Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government for the use of airports in southern France as "practice stations" for the Royal Air Force. The United Kingdom, it was said was too small for the speedy, long-range bombers Britain is building. From the bomber stations in the English midlands to the tip of Scotland and back, for instance, is a distance of only 1,000 miles. Practice or not, however, the British did not mind the conclusion that the planes would be a demonstration of Anglo-French military solidarity. Said the London Times: "There is no reason why the sight of the R. A. F. should...
...three divisions, in Central China 14, in North China 16. This imposing array of warriors and war machines, however, is locked tight to its present conquered territory, engaged solely in guarding its garrison posts and communication lines. Against them Chinese forces in the last six months have won back more towns and outposts than they have lost. Without sending more men to China, the Chinese argue, the Japanese cannot marshal at any one point the necessary strength for a successful offensive. Proof that the Japanese are stalled is in the fact that no recent offensive has been undertaken and that...
...Chinese success of the war since they defeated the Japanese at Taierchwang in the spring of 1938. Opposing the 100,000 Japanese was the crack Kwangsi Army of General Li Tsung-jen, hero of Taierchwang. General Li caught the Japanese spread out in the North Hupeh hills, threw them back with a loss of 27,000 men. Significantly, no farther than three or four miles back of the Japanese lines in this battle Chinese guerrillas were busy harassing Japanese communications...
...that turned the dusty plain into a quagmire, both sides dragged up heavy artillery. Japanese reinforcements were brought up from the rail head at Halunarshan while prisoners were sent north to Hailar on the old Chinese Eastern Railway. A "suicide corps" formed, to drive the last 2,000 Mongols back across the Khalka...
Last week the Elders of Andorra hiked over the mountains to France to pay their annual tribute to their French prince. According to laws dating back to 1278, it should have consisted of two of every kind of livestock raised in Andorra. President Lebrun, however, has no place to keep sheep and goats in the Elysée Palace at Paris, so his representative, Prefect Raoul Didkowski of the Lower Pyrenees, instead accepted...