Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HENDAYE--Converging Insurgent columns rolled down the Mediterranean coast to within 22 miles of the important seaport of Castellon tonight after seizing three main highways and driving Loyalist troops out of the Valdancha mountains. Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Brigades, concentrating their offensive at the southern edge of his nearly 50-mile coastal wedge, moved into the lush "Gardon of Levant...
...executed by having Rightist General Garcia Escamez hotly engage a large Leftist defending force in frontal attack, while Rightist Generals Garcia Valino and Aranda swept around the Leftists' wings, met behind them and then swept on toward the Mediterranean in a 16-mile-wide offensive. Twenty miles of coast, from the outskirts of San Carlos de la Rápita to Peñiscola were in Rightist hands by week...
...Japan's front lines and her supply & troop landing base at Tientsin, 175 miles north. However, military observers thought that continued occupation of Tsinan by the Chinese would be a foolhardy proposition, for Japanese troops could easily land at Tsingtao, Japanese-held port. 200 miles away on the coast and connected with Tsinan by direct rail. However, the very fact that the Chinese forces dared strike in the heart of Japanese territory was evidence of the precarious position Japan's military machine has now reached in central China...
This statement from Eagle Pencil Co. did much to mollify Salvadorans last week. El Salvador nestles between Guatemala and Honduras on the west coast of Central America. Its area is 13,176 square miles and its 1,600,000 population are chiefly Indians & half-castes. It became an independent republic in 1839, on the dissolution into independent republics of the Central American Federation. This had comprised the States of (from north to south) Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. El Salvador, the smallest, most densely populated of the Central American countries, has 80% of her soil under cultivation...
Most troublesome single spot on Western Union's ten lines to Europe is on the Atlantic shelf, 500 feet to 2,000 feet down, off the west coast of Eire. There, halibut-fishers drag heavy iron-weighted nets over the ocean's floor, frequently break cables, sometimes hoist them to the surface, cut them with an ax. To stop this Irish interference, the 2,641-ton, Canadian-manned cable ship. Lord Kelvin, put out last week from Manhattan. Aboard was three-quarters of a mile of nickel steel chain, longest ever forged, to drag a submarine plow Western...