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Thailand was invaded amphibiously at the neck of the Malay Peninsula. Bangkok was bombed. After five and a half hours' resistance, the Siamese gave up. They knew their cause was hopeless, since what little equipment their 100,000 soldiers had was second-rate Japanese stuff...
...real effort was a third of the way up the Malay Peninsula. There the wary British spotted five Japanese transports landing troops across monsoon-chopped waters in the moonlit night. The British rushed to meet them and repulsed the first assault. But the first assault was just a diversion. Ten miles to the south ten more Japanese transports were disgorging their eager little beach-climbers. Here the Japanese gained a foothold, then filtered through jungles and swamps toward Kota Bhary, site of an airdrome and junction of railways running south to Singapore and north to Thailand...
...Germans gained Crimea, they would be within six miles of the doubly vital Caucasus-vital for its oil, vital as Russia's best eventual supply line from the Allies. At Kerch, on the peninsula's extreme eastern end. only the Kerch Straits separate Crimea from Caucasus, and the Kerch Straits are only a little wider than the lower Dnieper, which the Germans bridged...
BERLIN--Military spokesmen intimated tonight that German and Finish troops have undertaken a far northern drive from the Salla area, 90 miles from the northwest corner of the While Sea, in an attempt to cut Russia's communications with the port of Murmansk and the whole Kila Peninsula...
This pleasant boring life might have continued but for Italy's Risorgimento. Everywhere patriotic Italians, with deathless heroism and the blessings of English liberals, were conspiring to upset the rudiments of order which Austria had almost succeeded in imposing on parts of the Peninsula. Teresa Guiccioli's father and brother, the Gambas, were patriots and revolutionists. Encouraged by them, Byron joined the Carbonari...