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Near Lillesand, on Norway's southeast tip, a British sub sent two torpedoes crashing into the hull of the 5,261-ton German freighter Rio de Janeiro. The world knew she had slammed a troop transport when Norwegian fishermen reported picking up live and dead German soldiers in field uniform. The Rio de Janeiro had had aboard 500 soldiers, 80 horses. Where were they bound? Why? The overture began. Through the Skagerrak steamed a fleet of 125 German armed ships including one pocket battleship, either Admiral Scheer or Lutzow...
Sergeant Holsen and another policeman were riding patrol one day when they sighted a troop of baboons. The men took a few pot shots with their revolvers and the apes fled. One, scuttling on all fours like the rest, lagged behind. Captured, he proved to be a black native boy, 12 to 14 years old. Like a baboon, he chattered, jerked and nodded his head, scratched his body with his forefinger. He had a nervous, baboon-like grin. His quadrupedal gait had caused an abnormal overdevelopment of his haunches...
...enemy's home front is highly effective even against people as calm and well organized as the Finns. If port facilities and factories are not put out of commission, their functioning is greatly reduced by air-raid interruptions. Though torn-up tracks may soon be relaid, troop trains are harassed, train schedules disrupted by repeated threats from above...
First reports of difficulties came from Nomonhan, on the Manchukuo-Outer Mongolian border, scene of severe fighting last summer. Observers told of troop and supply trains being rushed to the old front. Fighting was reported, then denied by Japan...
...into their parkas if they had been forced to stay on their own side of the Atlantic during March. This year, with Europe verboten, the habitues of St. Moritz, St. Anton and other Alpine resorts have discovered that the U. S. has pretty good skiing, too. Instead of a troop of self-taught enthusiasts who yell "track" and schuss helter-skelter down a hill, the U. S. now boasts a well-trained army of 1,000,000 or more whose snowplows and Christies are as polished as their skis. Instead of a few isolated trails, there is a nationwide labyrinth...