Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This issue of TIME should reach our readers in Hawaii at the same time it reaches our subscribers on the mainland...
...TIME'S news is there unchanged - but the mainland-edition advertising had to be left out and the weight of the paper had to be held down to the minimum - partly to save space on the ships that carried the paper to Hawaii, partly to make the printed cop ies as light as possible so they can be rushed on to all our other island out posts in the South Pacific...
Cretans are a patient lot. Since 1941 they have bided their time. They have suffered hardships, intenser than the hardships suffered on the Greek mainland because Crete never was self-sufficient. The Gemans have been constantly robbing the people of their porridge, bread and olives. After taking their "official tithe," they come roving around in small bands, forcing villagers and townsmen to give up more at pistol point. The stuff they steal or wangle from the Cretans is not enough, so that on occasion you get German soldiers, and even officers, entering homes and begging for scraps of food...
...many thousands in the hills now. Not all of them are armed, because arms are hard to come by. There are some women among them-the famed Amazons who fought so valiantly during the Crete battle. They are not fighting-yet. The guerrillas maintain steady communication with the Greek mainland and with the Mideast by couriers who slip...
Waiting last week on the African mainland to put the sick and wounded from Sicily to bed was the Charlotte, N.C., Evacuation Hospital, an all-tent, mobile affair, with over 1,000 cots and a big staff of doctors, nurses and enlisted men. Correspondent Ernie Pyle has told how this evac took in patients twelve hours after the U.S. landing near Algiers last November...