Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treaty of London, which won Italy to the side of the Allies, promised rectification of the frontier between Tripoli (Italian) and Tunis, in Italy's favor. France cedes Italy two oases and a strip of territory. Italian schools in Tunis will enjoy equal privileges with the French. Italy will receive 600,000 tons of phosphates a year from French African colonies. The railways running from Tunis to Tripoli are to give reciprocal advantages to freight and passengers...
...Times, London, printed the report by J. H. Edgar, inland missionary, of a severe earthquake at Hor Drangu on the China-Tibetan frontier...
Electrification of railways in the South is progressing rapidly. It is expected that the entire main line of the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranéen Railway stretching from Paris to Ventimiglia on the Italian frontier will be electrified next year. It is said that France will have, in fifteen years, the finest railway system in Europe...
This settlement of the grievance between Russia and Great Britain will slacken for a time the tension along the long Asia frontier, reaching from Mesopotamia to Thibet, Burmah and the Malay States. A bugaboo in the shape of a Russo-Japanese alliance fostered by acquiescent China, and drilled by distant Germany, may have enough reality to alarm the farsighted. In the meantime the British naval base at Singapore is being built; the Russo-Japanese danger can be faced when it arises...
...York, we understand, will see one of the biggest and best exhibitions of a certain Americant art that has been displayed so far-an art as completely and typically American as the first Olympic Games were Greek. We refer to bull-dogging, bronco-busting, roping et al. The Frontier may have passed but the sports of the Frontier survive. Sans six-guns, perhaps; sans Deadwood Dick's Last Chance Saloon and a picturesque if sanguinary revolver-practice; but with the spirit of that Frontier alive for all that. Tex Austin is the promoter of the big new rodeo...