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...both man and maxim in mind when he opened the Western Desert campaign against the Axis in November. In the most hair-raising story of World War II it was revealed last week that, be fore the attack started, General Auchinleck sent a force of Britain's shock Commandos 200 miles behind the Axis lines. Their object: to destroy the enemy's leadership, in particular Nazi General Erwin Rommel...
...exchange for this material, Australia would pay off America and herself by keeping the Japanese out of her southwest corner of the Pacific. In the making also would be the best shock troops, proved already, that the Pacific Allies can produce...
...Colt company with a barrel so overbored that a bullet could be dropped right through the barrel without sticking. Add to this the fact that they were furnished with a quite hard bullet, sharp on the point, it is easy to see why they pierced flesh without delivering the shock they could have given if made blunt or square-shouldered. The English furnished their .455-caliber with a hollow cup blunt end, and when one of these struck it was curtains for the victim...
...shock. This is a state of physical and mental depression which follows injury. Simplest ways to recognize shock are by a victim's complexion, failing respiration; if he turns white, has a lifeless expression, he must be covered up immediately, kept warm, given a sniff of spirits of ammonia, a drink of strong tea or coffee. First Aiders must never give alcohol to their victims...
This week panic buyers of sugar and flour remembered how they had done the same thing in 1939, and how foolish they felt afterward. Theater attendance picked up. Christmas buying edged back to normal. The first shock was over...