Word: frei
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strassen frei, Fenster zu!! Clear the streets! Close the windows!" bellowed imperious policemen patrolling the battle-scarred districts in armored cars. After nearly 50 policemen had been wounded they warned that anyone appearing at an open window would be shot. Despite the warning, curiosity was too much for three old women and for Charles Eray Mackay, a newsgatherer from New Zealand. Reporter Mackay ventured out on the street, the old women out on their balconies. All four were shot dead by the watchful police...
True to the schwars-weiss-rot (black, white, red?colors of the Empire) were the Nationalists (Monarchists), Frei-heitspartei (Freedom Party, extreme Monarchists) and several smaller parties...
...from the Diplomatic Corps at Peking on the bandit incident of last May.* The note was signed by the U. S., Great Britain, France, Japan, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba. The imposing document was delivered at the Chinese Foreign Office by Senhor Frei tas, Portuguese Minister to China and doyen of the Diplomatic Corps at Peking. It is difficult to see how the Powers can possibly expect Dr. Koo to take any satisfactory action on the note, because the country is actually in the hands of the Tuchuns ?War Lords?...