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...land for 24 hours on Mexican airfields. At Acapulco, on the Pacific Coast almost due south of Mexico City, the Mexicans are building a big concrete wharf which will be used by U.S. warships. But the busiest defense spot in Mexico this week was Baja California, the long, skinny peninsula which juts southward from California...
...citizen has gambled, guzzled, bought souvenirs and knickknacks at Tijuana, Agua Caliente, Ensenada. Few have braved the one lumpy, unpaved road that reaches down to Baja California's tip. It was to patrol this area that President Avila Camacho obligingly sent troops to Baja California. Because the peninsula is inaccessible even from Mexico, he got permission to transport his soldiers by rail through Arizona and California (TIME...
Under his command last week General Cárdenas had several squadrons of Mexico's small air force, some armed Coast Guard cutters, a few seasoned troops. They can patrol the peninsula, but are hardly numerous enough to defend it. And they have other jobs: widening and improving the road, laying out airports, installing radio stations, digging wells...
...this kind of slashing could be stepped up, the Japs down the peninsula would have plenty to worry about...
...capture and siege. Besides about three dozen held in Axis countries who may later be exchanged, there was last week a lost battalion of 22 correspondents in the Philippines who vanished two days before Manila's fall. Presumably they were with General MacArthur's forces on Bataan Peninsula. Only A.P.'s Clark Lee got out a brief dispatch-about three soldiers who escaped capture by playing dead. His story was relayed by Naval radio. Like MacArthur's bare communiqués, it said nothing about the whereabouts of the correspondents. Adventures of some others: > At Rangoon...