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...Fiji native is as black as his New Guinea cousin and wears the same unsanitary mop of fuzzy black hair, but usually shorter. He was the last of the Melanesians in that race's eastward sweep across the Pacific. But the Fiji native is in danger of losing his majority on his islands. When the idle Fiji would not cultivate the sugar fields assiduously, the British went to India for recruits. That was about 65 years ago. So prodigiously do Indians breed that there are now 94,000 Indians to 102,000 Fijis, 2,000 Chinese, 5,000 Europeans...
...bombed three key points along Madagascar's irregular western shore. Under cover of Navy guns, landing parties were soon ashore driving toward Morondava, Majunga and Ambanja, which fell with little opposition. A few days later British forces were well on the road to Tananarive, this time to mop up Madagascar for good...
...problem of war finance in a nut shell is to mop up the excess income over and above the income used to buy consumers' goods. For example, in 1941 there was a gross product of 110 billion dollars, out of which 75 billion dollars were spent for consumers goods. The resulting 45 billion dollar excess was taken care of through taxes and savings. For the fiscal year of 1942 the excess has been estimated to be 80 billion dollars...
...British arrested hundreds of Hurs, promptly executed 27 ringleaders. But they had done more than a mop-up job on rampaging natives. From his sand-island G.H.Q. dominating the jungle, Major General Roland Richardson authorized this statement: "The whole operation may be regarded as valuable practice for jungle warfare elsewhere, in which the British forces so far have been at a marked disadvantage...
...Mop-Up. In Indianapolis, a holdup man robbed a drugstore of $68, overlooked another $10, which burglars removed later the same night...