Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eight native soldiers killed their Italian officer in Libya, escaped over the border to Tunisia, surrendered to the French...
Near Dolo on the Italian Somaliland border of southern Ethiopia, a Swedish Red Cross unit was operating with the tribesmen of energetic Ras Desta Demtu, the "good" son-in-law of Haile Selassie. Italian aviators knew they were there, for only that morning copies of // Messaggero of Rome reached Stockholm, containing a paragraph from Italian Somaliland saying that Italian aviators flying over the southern front had seen people on the ground near hospital tents waving Swedish flags to call attention to their position. Yet last week a squadron of Italian planes circled over the Ethiopian camp to which the Swedish...
Rupture of a blood vessel cause the death of Newell Bent, Jr.'33 last Sunday on the slope of Mt. Aconcagua, located on the border of Chile and Argentine, according to word received yesterday...
...Russia as "Stalin's Revenge." Commissar Grigoriy Prokofiev of the Ogpu Industrial Section, who attends to such matters as having Russian engineers, after a factory breakdown, "shot for sabotage." Commissar Terenty Deribas of the Ogpu Far East Section, perhaps its most romantic branch. In Mongolia and other nomadic border lands the natives are under an impression, perhaps mistaken, that a local chieftain whom the Ogpu considers superfluous often dies from the prick of a poisoned nail in his saddle. Commissar Stanislas Redens of the Ogpu Moscow Section. Commissar Leonid Zakovsky of the Ogpu Leningrad Section. Vsevolod Balitsky...
NOWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD- Gordon Enders with Edward Anthony- Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50). Interesting account of an enterprising U. S. aviator who grew up on the border of Tibet at the time of the Younghusband expedition, became an intimate adviser of the Panchen Lama. The book is filled with plausible explanations of international intrigue over Tibet, contains 64 unusual photographs. THROUGH FORBIDDEN TIBET-Harrison Forman - Longmans, Green ($3.50). More romantic record of the journey of a young U. S. airplane salesman in China who was attracted to Tibet by stories of a mountain higher than Everest, and by accounts...