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...Melbourne, Honolulu and Washington, pins moved and blue lights winked on Intelligence maps when the Japs shifted battleships, carriers and cruisers from the Bay of Bengal to the East Indies, then to home waters. Part of the Japanese main fleet moved southward toward a rendezvous at Formosa. Aircraft and light naval units suddenly withdrew from Australia's outlying islands; submarines were left to do the bulk of Jap work, take the brunt of Jap losses there...
...Suarez naval base (TIME, May 18). They showed their anger by a surprise submarine attack in which they claimed last week to have damaged a British battleship and a light cruiser. The British Admiralty admitted the attack, but said there had been no casualties. Meanwhile, British forces groping southward a few miles from Diégo-Suarez found that the Vichyfrench had not yet given up. Neither had the Japanese. Probably sneaking ashore from Jap submarines, the two late officers undoubtedly had important plans...
...radio school is intended to have a potential capacity of 1000 officers in staggered six-month courses with 125 men in each section. They will be barracked in Freshman halls beginning in the sector of Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, and Thayer and expanding southward...
...establishing here one of three radio training centers. Each school will have a potential capacity of 1000 officers in staggered six-month courses with 125 men in each section. They will be barracked in Freshman dormitories beginning in the sector of Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, and Thayer and ultimately overflowing southward. President Conant's house, which he is vacating after Commencement, will be used as headquarters both for the new school and the Naval ROTC unit. The active officers will eat in the Freshman Union...
Whether this report is true or not, Trondheim was by last week the chief Allied headache on the Arctic supply route to Russia, where, lately, headaches have grown more splitting. Lengthening daylight gives Nazi aircraft more time for reconnaissance. The southward drift of polar ice pinches the convoy channel dangerously narrow. Last week Germany claimed that the Luftwaffe had sunk a U.S. cruiser of the 9,100-ton Pensacola class and a U.S. destroyer, somewhere between Norway's North Cape and Spitsbergen, had scored hits on two more U.S. destroyers. Another Nazi news-bomb announced the sinking...