Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little village of Steenstrat, a grave and august group of French, British and Belgian notables unveiled a monument last week to the 39,000 French and British victims of the first German gas attack...
Eight days in advance, said M. Judet, the French army was warned by a German deserter who described the gas cylinders already in place in the German lines, and even produced one of the rudimentary gas masks which had been issued to the German troops. This information was brought to General Ferry of the French army, whose division was just about to move out of the line...
Loud, perennial squawks to the League of Nations about mistreatment of the German minority in Poland, have almost obscured the less-squawked-about fact that there is also a mistreated Polish minority in Germany...
Came last week to the Pole-peopled town of Oppeln in German Silesia, a traveling company of Polish opera singers. Tickets were scalped and the Opera house packed. Sure of tempestuous Polish applause, the beaming, bowing conductor achieved the overture, plunged into the first...
Suddenly little glass balls, hundreds of them, hurtled from the gallery and burst among audience, musicians, actors. Rose a towering, awful stench. Choking and clenching their noses, the Poles fled from the opera house, to be met outside by German Nationalist students who clenched clubs...