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...home when he was 16. He wandered about Liverpool and Plymouth until he had passed the minimum age requirement to join the Marines and just after his 18th birthday signed up in his Majesty's service. After a time in barracks he was stationed aboard the "Newcastle" after the outbreak of war and has remained there ever since...
VICHY--Eight alleged Communists accused of terrorism and anti-German "manifestations" were executed in Paris today amid a new outbreak of sabotage in which 10 men wrecked several German army cars in a Paris garage and escaped...
...outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Mariquita and Jaime were natural Loyalists. Their mother favored Franco. She made no attempt to reach the children, even when they fled Franco's approach, first to Chile and then to Argentina...
...Hungarian antifascist, Habe enlisted in France's 21st Foreign Volunteers at the outbreak of the war. In May 1940 his regiment, stationed in Alsace, was ordered west. In Ardennes they held the front entrusted to them for three weeks, then joined the general retreat. A little south of Domrémy, on June 21, they received orders to lay down their arms; France had sued for armistice. Habe was then captured by Germans, was imprisoned with 22,000 other troops at Dieuze, escaped in August into Unoccupied France...
...annual harvesttime outbreak of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) neared its peak last week, rumors of an epidemic swept southern and eastern U.S. They were exaggerated. Nowhere did the disease reach epidemic proportions. Hundreds of cases were reported (as against only two cases of plague-see col. 1). But hundreds of cases are not abnormal at this time of year. Facts...