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Last week the British made the first move back into Burma. Announced General Sir Archibald Wavell's headquarters: "During the past few days some of our troops have advanced southward from the Arakan border into western Burma. . . . The enemy . . . withdrew without offering opposition...
...calm with a report similar in tone to their accurate (and equally unflurried) forecast of the Rzhev offensive. They said that at Voronezh, where the Russians last summer kept a foothold on the Don 300 miles northwest of Stalingrad, the Red Army was assembling forces for a third offensive southward toward Rostov...
There are a few varieties of bat which do not hibernate, including the Red Bat, the Hoary, and the Silver-haired. Some live in the forests of Washington or Canada, eating insects during the summer, but when winter comes they migrate southward...
Andorra's sovereignty supposedly dates back to 777, when Charlemagne drove southward against the Saracens, then padded the Christian world with little buffer states. For centuries some 5,000 Andorran mountaineers dwelt in peace, snowbound more than half the year, in their high valley-about two-thirds the size of New York City...
...German bombers, badly needed though they were in North Africa, swung 500 miles southward to a nominally unimportant Fighting French post. Apparently the Germans had been impressed by reports that Allied forces, including U.S. troops, were assembling in the interior...