Word: istria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Night Watch. Billie Dove takes the stand in defense of her husband, Paul Lukas, murder suspect and captain of a French battleship. Who killed Nicholas Soussanin, young lieutenant found dead on board the cruiser by the Admiralty committee that came to congratulate the Captain for sinking the Istria? Out of Billie Dove's testimony the story flows in retake with dignity and pictorial effectiveness - the night the War began when the officers' wives came on board for dinner and Billie Dove, delayed by the importunities of a onetime suitor, one of the officers, was caught on board...
...territories are united under our flag. The whole of Istria, with Gorizia, Gradisca and Trieste as far as the River Isonzo, the city and Province of Zara, the island of Cherso, Lussin Grande and Lus-sin Piccolo, Lagosta and Pelagosa, as well as southeastern Slavonia, are now in Italian hands. Northern Corinthia and Styria are now Austrian. Northern Belanja and the Province of Mur are now Hungarian. The Eastern Banat is now Rumanian. The Provinces of Vidin and Stredac are now Bulgarian. Scutari in Northern Albania is now Albanian...
...Italy, Sussak and Porto Barros to Yugo-Slavia, with the proviso that both places are attached to Fiume for 99 years; the Free State to be governed by a mixed supreme government composed of delegates from Italy, Yugo-Slavia and Fiume. Last Week Mussolini began to mass troops in Istria, intending no doubt to scare the Belgrade Government...