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...camp work eight hours a day five days a week in the hot sun on firebreaks, fire-roads and trails, and on what are called erosion works. Every week-end 50% of the camp personnel is required to remain in camp at all times in case of a fire outbreak. A "fire suppression" crew of 24 C.C.C. men are on duty at all hours to answer fire calls with a fire truck...
Hospitalized in Honolulu last week were two Army aviators who had been badly beaten in what military authorities feared might be a fresh outbreak of rowdyism by Hawaiian natives. Lieutenants LeRoy Hudson and Walter S. Lee were out motoring with two women one evening when another car was slewed across the road in front of them. Getting out to investigate, the officers were set upon by four Hawaiians. The women raced to a nearby house for aid, returned to find the lieutenants lying unconscious on the banks of the Mawai Canal, not far from where Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie...
...shek stampeded his soldiers into the empty villages the Japanese had evacuated. His 50,000 became "truculent," claimed a grand Chinese victory. Last week the Japanese Foreign Office called this situation "ambiguous," "intolerable." It announced Japan had already given "the only warnings that will be given of the outbreak of large scale hostilities immediately north of Peiping." Meanwhile the retreating Japanese had made a left swing, showed up north of Peiping. To squelch Chiang Kai-shek's soldiers the new advance will "probably be on a larger scale than heretofore, requiring the special sanction of the Emperor...
...reorganization and improvement of national defense represented an estimated saving of $50,000,000 per year for U. S. taxpayers. "The Army has become so complicated." declared General Hagood. "that an archangel right out of Heaven could not operate it. ... The War Department has always collapsed at the outbreak of every war and the present organization will collapse at the outbreak of the next war because it is too topheavy, contains too many conflicting agencies, has too much divided responsibility...
...Order the regulars to the rear at the outbreak of war to train a citizen army and throw the militia immediately into the first fighting line. Explained General Hagood: "This is the manner in which the Confederate Army used the regular army officers it got at the outbreak of the Civil War. It is the plan recommended for future wars by Grant in his memoirs. It is the plan the British wished they'd had after they lost the flower of their army in the first few battles in France...