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...Then, at dawn on Jan. 3, backed by the R. A. F. and a barrage of heavy artillery, the Australians struck. Big, husky, uncontrollable men. they, like their Anzac fathers before them, had for months made their officers' lives hell. They had taken the war as a vast, rowdy picnic. On the way to their battle stations they had made themselves more feared than the enemy wherever they stopped, made a shambles of Army discipline. When they were refused permission to land in Ceylon they swam ashore in their shorts, frolicked about half-naked in the streets...
...dawn on Jan. 4 the Italians could reply only with intermittent fire. The British land-sea-air attack had silenced most of their guns. Huge clouds of smoke hung over the battered town. Then a whole section of the cliff gave way. Roaring down to the sea in an avalanche of sand and rock it wiped out many of the Italian gun positions in a single stroke...
...wireless or I will shoot mast down. I am going to shoot at stores and phosphate jetties." This message, flashed ashore by lamp signals, was received one dawn last week on Nauru, a tiny British-mandated atoll just under the equator, 2,000 miles northeast of Australia. The sender was a merchantman raider which, just before making good its threat, hauled down the Japanese flag, ran up the Nazi swastika. None of Nauru's 3,400 inhabitants (194 Europeans) was hurt, but warehouses and platforms loaded with Nauru's main product-guano (seabird droppings) for explosives and fertilizer...
...dawn last week cold enough to make a man's nostrils stick together, the Albanian coast appeared as a thin line over the sea in the east to a silent row of British battleships approaching Valona. Not far inland, the Greeks were slogging slowly ahead with their mountain warfare through deep snowdrifts. The sea was cold, grey and unusually calm for the Adriatic. Just before sunrise Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham ordered: "Open fire." The big ships belched thunderously and shook...
...Reformation has Christian feeling in the Reich been more intense. This Christmastide will see millions of Germans quietly celebrating a Christian Christmas. Protestants and Catholics alike will sing that best-beloved of all carols, Silent Night, in the fervent hope that the silent night will be followed by the dawn...