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Besides working in the fields, Saipan's civilians are beginning to return to their old trades: fishing, handicraft, light industry. Common laborers are paid 35? daily, skilled workers 50?. Some women have started making two-for-a-nickel cigars. A curio business is being started to fashion souvenirs for the Americans...
Four weeks after the armistice with Russia, war-drained Finland was still trying to throw out the once-welcome German guest. Russia joined in at the Arctic Ocean to speed the parting. With Petsamo's nickel mines threatened by the Russian drive and a Lapland winter making up, the German determination to stick around was beginning to cool. Helsinki was still hopeful that it would be able to demobilize its soldiers by Dec. 5-the armistice deadline...
When Finland surrendered, most of the Germans in northern Finland were dug in near the nickel mines and the Norwegian frontier. Colonel General Lothar Rendulic had two divisions in the far north based on the Norwegian port of Kirkenes (35 miles northwest of Petsamo); three divisions were based farther south on the railroad town of Rovaniemi (65 miles north of the Gulf of Bothnia...
...enterprise and ingenuity. The kids lost money. Friday they combined the stuff they had left, opened up for business and said they were going to stay open until they sold it. They are selling their sandwiches, pop and coffee at the reduced rate of a nickel. . . . We ought all to give the kids a break, come uptown and help them out of the hole...
This week Germany stood all but alone. Finland was following Rumania out of the war, more decisively than had feckless Bulgaria (see FOREIGN NEWS). With her went her priceless stores of nickel, manganese and cobalt. Fat, foolish Hungary lay open to the Russians. The "holy soil" of the Reich itself had already been torn by the tracks of U.S. tanks. The haze before the beast's eyes deepened. Soon night would shut...