Word: battalion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside the building every fire crew in Tokyo was at work but there was not a fire ladder in the city tall enough to reach the roof. Army planes swooped overhead trying to drop ropes to the milling crowds on the roof. A battalion of troops with fixed bayonets held back hysterical crowds that blocked traffic in the heart of Tokyo for three hours. Slowly, painfully most of those trapped in the building were lowered down ropes to the street. At nightfall police checked up: 14 dead, over 100 injured, property damage estimated...
...Royal Battalion...
...followers to break it up, then hold a protest meeting of their own in the Plaine de Plainpalais, the Union Square of Geneva. At this point hysteria seized Geneva authorities, who seldom have a riot to deal with. Troops were called out. the only troops available being a battalion of 20-year-old boys who had worn uniforms for less than two weeks...
...Ireland counties as fast as careening trucks could skid over the roads. As in Dublin in 1916, the rioters started sniping from the rooftops. Belfast police wasted no time, replied with revolvers & rifles. In a few hours the Dublin comparison became even stronger. In from Holywood barracks came a battalion of the Royal Innis-killing Fusiliers with machine guns unlimbered. The King's Royal Rifles were ordered to Belfast as fast as possible. Martial law was not declared officially, but authorities clamped on an 8 p. m. curfew on the city, sent out patrols to break up unauthorized gatherings...
...have completely wiped out," boasted a Paraguayan communiqué, "an entire Bolivian battalion which appeared to have been made up of young students from...