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Australians, guarding the gap above Kokoda, had tried to stop them along the single narrow trail that leads over the mountains. The Japs' methods were those they had used in Malaya and Burma. Monkeylike troops, with heads, legs and bodies painted green, filtered through the jungles. And the Australians retreated. Said an Australian officer: "They kept outflanking us and getting behind us. They could see us but we couldn't see them...
...smaller scale it appeared to be the same old story as Malaya-of allied troops that failed to adapt themselves adequately to jungle fighting. Some Japs carried hand grenades, had 2-in. mortars strapped to their legs, lugged flame throwers. And these impedimenta did not slow then down. Green men flowed through the green jungle...
...with Japan had entered its second phase. Every one of the Japanese occupied lands, from Malaya to the Solomons, was still a threat of a new Japanese offensive. But every one was also a place to be attacked, and therefore to be defended-a sponge sucking at Japan's limited total of men, ships and planes. The prospect that seemed empty and wishful when the Japs were advancing was now a reality. The Japs were now the defenders, and they had to choose places to let go by default-as perhaps they did last week in China...
...mule troops until 1941, is far behind the Axis. A new camp abuilding in Colorado (elevation 9,500 ft.) will train a whole division. This is only a small start. Of possible U.S. theaters of war, nearly a fifth are mountainous: e.g., Alaska, the Canal Zone, Iceland, Malaya, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece. In such terrain, where mechanized divisions stall, the U.S. may some day have to depend on its mountain troopers and slogging, sure-footed mules...
...anti-British group is composed of the middle class which is about ten percent of the population. Masani attend that unless the situation were remedied immediately, the same thing that occurred in Burma and Malaya would be repeated in India. "A starving nation is unable to fight," he said...