Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Admiralty apparently had learned of Nazi plans for a "demonstration" bombing flight of 500 German planes just to give Britons some idea of what might be in store for them later. The Admiralty was evidently convinced that German military leaders would try out the Douhet "lightning stroke air attack" theory of war and that the first stroke would be an attempt to immobilize the British Home Fleet...
...Night attack from the air while warships are at sea is not very feasible. But where ships lie close together in harbor the chances of hits from the air are much greater. Even a bomb exploding in the water 50 ft. from a ship acts as a depth charge and may do serious damage...
...Sydney last week Australia's Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons, 59, contracted a chill in the damp autumn weather; two days later he lay dead of a heart attack. His death ended his administration at seven years, three months -just two weeks short of the record made by Prime Minister William Morris Hughes...
Died. Joseph Aloysius Lyons, 59, onetime Tasmanian school teacher, outstanding labor leader, since 1932 Prime Minister of Australia; of a heart attack; in Sydney...
Died. William Hallock Park, 75, specialist in the public health aspects of diphtheria, pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, sometimes called "the American Pasteur"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...