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...India the heat was creeping north from Cape Comorin, the heat which would grow to a relentless blaze scorching the country until the June monsoon. Much-traveled General Sir Archibald Wavell, back in New Delhi to resume his Indian command (see p. 19), waited in the heat for London to make up its mind. A U.S. air mission had arrived, the first tangible sign that U.S. fighters might join in India's defense. They too waited for London's words. And in New Delhi the Viceroy, who rules India for Britain, also waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: How Much Longer? | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...Side, West Side. Malaya (see map p. 20) is divided by a great watershed. To the east is an inhospitable land. Its beaches are broad, but they lie behind treacherous offshore ledges, riparian sandbars and extended shallows, which soon will be pounded by the terrible surf of the northeasterly monsoon. Behind the beaches, beyond a fringe of graceful, feathery casuarina trees, lie the swamps-great stinking pestholes which house most of nature's nightmares: crocodiles, pythons, cobras, and the nasty little Anopheles, the mosquito of malaria. Behind the swamps lie jungles which are almost airtight, home of adders, tigers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Way to Singapore | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...real effort was a third of the way up the Malay Peninsula. There the wary British spotted five Japanese transports landing troops across monsoon-chopped waters in the moonlit night. The British rushed to meet them and repulsed the first assault. But the first assault was just a diversion. Ten miles to the south ten more Japanese transports were disgorging their eager little beach-climbers. Here the Japanese gained a foothold, then filtered through jungles and swamps toward Kota Bhary, site of an airdrome and junction of railways running south to Singapore and north to Thailand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: Fort by Fort, Port by Port | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Though the Japanese would be superior in men, material and ships, they would be matched in air power and underwater strength. Yet time urged them on. By October monsoon winds would blow into action, lashing the east coast of Malaya and the Indies with turbulent waters. Landing under such difficulties would double the risk. The monsoon for the admirals was a time limit almost as compelling as the Siberian winter for the generals. In another six months, by April., when the monsoons are over, the Netherlands Indies might be almost impregnable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAR EAST: Porcupine Nest | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...Somaliland looks and feels like a cross between the Montana badlands and Death Valley. Except in the mountains near the coast, which rise as high as 6,500 ft. in a wall behind Berbera, it rains only 2½ inches per year. In July and August a hot, dry monsoon blows from the blazing Ethiopian hinterland. Nothing grows in British Somaliland except thorn trees, dense dry "bush" and tough desert fodder to keep alive the nomadic natives' herds of sheep, goats, camels, ostriches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: War Without Water | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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