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...islands are a threat to Japan's flank if she moves on The Netherlands Indies. To prepare for such a move, the Japanese may well make a sudden assault on the islands. The archipelago's first line of defense would be Admiral Thomas Charles Hart's thin Asiatic Fleet (two cruisers, 13 destroyers, 12 submarines, as of June 1940). In a prolonged attack the Japanese would also have to meet the full might of the Pacific Fleet, now based on Honolulu. But what worries Filipinos is the problem of immediate defense against an invasion...
...Sidi Barrani the assault took three days. At Bardia it took two and a half. This time, at Tobruch, the job was done in one. The pattern was familiar by now. First the thin semicircle of defense around Tobruch was surrounded. Day before the attack, by way of feint, heavy concentrations of vehicles and men were massed east of the town, near the sea. In the night they were stolen away to the point of real attack-a place just by the Bardia road where the Italians, in digging their tank traps, had come to solid rock and dug down...
...World War I, the island of Malta was used as a vast hospital for wounded Allies. But this forbidding rock offers thin hospitality in this war. Angry are its forts, its schools of mines crowding ten miles out to sea, its anti-aircraft guns, its airdromes with hangars sheltered by bombproof rock quarries, its harbor-mouths teethed with 10-, 14-, 16-inch guns, its dockyard, its seaplane and sub marine bases...
...oldest object is a thin, hammered gold collar or lunula dating back...
...liquidate their U. S. stocks. This month, with big domestic sales added to the British unloading, it has reached a new high. At last week's end January sales totaled 8,065,090 shares on the exchange floor, 1,032,579 off the floor. Reason: the present thin market on the exchange cannot stand the weight of big offerings. Dumping 500,000 shares of Standard Oil on the market last week would have constituted a major bear raid; its private sale disturbed quotations hardly at all. Selling securities off the exchange is expensive: for handling the Harkness stock...