Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...career had little doubt that he was far less interested in a White Russian haven than he was in the money he was getting from Japan. Grandson of a Mongolian woman and onetime Captain in the Russian Imperial Army, he first attracted outside attention in 1918 by his guerrilla warfare in Siberia at the head of a band of Cossacks against the newborn Soviet regime. England. France and Japan supported him for a while, later he drew his pay from Japan alone. Once, with 16 men. he drove a large Soviet force out of the stronghold of Manchuli in Northern...
Prior to the Morrow truce this incontestable power was manifested in Mexico by demonstrations which took the form of guerrilla warfare between Mexican troops and persons who shouted as their battle cry "Long live Christ the King!" (TIME, July...
...Guerrilla warfare between British garrisons on the northwest frontier and bellicose Pathan tribesmen, begun when a band of Afridi ambuscaded a party of Indian cavalry in the orchards outside Peshawar (TIME, Aug. 18), continued last week. Although Royal Air Force bombers peppered the tribesmen with as many as 50 tons of bombs in a single day, Pesha- war continued surrounded by hostile besiegers. Some observers began to doubt the efficacy of the R. A. F.'s aerial attack. One rumor was that the Afridi left their capes and turbans lying on the ground when they heard the planes coming over...
...island Republic of Haiti is mountainous, suited to guerrilla revolutions. It is tropical, suited to a lazy, roistering populace. Towering on bold Cap Haitien, the citadel La Ferrière (built under the lash of black King Henri Christophe, who reigned from 1811 to 1820) stands sole witness to the potentialities of organized, industrious Haiti citizens. Since the time of King Christophe, especially since 1915 when the U. S. assumed responsibility for quelling wholesale murders in Haiti, nothing, not even U. S. Marines, has made the Haitians a nation worthy of La Ferrière. Last year President Hoover thought...
Reconstruction in Germany after the War is the subject of this broad-focused novel; as in our own Reconstruction, villainy, graft, murder, vice, hysteria saturate the atmosphere. The central figures of the story inhabit a tenement in a German city; the War whirls them apart; in the guerrilla warfare of peace they are blown together again, but now some are big businessmen, others are professionally criminals, pimps, dope-sellers; some are Communists; the women are shrunken harridans or plumped-up prostitutes. It is a civilization fighting the throes of corruption : normal human feelings, human values are worthless, no longer existent...