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Within eight hours they guessed again and came back. This time they attacked on a vaster scale. They landed parachutists at such widely separated points as Eupatoria and Feodosiya (see map), bombed the opposite extremes of Perekop and Yalta, sent landing parties ashore along the Crimea's Black Sea coast and across the shallow, stagnant enclosed sea called the Putrid...
Down from the north came Japanese columns, paralleling the strategic Hankow-Canton railway on both sides (see map). They meant business. Five regular divisions, two hundred planes were in this shove. Last time the Japanese pushed on Changsha the Chinese destroyed the roads, encircled the attackers, forced them into disastrous retreat. This time the Japanese brought with them six full regiments of engineers. Communications with the rear were to be kept open at all costs...
...days the British have be leaguered an almost forgotten inkspot on the map of Africa: French Somaliland...
More potent perhaps than the Raja's intentions in effecting the change was the will of the British Empire. Oil-rich, rubber-bearing, strategically-placed Sarawak as an air base can menace Thailand, the Philippines, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies. It is far too important on the map of the South Seas today for comic opera...
Dodge develops 105 h.p. (last year 91) but is said to use less gasoline. A squarish, glittering grille extends from headlight to headlight. Running counter to the G.M. trend, Chrysler has made the Dodge fenders short and compact; they resemble the "pants" on aircraft wheels. Tourists' gadget: a map light set in the middle of the instrument panels...