Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Time was when such news would have been the signal for a general alarm. Incidents like the burning of Smyrna or the Corfu assassinations monopolized the front pages of the large journals for days, while editorial Cassandras warned their readers that they were standing upon the brink of another world conflict...
Spanish operations against the Riffs became notably spectacular when several Spanish battalions made a dash in motor trucks southeastward from Ajdir, covered some 20 miles across the plain, and established themselves at Syan on the east Moroccan front. Thus they linked up with their allies the French forces, which have advanced into that region from Kifane, and apparently the Spanish thrust came as a complete surprise to both French and Riffians. If the move is consolidated into a strong series of military positions, it may well forestill the possibility of French forces attempting to operate in the so-called Spanish...
...rains fell all along the French front, the forces of le Maréchal Pétain took up impregnable positions fanning out toward the Mediterranean from Kifane to a distance of some 20 miles. At the extreme northeast tip of the fan, French troops were reported to be in contact near Syan with a Spanish force (see SPAIN) which had advanced thither from Ajdir...
...objectives. The whole campaign which has been evolving recently in the Kifane sector is now declared to be a model for future French tactics in African warfare, and Pétain is credited by observers with having employed unwieldly modern military equipment to the best possible advantage on a front where all modern methods of transportation by rail or water are nonexistent...
...plumbing trade, that much he knew. Was such cock-loftiness even American? Did it not endanger the very principles of equality upon which the nation was founded? For a long time he brooded on this question, went down into his cellar, wrote a sign, affixed it to his front window. "To Let," he stated, adding, in huge black letters: "NEGROES ONLY...