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...last effort to take the German key points; they were attacking all along the line, but especially in the central part of the front, around Smolensk. In the far north, where winter still gripped the land, they were said to be sending reinforcements into Leningrad on a double-track railway over the ice of Lake Ladoga; in the far south also they were moving up reinforcements. There the land was thawing into the same awful gumbo that had sucked at hub caps back in the autumn, before the winter leave...
...week's end, 75 Japanese carrier-based planes attacked the harbor, airport and railway of Colombo, on the island of Ceylon, India's very appendix. Ceylon was alert, and the defenders rose up and knocked down 32 of the enemy, more than one in three. This score suggested that the British may be better stocked with aircraft in India than in Burma, but it also acutely reminded the Allies that every mile of the Japanese advance in Burma was also an advance on India. As a further reminder the Japanese next day bombed two towns on India...
...first emigrants to Manzanar were Japanese plumbers, carpenters, mechanics who will help build the desert city. Wives and children will follow later. Some projects with which the Army may keep its guests busy: laying broad-gauge track on the railway down the valley; driving a highway across the Sierras (nearest all-weather crossing is 400 miles away); farming. They will earn from $50 to $94 a month, with $15 deducted for living expenses. All they forfeit is their freedom. They cannot leave the camp without permission...
...helped in hospitals, escaped from scorched-out Changsha in a junk. Later, with some coolies, he walked a friend's three Chinese children cross-country, trying to reach the nearest train. The retreating Chinese destroyed railway lines more quickly than Schoyer and the children could reach them, but they finally got to safety. In Manhattan Schoyer now runs Spotlight on Asia, a radio program, for the Institute of Pacific Relations. He wants to get back to China...
This week ice breakers are out, smashing a channel to the Soo canal. Behind them Coast Guard boats are placing buoys, checking lights. At the ore docks, 70-ton cars of ore from the fabulous Mesabi range wait for the first ships, the Great Northern Railway men stand by, ready to smash a record made last October-333 ships loaded, at an average time of 2 hr. 35 min. per ship...