Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...barrier is now working. The price of imported cigarettes advanced one shilling on each packet of 20, tobacco three pence an ounce. A great deal of inconvenience is reported by customs officials in dealing with the Ulster boundary customs, owing to the fact that one railway alone crosses the frontier at no less than ten different points...
...Ruhr German apparently has the more pronounced characteristics of Daudet's Monsieur Tartarin who elongated and enlarged his stories to such a point that he believed them himself. For instance an official at Barmen told a newspaper correspondent that the French ran the same train of coke across the frontier by day into Alsace and back again by night, a proceeding reminiscent of long parades on the stage in which a handful of men create a delusion by running around back of the scenery. A little observation proved this an untruth "gross as a mountain", although the official believed...
...dispute over Vilna, ancient capital of Lithuania, has been, to all intents and purposes, settled by the award of that town and a part of Eastern Galicia to Poland by the Council of Ambassadors in Paris. The frontier of Poland is now the same as that laid down by the League of Nations last month-the Council of Ambassadors finding themselves in complete agreement with the decision of the League...
Bulgarian irregulars, opposing the Government of which Stambolisky is Premier, attacked the Yugo-Slavian troops along the Serbian frontier. Two hundred and seventy Bulgarians were killed and a large number of prisoners were taken by the Serbs...
...Call of the Snowy Hispar", a remarkable narrative of exploration and mountaineering on the northern frontier of India, published by Constable & Co., London, for $5.00 is here offered...