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Most likely spots for the Big Push are the Sagunto sector, where the Insurgent drive on Valencia was halted by the Loyalist counteroffensive on the Ebro four months ago, or the area around Lerida in the north, where an Insurgent break-through would place Franco within striking distance of Barcelona...
...cross purposes. When the army columns belatedly arrived in Hankow last week the army commanders decided to use buildings in the refugee zone as troop billets and Father Jacquinot, after spending thousands of dollars of relief money, was ordered out. A new zone was established in the Chinese native sector on the Han River...
...Corps got some comfort from the biggest "blackout" yet staged by the U.S. Army. In part of the defense sector, 66 towns were darkened to find out: whether voluntary cooperation by citizens could achieve a blackout efficient enough to baffle night bombers. Answer: No. Inability to darken scattered rural homes and keep cars off highways* in so large an area defeated the blackout. Bombers found their way with ease, theoretically wrecked Fort Bragg...
This neutral U. S. correspondents eyewitnessed. Dashing about in motorcars, they verified that only in the western frontier sector of the Sudeten German area had there been bloodshed. The north, east and south were calm "with business as usual," but in the west 46 had been killed by Wednesday night and savage acts were verified. Citizens of Habersberg gave eyewitness testimony that on Tuesday fully-armed Sudeten Nazis had besieged the local commandant and his gendarmes for three hours. When the commandant surrendered and emerged, they said, Nazis closed in around him, beat and kicked the commandant to death...
Wheat made the most news last week, but the Government was busy on many another troubled sector on the agricultural front...