Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...I.R.A. had other arms and ammunition. Two nights after Thomas Williams' hanging, gunmen fired on a police patrol car in Belfast, missed the police but wounded a child bystander and a man. At Belleek and Randalstown and Culloville, rifles cracked, and bombs burst...
Until he left Shanghai last September, Alcott's daily newscasts over Station XMHA were for four years the sharpest thorn in the side of Axis propagandists. Early marked by Axis gunmen and terrorists, he packed his tough 220 Ib. in a bullet-proof vest, bought a .45 and carried on. During the last two years he observed the handiwork of Tokyo's German advisers in coordinating stations in Manchukuo, Nanking and Shanghai with Tokyo's Government-operated Station JOAK and its Domei News Agency line of talk. Latest and ugliest trend in that talk: that the Japanese...
...victims that it would do the police no good to issue a radio alarm because he carried a portable receiving set. In Richmond a gunman held up a filling station, escaped after phoning his wife: "I'll be home to supper in a few minutes." In Chicago two gunmen robbed a bartender and four tavern customers of $51.55, then served drinks to the crowd, did a specialty dance, loaded their car with whiskey, wine and beer, passed out $1 bills, and departed...
...foreigners living along the Whangpoo in the snug, smug plutocracy of the International Settlement and the more raffish French Concession. Since the Japanese took over the Chinese city in 1937, the Settlement has been an island in a sea of intrigue and guerrilla warfare. Round it have prowled gunmen, tough, graft-hungry Japanese soldiers, the gangster bravos and police of the puppet Nanking Government...
...Yangtze valley. To day both Shanghais are dead-and within the putrefaction of its mist-shrouded cadaver the maggots of destruction worm silently about. Cabarets, with their white slaves, adventurers, opium-runners and hatchetmen, still operate in Shanghai; but ringed about with Japanese bayonets, spies, terrorized by free-firing gunmen, they have lost their glamor. Most efficient of the operating agencies in this Oriental caricature of Hell is the Japanese Special Service Section; under its jurisdiction is notorious No. 76 Jessfield Road where those whom the Japanese Empire has reason to fear or dislike are brought. Only rumor marks their...