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Manpower. The Japanese Army has scarcely been touched. In all the South Pacific theater and in Burma, not more than three or four Jap divisions are in immediate contact with Allied troops. Probably not more than 40,000 Japanese soldiers have been knocked out. The Japs still have almost 3,500,000-about 750,000 in Manchukuo, 800,000 in China, perhaps 100,000 in Indo-China, Malaya and Thailand, more than 75,000 in Burma, perhaps 90,000 in the southern islands, and all the rest in "depot" divisions in Formosa and Japan...
...have refineries at work. She has enough rubber to sell some to Russia'. She has acquired iron in Kcjrea, Indo-China, Malaya and the Philippines-enough for an annual steel production of something less than 8,000,000 tons; coal in Korea and China; lead and zinc in Burma; bauxite in Malaya and The Netherlands East Indies; chrome in the Philippines; antimony in China. Her facilities for processing these metals are not altogether satisfactory. She can count on rice from Burma, Thailand, Formosa; sugar from the Philippines and Netherlands Indies; soybeans from China. Lumber, especially for shipping, worries...
...further insisted that we must put in black and white the meaning of every Asiatic nation be it China, Burma or India...
...Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate on an exclusive contract basis. The solution: Caniff, beginning last week, draws a lusty, weekly strip for Army newspapers but calls it Male Call, gives his characters names not used in the regular Terry strip. To replace Terry's beautiful, bosomy Burma, there will be a dark, Orientalish, bosomy Caniff gal who will cavort in usual Burma fashion, wisecrack as lustily as the Army-version Burma...
...parts of the U.S. they were from. Often he was able to detect not only Philadelphia, for example, but also what part of Philadelphia. Today Lieut. Smith has a full-time job teaching soldiers, via phonograph records, a smattering of the odd dialects they are meeting from Tunis to Burma. He is an outstanding pedagogue in the thriving field of language-teaching-by-record...