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Lost Wail. Leros in ancient days was the place where the daughters of Oeneus, turned into guinea hens, wailed for their brother Meleager. Last week the wailing was loudest in London. There were un official suggestions that General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson of the Mid-East Command ought to be replaced. The General did his duty, gave an explanation which left the blame...
Cragg was proud of his medals, particularly the D.S.C. and the Silver Star. But his mind was on the man from New Mexico. He used to say, "If I could only shoot like Dan Roberts . . . he was the greatest deflection shot in New Guinea...
...Reinforced U.S. troops fought grimly in the jungles of Bougainville, wrenching advances of several hundred yards in the Empress Augusta Bay area while engineers rushed construction of airstrips. Australian troops, using Matilda tanks smuggled in secretly at night, increased pressure against the Japanese in the Finschhaven sector of New Guinea...
...short of planes, possibly even of trained jungle fighters, was grievously hurt. He could not adequately protect both the New Ireland-New Guinea area and the Central Pacific islands with what he had in sight. One battle zone or the other would have to remain weak, or reinforcements would have to be rushed from distant zones. Chungking reports indicated that the Japanese might be doing just this: fleet concentrations were said to be moving south off Fukien Province, and heavy troop movements were taking place from Manchukuo and North China...
Last fortnight the most promising anti-t.b. drug to date was announced: Professor George W. Raiziss of Abbott Laboratories reported in Science that disodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate diamino-diphenylsulfone (short name: Diasone) is the best drug yet used to treat guinea pigs newly infected with tuberculosis. It is a sulfa drug which Professor Raiziss says is even better than Promin, another diaminodiphenylsulfone derivative, hitherto the best anti-t.b. drug. Three good points about Diasone: it is only slightly toxic, therefore can be used in fairly large quantities with safety; it is as good as sulfanilamide in curing streptococcus infections...