Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mechanized cavalry penetrated 30 miles in less than two hours. One of the brigades on the road passed a given point in six minutes. Best of all from the standpoint of war, in which more battles are lost by ignorance than are won by good generalship, the division commander was in touch the whole time by radio or telephone with every unit of his command...
Most fun were the sham battles which General Nolan directed. That officer occupied the unique post of chief umpire and commander of both sides, to whom he gave general orders leaving the tactics of their execution to the commanders in the field. Officers of every company had strict orders to tell all men under their command exactly what orders were being executed and why, and during every pause in the fight to acquaint their men with the status of the battle. Most exciting inci dents were the routing of a detachment by a hornet's nest, the flight...
...fleet of British bombing planes had swept over their islands bound for Africa. From Egyptian sources it appeared that an armed British sneak toward Lake Tana was indeed being prepared. The Admiralty announced that the Mediterranean fleet would "cruise" for the time being in such fashion as to command the mouth of the Suez Canal. Other British war boats strengthened Gibraltar and Red Sea points. Fifty miles off Italy on the British island naval base of Malta orders from London to erect shelters against air bombs were excitedly obeyed. Some 1,000 troops were ordered to sail from England...
Such "cunning" being the advice and command of Moscow last week, Gazeta Polska's correspondent closed his report on the Comintern by remarking: "It is the most lying institution in a country which has a record for lying...
...fighting coffers are stuffed with every sort of treasure wherewith to buy munitions, including some 10,000,000 gold lire ($2,000,000) paid by Italians after their 1896 defeat at Adowa and hoarded ever since by Ethiopians. That there is plenty of money at the Emperor's command appeared from the fact that huge quantities of munitions have been unloaded and spread over several acres at Djibouti in French Somaliland, terminal of the one & only railway to Addis Ababa. By order of French Premier Pierre Laval these constantly growing acres of munitions continued to be withheld from Ethiopia...