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...Inland waterways in Hupeh, winding through rivers and lakes, famous for their river pirates, were transformed by war into one of China's most important smuggling networks. Cloth, medicine, cigarets and cotton pour through these channels from provinces as far distant as Chekiang, Anhwei, Kiangsu. Now Japan's troops straddle these inland waterways. To cut traffic entirely, they have to advance only 20 miles more, to Santouping's fortifications...
...Surrender. The advance started under cover of a heavy bombardment from U.S. warships. Not until the attacking columns reached points about three miles inland did they encounter serious resistance. On Temnac Bay, beyond Murder Point, a unit led by Captain Robert Goodfellow surprised a Jap gun position. Before the guns could be manned every defender was killed. Not one offered to surrender. Another unit landing at Blind Cove fought across a ridge, waist-deep in snow, to join a main assault column. The Jap was tricky. Routed from one foxhole, he would escape by tunnel to another. But his tricks...
Since Pearl Harbor the industry has expanded over 200 times. Diamond-cutting methods now used by most manufacturers have speeded up production, cut down waste. The best crystals come from inland Brazil, but WPB is pushing U.S. exploration. The Japs, incidentally, in 1930 bought up a tidy supply of quartz crystals which were an unwanted byproduct of California gold mining. Every Jap communications set captured so far has been quartz-equipped...
This fortress was more than a series of coastal guns. It was not just a wall, a thing to be pierced. It was a mobile fortress. Its walls could move from hill to hill. It consisted of great pools of armor and flesh, standing well inland from the coasts, ready to fling themselves at enemy beachheads, and of planes and submarines, striking on the approaches to the coasts...
Early this week infantry of the Afrika Korps which had stood opposite the Eighth Army held a bulge inland from the base of the Cap. The French XIX Corps and units of the Eighth which had not moved north for the main attack (see col. 2) moved slowly forward, reducing the bulge. From the north, British armor cut down across the mouth of the Cap. slicing into the flank of the bulge. Cap Bon was just a place for a useless last stand...