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Last week the Chinese High Command in bomb-scarred Chungking had grave new worries. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's troops have been getting most of their war supplies from the southwest over the Burma Road, from the southeast by night smuggling from Hong Kong-via Chinese junks and coolies' carts-to the free sections of the Canton-Hankow railway. Last week the Japanese were slicing viciously at both supply lines...
When Air Marshal Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal was made Chief of Air Staff last October, the choice was hailed as an indication that Britain was preparing to take the offensive against the Luftwaffe. For Sir Charles was previously head of the Bomber Command-an expert in carrying the fight to the enemy...
Under Sir Andrew Cunningham's second-in-command, acting Vice Admiral Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, an expert on big ships, the battle force undertook daring raids into the Strait of Otranto and once far beyond Valona in the Adriatic. It also laid siege to the Italian Dodecanese Islands. Last week the fleet splashed into "bomb alley"-the narrow Sicilian channel dominated by Italian Pantelleria on the one hand and German Stuka forces based on the island of Sicily on the other. But the Axis did not show its double head...
After the Troop took part in the First Army Maneuvers near Ogdensburg, N. Y. last August, an Army inspector reported: "The officers are well qualified ... to properly command appropriate units in combat. . . . Practically all non-commissioned officers could take their places as officers . . . without additional training...
...corps will go to Khartoum, where they will make final preparations for setting out across the Sahara to join the army of General Laminat under de Gaulle. Possible objectives of these Free French troops are the Italians in Libya or even the troops of the Vichy Government under the command of General Weygand on the Ivory Coast of West Africa...