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...infantry-lean, navy-poor Southeast Asia Command last week recorded its first major kill at sea: a British submarine had destroyed a 5,100-ton Japanese cruiser almost within sight of Jap-held Sumatra and Malaya. It was the most successful invasion of enemy waters by a British submarine since H.M.S. Truant torpedoed two Japanese ships on its historic, 80,000-mile cruise through the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific...
...Allied drive from India will find the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sumatra and Malaya stoutly defended. Japanese air power centers around Singapore. Any enemy approach will be both costly and foolhardy...
...near Mandalay and along the Irrawaddy River. Allied-trained and equipped Chinese troops, based in India, skirmished with Jap troops along the North Burma frontier, forced their retreat and destroyed their lines of communication. Reports came of British submarine operations as far south as the Strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula...
...time doctors, 17 part-time doctors, two dentists, 123 nurses, 23 laboratory and X-ray technicians, 24 pharmacists, 32 first-aid men, 331 orderlies, nurses' aides, etc. It has 29 hospitals (1,121 beds) in Peru, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Aruba (Dutch West Indies). It also had several in Sumatra. It runs the only accredited nursing school in northern Argentina. It also publishes the world's only intercompany medical journal, The Medical Bulletin, in which Standard's Dr. Robert C. Page last week reviewed the company's unflagging, pioneering medical work in the last ten years...
...days earlier Standard's excellent medical facilities in Sumatra-twelve hospitals (278 beds), nine doctors, 21 nurses, 136 attendants-had been submerged by the onrushing Japanese. They have not been heard from since...