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...stopped 60% of all enemy supplies destined for all ports in Africa. Between the extreme rear (Tripoli) and the immediate rear (Bengasi) a British raiding force presumably still straddled the Axis supply roads. The only steady flow of Axis supplies came by plane and night. In the sector of supply the British had the advantage, and time might increase that advantage...
Meanwhile the British, aided by Chinese attacking the Japanese rear, threw back Japanese attacks on Hong Kong, as well as repulsing further Japanese attempts to advance in North Malaya. Further cheering news from this sector was that about 2,330 officers and men out of 2,500 had been saved from the sunken British warships Prince of Wales and Repulse...
This terrain is decorated with superb internal communications, which favor the defender. Moscow is the focus of ten radiating railroads, and even though the Germans have cut six of those roads, the stumps are still available for throwing troops into this or that sector of the front. There are, besides, eleven trunk highways and numberless small roads running north, west and south from the city. Moscow teems with busses, trucks and cars available for urgent transport...
...people of the Moscow area number more than 8,000,000. They constitute an unprecedented labor army, which can be, and has been, rushed to every threatened sector, there to construct cement fortlets, dig bunkers, repair breaches and sow mines as prodigally as wheat...
Military dispatches said that in one sector of the Southern front German soldiers stormed and occupied an "important" but unidentified town, wiping out the opposing Soviet army corps "to the last...