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...Near the seacoast, they evacuated Wenchow. Before the Japs wrested the city from the Chinese more than a month ago, it was one of the only two sizable seaports left to China and, according to Domei, "an important secret Chinese supply base." Over its 10th-Century wall flowed smuggled Japanese goods for Free China, Chinese raw materials for Japan. More vexing to Japan's military leaders, it was only 180 miles from the northern tip of the island of Formosa, a vital troop center and training ground, and 650 miles (feasible bombing distance) from Japan. These were the reasons...
...York, were rushed to the fever-ridden little country on the Red Sea. To escape the heat of the lowlands, where the temperature sometimes reaches 120°, they were housed 4,000 feet above sea level on the inland plateau and transported every day to the sweltering seacoast...
...minors, backbone of U.S. baseball, have been hardest hit. Of their 41 leagues, twelve have folded this year: ten were frightened out of starting the season, two gave up when seacoast dimout regulations prevented night games. Approximately 25% of their players have been lost to the armed forces and higher-paid defense jobs. Another wartime blow to the night-playing, bus-traveling minor league clubs was the recent ODT ban on chartered busses. But as long as they can get around in borrowed station wagons, baseball's bush leaguers have no intention of quitting...
...seaplane carried him to Crete. Nazi soldiers, dropping out of the sky, drove him on again. He and his party fled once more; guided over the mountains by Capitan ("The Goat") Volanis, a fierce little Cretan guerrila. At the seacoast, he embarked on a British destroyer. From Cairo via Capetown he reached London, set up his Government-in-Exile...
Although the Eastern Seacoast under-went a war-time dim-out last night which will probably be in effect for the duration, the University will only be mildly affected by the anti-glare campaign, chief air warden, Aldrich Durant announced yesterday...