Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occupied it on July 11; 4) Japanese forces drove the Russians from the hill on July 31. Not mentioned, of course, was the fact that Changkufeng, once firmly held and fortified by either Russia or Japan, would be an important strategic position, commanding with its guns a future naval base which the Red Navy hopes to build at nearby Posieta...
Next day he fished for the last time this trip, off Providence Island, historic base of piratical Sir Henry Morgan. Thence the Houston weighed anchor for Pensacola, politics and national problems...
...point where the Tumen flows into the sea lies Changkufeng Hill, a prominence which has unusual military importance since to the east it commands Posieta Bay which is of naval importance to Russia. To the south-west it commands the coast in the vicinity of Rashin, a Japanese naval base...
Since Russia's naval base at Vladivostok is frequently icebound and Rashin is an all-year port, the Soviet was already too much at a disadvantage to let Changkufeng fall into Japanese hands. This week the Russians got busy. They drove a wedge down to the Tumen north of the disputed hill, cutting off its Japanese defenders, whose only bridge across the river is higher up. Japanese officers in the area were incensed. "It is crazy," one of them exploded to a correspondent, "for the Russians to attempt to retake Changkufeng!" Meanwhile Moscow, with something at last to boast...
...just out, that's all," said Mickey Cochrane, almost as stunned as when he was beaned last summer. "Believe me, it was a distinct surprise," said 46-year-old Delmar Baker as he was upped from his third-base coaching job to become the new manager of the Tigers...