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...there was only one day's supply of water left. On Christmas military authorities told the Government that no further effective resistance could be offered with the 6,000 exhausted troops still fighting. In the afternoon Sir Mark crossed the blue strait to the mainland, met the Japanese in the swank Peninsula Hotel, where he surrendered and remained prisoner under guard...
Paradise lies to the west. Across the mountains there is a rolling country of bamboo, rubber plantations, tin mines: a country divided by a network of good roads, cut up by rice paddies, full of people and not beasts. It is washed by the quiet Malacca Strait, sheltered by the long Island of Sumatra...
Argentina. From South America's stronghold of isolationism, despite earlier fears of noncooperation, came strong assurances that Argentina would stand by her Havana Convention commitments (defining aggression against one American nation as aggression against the others). Chile and Argentina debated retirement of an agreement whereby the Strait of Magellan was to remain demilitarized perpetually...
Chile, major stockholder in South America's 5,093-mile Pacific coast line, readied a cruiser, an escort of submarines and a submarine mother ship for patrol of the coast and the Strait of Magellan...
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