Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after the firing of 180 rounds, in barely missing the towing plane of Lieut. William T. Atkinson, although the target trailed 2100 ft. behind it. Said he, after towing his target ten times across the firing area, "We could see the shells burst high to the right and in front of our plane." Said another flight lieutenant: "We're used to that...
Fortune apparently has begun to frown on the rebel chieftain Abd-el-Krim. A fortnight ago TIME, Aug. 24) the Spaniards and the French drove back his western front. Last week the French drove back his southern front. All through the Taza sector the Riffs were driven back and the French in three days claimed the recovery of all the territory Abd-el-Krim had taken in three months...
...maneuver. There are in the neighborhood of 100,000 French troops now in Morocco, of which 20,000 or 25,000 took part in the action. Their overweening numbers made resistance futile. Consequently they had few losses. Two flanking movements starting from opposite ends of a 45-kilometer front induced the Riffians to flee, leaving the Tsoul tribe alone to oppose the French. The Tsouls went over to the Riffs when the French retreated in July. Last week with the situation reversed they "turned faithful" again and came in asking mercy to the French strongholds. The Branes, another stronger tribe...
...decisive victory before the winter rain sets in, and then they must wait until April for fair days. This week's successes place them in a strong position for organizing themselves to hold their present territory over the winter. The Morocco-Algerian railway is now well behind the front and not subject to raids as it has been in the past few weeks with the Riff lines only six miles away at some points...
...determining what tariff is fair and equable. It involves the entire situation in China. China is a bundle of conflicting forces none of which is dominant. In the first place there is the Peking Government, nominally ruling the country but actually hardly more than painted drop screen in front of affairs. The Peking Government is extraordinarily weak. In South China its power is purely nominal. The great body of the people, 95% or more is illiterate and grossly ignorant, some 1,000,000 of its 325,000,000 population are under arms in the control of the several tuchuns...