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Only one ashtray remains (chained and marked "Booby Trap"), and one roommate had his shirt torn off his back by admiring readers of the SERVICE NEWS. He managed to get back the buttons and one pocket by offering to autograph the strips...
Throughout the Balkans were reports of tracks torn up, bridges destroyed, street rioting and Partisan vengeance. The peasants, sensing a bad winter, hid their crops from the prying eyes of Axis collectors...
...Germany's defenses in southeastern Europe will be disrupted by the loss of the Italian Army. Italian troops, weak in battle, nevertheless do garrison duty in guerrilla-torn Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete. Algiers heard that Marshal Badoglio had ordered the withdrawal of 22 divisions from garrison duty. If this was true, the Germans will have to garrison these countries, or else abandon them. The German chances of holding the Balkans against their own heartened rebels, much less against invasion, will be lessened. Said A.P. Correspondent Wesley Gallagher, recently returned from Allied Headquarters in Algiers: "If Italy sues for peace...
...Surabaya, on the island of Java, was not sleeping. Lights glittered along the waterfront, indicating that the Jap was making full use of this great shipping and naval base he had torn from the Dutch. Out of the dawn swept a formation of Liberator bombers, their exhausts glowing red. For 70 minutes they "buzzed" the city, bombing warehouses, railroads, docks. Most important target was the big oil refinery. As the bombers winged homeward to their Australian base, flames from the refinery could be seen for 140 miles. It was the longest raid of the Pacific war-2,400 miles round...
...Miami News Editorialist Francis P. Locke argued that to fire Schweitzer verged on tyranny. Next day he wrote: "A sad blow to the ideals for which we are fighting . . . flesh and blood and bones of democracy . . . torn, spilled and crushed...