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...including the Sahara Desert and French Somaliland as well as North Africa. After these war birds of Paris and the moderate Left have scared the Fascist daylights out of as much of French Africa as possible, the most potent bombers will fly on to impress Madagascar and finally French Indo-China...
...conference of wrist-slappers, Shanghai dispatches announced this week that at least two of the conference nations, the French Republic and the Soviet Union, are at length helping China to give Japan black eyes by supplying bombing planes flown to Nanking from Soviet Siberia and from French Indo-China. These ships this week were bombing Japanese positions not only at Shanghai but in North China, and every patriotic Chinese itched for the day when they will actually dare to fly over and for the first time in history bomb Japanese towns and cities...
With the coast effectively blockaded there seemed last week but two ways for any large amount of munitions to reach Chinese troops: from Russia, over the interminable caravan routes of Outer Mongolia, or from French Indo-China over the railroad from Hanoï to Yünnan in Yünnan Province. These would be thin trickles. China's only really efficient arsenal was at Mukden, has been in Japanese hands since 1931. Total output of other arsenals in China can provide about 800,000 rounds of rifle ammunition daily (about half a round per soldier), a few field...
...were reinforced from Manila by week's end; 3) British Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little commanding Britain's China Squadron; 4) nine hundred fifty British regulars, and a battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers hastily ferried over from Hong Kong; 5) about 1,000 small sallow French Indo-Chinese and Annamese soldiers; 6) small detachment of Italian Fascists; 7) the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, a brigade of mixed infantry and cavalry consisting principally of British and U. S. clerks and White Russian emigres...
...formed last week between Germany's Lufthansa and Air France. These two national airlines agreed to cooperate in test flights across the Atlantic, share each other's bases at each end. The agreement gives Germany rights at Dakar, Senegal, for South Atlantic flights, and at Hanoi. French Indo-China, for Far Eastern flying. France won the right to use Germany's catapult ships in the Atlantic. Co-operation was necessary because France lacks planes, Germany lacks capital, and both lack rights to land in the Azores, Bermuda, Canada...