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...navy-poor Southeast Asia Command last week recorded its first major kill at sea: a British submarine had destroyed a 5,100-ton Japanese cruiser almost within sight of Jap-held Sumatra and Malaya. It was the most successful invasion of enemy waters by a British submarine since H.M.S. Truant torpedoed two Japanese ships on its historic, 80,000-mile cruise through the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific...
...Insubordination began to get bad about ten years ago when relief came in," observed a Bronx truant officer last week...
...York last week truant officers were rushing all over town picking up moppets who, instead of attending schools, were out hauling scrap. A minimum of ten pounds equaled a ball-game ticket. In Brooklyn last week 60,000 young scholars bought their way into Ebbets Field with 600 tons of scrap...
...Truant officers, after several beatings, asked to be permitted to work in pairs instead of singly. Because Harlem's hoodlums attack without discrimination, law-abiding Negroes are as terrified as whites...
...young Britons are now safely seated in schools scattered over the countryside. Still in London are 112,000 hardy moppets. Only 20,000 went to school last winter, but by last week persistent truant officers had rounded up most of the rest and got them into classrooms. Many schools are crowded, noisy, uneasy; pupils spend much of their time popping into shelters and under desks...