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...Yugoslavs, in divided units operating as colossal guerrilla parties, using the French tactics of artillery preparation and assault which Dusan Simovitch learned at St. Cyr, the elite French war college, began to counterattack in exactly the opposite direction from their pre-battle expectation. Their major effort was southward, into the Serbian hills. They counterattacked near Kragujevac, General Simovitch's birthplace - traditional home of the Obrenovitch dynasty. Their strongest push was into a rugged defile known as Kachanik Pass. There they claimed to have destroyed 90 German tanks, to have taken great toll of man power, to have checked...
Jugoslav quarters said that, insofar as could be learned, the fleet has suffered no serious losses in the five days of German blitzkrieg and was able to move southward to join the British behind the screen of the Dalmatia Islands...
...last week the many British drives in East Africa had resolved themselves into one campaign-an encirclement of Addis Ababa. When he took Ethiopia, Benito Mussolini's strategy was to send his main attack (Marshals De Bono and Badoglio) southward from Eritrea, and to meet it with a smaller containing attack (General Graziani) northward from Italian Somaliland. This time the British strategy was to bottle as many troops as possible in Eritrea and then converge on Addis Ababa from the northwest and south. The main British attack came from the south...
...cloudy between Feb. 16 and March 8. "It was worse last year," the permanent residents said (as it was). And it was a fact that the sun did not make so much difference in Florida as it was generally supposed to make. Since Henry Flagler pushed his bumpy railroad southward to Miami, and the tourists began to seek winter warmth, to millions in the U. S. Florida had become a place to rest, to play, to escape from the year-round realities at home. Up to this week, some 2,000,000 had spent $250,000,000 on that endeavor...
...Berlin by way of Moscow, preceded by Germany's Ambassador to Japan, General Eugen Ott. On this trip Japan's part, if any, in the offensive will be settled. And so, perhaps, will the long-awaited Japanese-Russian non-aggression pact, which to Japan would mean Southward...