Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provocation: Further bloody border skirmishes in Africa between intrepid Abyssinians and cocky Italian colonial troops (TIME...
London, Feb. 17--Faced by Premier Mussolini's mobilization of 30,000 troops and Italy's demand for indemnity and apology for border incidents, the Abysinian government tonight evidently was determined to pursue a policy of conciliation coupled with preparedness...
Paris--France considers latest Italian-Abyssinia border clash as "local incident"; awaits League Council stand before taking formal position of war threat...
...when Artist Bingham was State Treasurer of Missouri, the Union Troops on the border were commanded by Brigadier-General Thomas Ewing, lawyer and abolitionist from Ohio. To clear the Kansas-Missouri border of armed gangs that infested the territory, General Ewing issued Order No. 11, declaring martial law and decreeing the complete evacuation within 15 days of the population of the border counties. All the hardships that follow any mass emigration ensued. Many of the ousted settlers were friends of Artist Bingham who swore to make General Ewing "forever infamous...
...typhus broke out in Serbia. In six months it killed 150,000 Serbs, 30,000 Austrian prisoners. Spreading to Russia, it infected 25,000,000 people, killed 3,000,000. Hindenburg feared to move German troops from the infected Russian border to the Western front...