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Word reached the U.S. last week that the British, conscious of Freetown's new strategic importance, were taking steps to strngthen it. The 22,424-ton Monarch of Bermuda, late of the pleasure trade deposited "between 3,000 and 5,000 troops" there, adding to the port's reputed garrison of 30,000. Freetown would never become a Singapore, but it was repidly becoming Africa's Hong Kong-a base dedicated to defensive harassment and delay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Africa's Hong Kong | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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