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Siege. In Vichy, when word came of the resistance, Nazi stooge Pierre Laval decreed a state of siege for the Marseille waterfront. The German soldiers and Vichy police, encircling the Old Harbor, advanced up the narrow streets to carry out the evacuation orders. The crooked windows of the old houses spat fire. The citizens of Marseille fought fiercely; they had barricaded their doors and they shot to kill. It was not the first time they had had trouble with the Germans. In those tortuous streets and forbidding houses many a member of France's Underground had found safety...
...slippery spy was John Jacob Napp, who kept a Buenos Aires waterfront saloon. Arrested, he sang on his boss as well as his subordinates (TIME, Dec. 28) and last week furnished Argentina's Supreme Court with evidence necessary to open legal proceedings against German Naval Attaché Captain Dietrich Niebuhr. At the request of the Court, the Foreign Office demanded that the German Embassy waive Niebuhr's diplomatic immunity and permit him to stand trial...
Through the doors of the Colonial waterfront saloon in Buenos Aires wandered sea-weary Allied seamen whose nerves twitched from the strain of dodging torpedoes on the stormy Atlantic. The patrón, John Jacob Napp, was obliging, forever setting up drinks on the house and volunteering those bits of information and guidance so prized by sailors in strange ports. Napp was a good listener, too, and sometimes the seamen talked...
Unstuck? Then at week's end came brighter reports. Heavy and medium U.S. bombers unleashed two days of concentrated raiding on the docks of Tunis. The waterfront of that seaport was left in flames over a distance of ten blocks. Allied fighter operations were suddenly on the increase. P-38s (see p. 83) made a sweep across Tunisia's waist to attack Axis concentrations near Sfax. One dispatch told of Allied paratroops occupying an airdrome from which British Spitfires took off 30 minutes later to challenge the Luftwaffe...
...Frenchmen, Arabs and Berbers of the town (see cut). A destroyer nosed past the barges across the entrance to the harbor, darted up to one of the docks, disgorged a small force of U.S. Rangers, who scurried toward the big, white French Admiralty Building on the waterfront. When the docks were clear the destroyer threw a few shells, starting great fires, and dashed out of the harbor...