Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wester Wemyss, 69, onetime (1917-19) First Sea Lord of Britain; of uremia; in Cannes, France. Commander of the Second Battle Squadron in the Mediterranean, he distinguished himself during the War for the successful landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bland of countenance, monocle in eye, he (with Marshal Foch, General Weygand, Rear Admiral George Hope) presented the Armistice ultimatum to the Germans in 1918. After the War he formally received the German fleet at Scapa Flow...
From South China the Canton Government screamed that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek of Nanking had sold out to Japan, bartering promises of a pro-Japanese State in North China for peace. Under banners blazoned RECOVER OUR MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS two divisions went north from Canton including two brigades of the famed 19th Route Army, heroes of the defense of Shanghai last year...
Colonel Dana T. Gallup, commanding the 110th Cavalry, Massachusetts National Guard, will marshal the various units into the church...
...Stadium Exercises will begin at 5.30 o'clock on Wednesday, June 20, with the Parade of Graduates, led by the Chief Marshal of the Class of 1908, John Richardson of Boston. This is to be followed by the Ivy Oration, delivered by S. H. Stackpole '33. The oration will set the tone of the Exercises which, in contrast to the serious nature of Commencement, is intended to be somewhat light and frivolous...
...extent of Japanese operations in Chinese territory are being left entirely to the discretion of Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto as commander of the Japanese forces in the field. . . . Continued Chinese counter-attacks are causing the Kwantung Army to lose patience." Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto lost no time in making a characteristic statement from his headquarters at Changchun: "If the Chinese abandon their challenging attitude and withdraw . . . the Japanese will immediately return to the Great Wall and devote their energies to maintenance of peace . . . but if the Chinese continue their provocations, the Japanese will be compelled to continue the present . . . operations...