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...Channel. Perhaps he would spring from Norway. Last week Swedish newshawks reported a German transport torpedoed in the Kattegat, bound for Norway with 4,000 men aboard. Swedes have also reported troop and transport concentrations at Bergen and Stavanger. Perhaps Hitler would use Eire, which has declared it would resist British "protection" with force. Perhaps he would come...
...Rumanian peasants were being shunted to new homes. They and their chickens and ducks overflowed Rumanian railway cars so tightly jammed that most of the human and animal freight got in & out of windows instead of doors. Small bands of Rumanian soldiers and petty officers announced they would resist the Hungarians by waging guerrilla warfare in the Carpathians, but none of these bands caused the occupying Hungarian forces much trouble...
...Home Guard is a military force, orderly established, and as such, according to international war regulations, fully justified to resist an enemy with arms. This can be seen by the wording of The Hague Convention of 1907, applying to the usages and laws of ground warfare...
...Another article . . . says that if residents of an unoccupied area take up arms voluntarily and resist invading troops and if they have had the time to organize themselves, they are to be regarded as military forces and can claim the recognized rights of armed forces for themselves [i.e., if captured, to be held prisoner, not put to death], provided they carry their arms openly and follow the rights and usages...
...suspense. They want to conquer London by isolating it from the nearby arteries which every morning unload in Covent Garden, in Billingsgate and on the docks tons and tons of foodstuffs that London does not produce and without which the 7,000,000 inhabitants of the city could not resist one month...