Jesse H Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, Goliad Campaign Houston Texas Business Directory, At least five million Chinese civilians from northern China and Manchukuo were enslaved between 1935 and 1941 by the East Asia Development Board or Koain for work in mines and war industries After 1942 the number reached 10 million in Java between 4 and 10 million romusha (Japanese: "manual labourers") were forced to work by the Japanese military About 270,000 of these Javanese labourers were sent to other Japanese-held areas in South East Asia and only 52,000 were repatriated to Java. . ! . Other devastating Texas hurricanes include the 1915 Galveston hurricane Hurricane Audrey in 1957 which killed over 600 people Hurricane Carla in 1961 Hurricane Beulah in 1967 Hurricane Alicia in 1983 Hurricane Rita in 2005 and Hurricane Ike in 2008 Tropical storms have also caused their share of damage: Allison in 1989 and again during 2001 and Claudette in 1979 among them. . The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad --the "Katy"--was the first railroad to enter Texas from the north.
. 13 See also On 3 September 1943 the Western Allies invaded the Italian mainland following Italy's armistice with the Allies. Germany with the help of fascists responded by disarming Italian forces that were in many places without superior orders seizing military control of Italian areas and creating a series of defensive lines. German special forces then rescued Mussolini who then soon established a new client state in German-occupied Italy named the Italian Social Republic causing an Italian civil war the Western Allies fought through several lines until reaching the main German defensive line in mid-November.
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