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When fire broke out on two more nitrate-carrying steamers last week, two tenuous theories went up in smoke. Neither Japs nor Reds could be blamed for the plague of nitrate-ship fires (TIME, April 2) after Chile's cocky counter-espionage Departamento 50 nabbed the chief saboteur, a German named Julio Alberto von Appen Oestmann (alias Apfel), and turned him over for shipment...
...probably were in too much of a hurry. Methodical, plodding Krueger was in a hurry, but not too much. He did not believe in capturing territory in haste, only to lose it at the enemy's leisure. Strategically, he was out on the end of a limb-a tenuous supply line, 950 miles long, from Leyte. That was on the orders of his superior officer, MacArthur. How the Sixth Army would be supplied and maintained there was the responsibility of other men than Krueger. But within the designated area of operations how far & how fast the Sixth Army went...
...Buda, rising some 770 feet above the Danube, commanded the approaches to Pest. The Germans had time to rim the city with strong points. The 950-foot river itself was a formidable last ditch. The Germans had men and machines. The Russians had to bring both over a tenuous supply line that looped far around the Carpathians...
...their nest. But it was so remote that written communications with Chungking would take two weeks by devious routes through enemy lines. When not engaged in banging at enemy airfields or escorting Superfortresses returning from Manchuria, the Scorpions had a routine chore: shooting up locomotives on the Japs' tenuous north China railways. In two months their score...
...motorized attack. By this week Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky had widened his front to 120 miles, captured Szeged, Hungary's second largest city, the Transylvanian capital of Cluj, and drawn near to Debrecen, where Patriot Louis Kossuth once declared Hungary's independence. But Malinovsky had a long, tenuous supply line, might be delayed until it was strengthened...