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Pagina 19
... Singapore in the last of the steamers . Why we were not bombed I do not know . could only do eight knots , were crowded with passengers , and should have been a sitting target . We and no less than a metal box . One could not touch any ...
... Singapore in the last of the steamers . Why we were not bombed I do not know . could only do eight knots , were crowded with passengers , and should have been a sitting target . We and no less than a metal box . One could not touch any ...
Pagina 141
... Singapore were magnificent right up to the end . Singapore was a town of contrasts . Troop transports full of men clattered through villages with native children playing ball outside the houses . Heavy bull - dozers rumbled past ...
... Singapore were magnificent right up to the end . Singapore was a town of contrasts . Troop transports full of men clattered through villages with native children playing ball outside the houses . Heavy bull - dozers rumbled past ...
Pagina 181
... Singapore had been described by those who should know in such extravagant terms as " impregnable fortress , " " Bastion of the East . " This was not a deliberate bluff . Everyone believed it . Let us therefore examine its features to ...
... Singapore had been described by those who should know in such extravagant terms as " impregnable fortress , " " Bastion of the East . " This was not a deliberate bluff . Everyone believed it . Let us therefore examine its features to ...
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CONTENTS | 69 |
NATUK EXPERIENCES IN THE LIFE OF DR H G ESMONDE | 105 |
A HUNDRED YEARS OF THE KHYBER PASS BY MAUD DIVER | 157 |
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