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...bombers (some of them U. S.-made Martins). In the Far East the U. S. has two cruisers, 13 destroyers, twelve submarines besides patrol and bombing planes. Against an attenuated Japanese supply line they could play particular hell. To prevent this, Japan would probably be forced to give her cargo craft the support of her fleet, with the danger that the U. S. Fleet might cut it off from home...
...Manzanillo, Mexico-on Mexico's Pacific shore almost due west of Mexico City-the 6,892-ton armed merchant cruiser Prince Robert closed in on the 9,179-ton North German Lloyd freighter Weser and took her prize. Aboard the Weser was a fishy cargo: 19,000 bbl. of fuel oil, 600 bbl. of lubricating oil, 15 live steers, a large stock of fresh vegetables and a "lot of miscellaneous stuff." Her clearance papers were not in order. Mexican officials, who thought that the vessel was headed either for a supply rendezvous at sea, or for Vladivostok, whence...
...smooth the path of Japan. The Open Door was closed now, perhaps forever. Britain and France had ceased to exist in the Chinese reckoning. There was talk of the U. S. Navy occupying the British base at Singapore to safeguard democratic interests in the Far East. But a cargo of San Francisco's old streetcar tracks was about to leave the U. S. last week to make more guns to kill Chinese. In Chungking, America had become only an expression of distaste...
...backing General de Gaulle was reported. General Julien François René Martin, commanding the Indo-Chinese forces, announced that he would resign if the Japanese demands were granted. The Ile de France, interned at Singapore by the British while en route to French Indo-China with a cargo of airplanes, was reported at Saïgon, headquarters of pro-De Gaulle forces, with its cargo intact. British diplomatic circles even declared that Admiral Decoux had forsaken Vichy and cast his lot with De Gaulle but had refrained from announcing it because if French Indo-China became a British...
Blitzkrieg had, however, not yet closed the port of London. U. S. correspondents who last week visited that 3,668-acre area at the mouth of the Thames, which in peacetime used to handle more than 1,000,000 tons of cargo per week, found scores of ships from all parts of the British Empire, South America, the Far East, unloading food and war goods for Britain, loading cargoes for export. With no passenger trade and with all Scandinavian and Continent traffic suspended, the port was far less bustling than normally, but workers employed (including crews) ran as high...