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...Bridgehead Lost. To China, the Jap blow was serious. Six hundred miles southwest of Chungking, the enemy moved from northern Burma into Yünnan. His columns struck at a pocket of Chinese troops who for a year and a half have held, against attack and malaria, a 13-mile bridgehead including two ferry crossings, on the Salween River's west bank...
After a rest in the U.S. (to recover from malaria and dysentery), De Luce covered the Tunisian campaign. In Italy two weeks ago he ran into British General Harold Alexander, whom he had "covered" in Burma's darkest days. Said the General with well-bred surprise: "You [newspaper] chaps get around extraordinarily well...
...Life on an island in the South Pacific is very monotonous," he said, "broken only by work and the war on ants, lizards, flies and malaria. It was heaven to return...
...Trip Out. He personally got along all right until the trucks and jeeps had to be abandoned and the walking began. Then, besides his severe malaria, he developed four excruciating sores on his feet. On May 14 General Stilwell caught him resting in a blanket. "What's the matter, Seagrave, got fever?" "No, sir, I got wet and felt a little cold so was warming up." "How are your feet?" "Better, sir." "You are lying...
...where he slept on the floor "to ease my conscience." At the end of the book Seagrave is in Assam, happily planning hospital facilities to take care of the refugees out of Burma: "So pitiful. . . . They are starved and emaciated and . . . have picked up the most virulent forms of malaria, amebic and bacillary dysentery." The doctor and his own malaria (which he says he could cure if he had time to go to bed) are somewhere in India still...