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Yokohama, Japan's greatest seaport, rusted under blockade, with whole streets deserted, warehouses and offices closed. Gasoline was no longer available to civilians; travelers' luggage was hauled from Yokohama to Tokyo by bicycle and oxcart...
...cartridges during the retreat. The retreat was no rout. It was a desperate withdrawal across Albania, in which a few thousand men held Babuna Pass for several days against 35,000 Bulgarian attackers, in which King Peter I, old and sick, escaped through snow and mountains in an oxcart, and from which 125,000 out of 385,000 managed to get to Corfu, where they threw off the typhus, pulled themselves together, and promptly went off to Salonika to fight some more...
Despite the fact that these lines fly mostly at night, usually in filthy weather, over terrain which alternates fantastic Chinese-print mountains with treacherous rice-paddy terraces, they have had no serious accidents which were not brought on by Japanese guns. Because traditional modes of transportation in free China-oxcart, ass, camel, over miserable roads-are unbearably slow, and because trucks so often break down in Chinese hands, these lines are so heavily booked that some passengers have to wait a month for a seat. The planes are always filled to maximum capacity. Eurasia flies Junkers...
Czech territory. Meanwhile, Premier Volosin, failing to get protection from Führer Hitler or assistance from Rumania's King Carol, fled into Rumania in a peasant's oxcart...
...liberal being one with both eyes open to see that an auto moves faster than an oxcart, that trees grow better in sunlight, that all men are not created free and equal...