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...German High Command has announced that German casualties for the first two months and nine days of the war in Russia (up to Aug. 31) were 402,865 men. This was probably propaganda, but it may be accepted as a minimum figure. Assuming that the Germans have lost as many again since Aug. 31, then German losses would have been...
Charles Léon Clement Huntziger was a fine professional soldier from his cadet days at Saint-Cyr to his 1940 command of France's Second Army, when he made a bitter-end stand against the Nazis at the Meuse. Marshal Pétain picked him, as a properly brave, dignified warrior, to sign the armistice with Germany in Compiegne forest...
...until the next session of Parliament, in January, will Leader Meighen be able to assume active command of his Party. Before then he must resign his Senate seat, accept a seat in the House which some Conservative member will, by convention, surrender...
Back in the '20s, when he was captain in command of the battleship Mississippi, Tommy Hart was just as independent as he is today. Once, while leading eleven other battleships in a pea-soup fog, he heard a destroyer's warning siren, somewhere off his bow. Promptly, without consulting his fleet commander, he ordered the line to stop. Hauled up on the carpet for breach of regulations, he exploded: "If I couldn't see, how the hell could the flagship at the end of the line?" He was officially rebuked, unofficially applauded...
...Johnson. Perhaps this will be remedied to some extent if Carmen is given a little more time and another number or two like "Thanks North America"; but whether this is done or not, "Sons 'o Fun" has sufficient steam up for a long and happy voyage under the command of captains Olsen and Johnson...