[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Southwest Russia, 1942: German Summer Offensive, Operations, 7 May-23 July 1942
North Africa, 1940: Rommel’s Second Offensive, 21 January-7 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Red Army Yields – 2
Freeing of Convicts for Army is Favored (Gallup) – 2
Soviet Using Dogs to Blow up Tanks (by Ilya Ehernburg, first-time contributor) – 3
War News Summarized * – 3
Bengazi is Raided – 4
Axis Gets 15 Ships; 231 Dead, Missing – 4-6
Enemy Reinforces to Attack Kiangsi – 6
A Restive Congress (Krock) – 7
Aleutians as a Key (Baldwin) – 8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 9-10

* Small item on page 3: “De Gaulle Got Molotoff Pledge.”

But did they shake on it? Doesn’t say.

[PeterPrinciple]

SHIP WAR RISK RATES UP

Charges for Panama Canal Traffic to Australasia Raised to 15%’’

The Institute of London Underwriters announced today that under a new schedule effective June 24 war risk rates between North and South American and Australasia via the Panama Canal and Pacific Ocean would be increase from 5 to 15 percent.

Other rates under the institutes new listings to or from points in North and South American included:

West and South Africa, Canary Islands and East Africa, 12.5 percent

Haifa and Alexandria, 20 percent

Port Said and Suez 17.5 percent

Red Sea and Aden 12.5 percent

Rates for ports requiring sailing via the Cape of Good Hope were up 5 percent, the institute said.

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War does raise the cost of doing business.