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...toilet belched black sewage. But that day the Corbetts, millions like them in 20 cities over England, carried on. Repair crews filled the craters in the streets, restored skeleton public services. Two surgeons in Southampton's hospital performed 230 major operations in seven hours. Corbett dug a trench in his lawn, kicking himself for having laid by no gasproof room for a bomby...
...armed members of the SIC, a militant political organization under German auspices, advanced on the border town of Munkacs, awarded to Hungary in the post-Munich territorial revision. Hungarian frontier police and troops met them. A battle began in which the Czech forces used tanks, armored cars and trench mortars...
...airplanes" and "tanks" which, upon capture, turn out to be reed matting or wooden imitations placed in the open to draw fire. Last week pictures arrived in the U. S. which show heads and shoulders of Chinese "soldiers" cut out of tin, nailed on stakes and jabbed into trenches-to make the Japanese think that Chinese trench lines were strongly manned...
...Tonight I will deal with that great trench of hate dug between the two powers during the Civil War and the eventual settlement of differences in the following period until...
Wally's doughboys, like British Bruce Bairnsfather's Tommies, were pathetic but unfrightened little runts wallowing in mud, beset by cooties and all the creature discomforts of trench warfare. Most endearing to his readers and most distressing to some General Staff "brass hats' was Wally's wholehearted disrespect for M.P.'s, top sargints, second looies and all forms of military discipline. Toward the more sanguinary aspects of the War, Wally maintained an attitude of good-humored fatalism...