Tribune: Of six articles on the Invasion, two are dated the 10th and four are dated the 11th; none are up to date. Articles from Berlin are somewhat childish: "Strange as it may seem, Marshal Rommel is once again to face B.L. Montgomery ... but the peninsula is not suitable for tank fighting.... Montgomery has been studying some 85,000 different kinds of new German weapons but he has faced only several hundreds of them."

"Heroic Nippon pilots sink cruiser, destroyer off Biak." Three pilots: two crashed against ships and one crashed against "ground troops." The story is told by one Major Motomiya, who "reached his base safely after being thrown overboard from a crippled plane which plunged into the sea."

The joke is that Commentator fainted on hearing of the second front. He's now back to his old self: "Despite two years' preparations, landing operations face collapse."

Japanese ships announced sunk this month: By subs, 34; by Task Force, 13; by planes, 15 or 16. The total of 62 to 63 is sensational.

La Vanguardia: "English escape Kohima ... great casualties suffered in flight" — the Japanese were supposed to be holding it.