strategic boner is that the British can no longer count on Gibraltar as a firm support for naval operations along the British Mediterranean lifeline, that France is worried about submarine and airplane attacks on her Marseille-Algiers shipping from Italy's Sardinia and the Spanish Balearic Islands. But Spain is not necessarily a fatal loss to Britain...