Word: moving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overstretched, underprotected communi cation lines, is strung out three times as long as the Western Front during the World War. Behind these front lines Chinese guerrillas range with murderous freedom. In Shansi Province, "occupied" by Japanese for four months, 28 divisions of the Chinese Communist 8th Route Army move about organizing the peasants into a Communistic province within a province. At Peking, Chinese soldiers last week attacked the power house outside the city walls. In Shanghai, frequent firing is still heard as Chinese bands raid the outskirts. In its year in the field, the self-styled invincible Japanese Army...
...Britain and France want any plan for transplanting refugees to be carried out by existing League of Nations bodies. The U. S., backed by nonLeague Latin American nations, feels that since the conference's first move will have to be negotiation with League-hating Germany for removal of her Jewish and anti-Nazi population, a body completely removed from League influence would have more chance of success...
...commanded by French officers, had sailed across and occupied the islands for France. Ever since 1886, when France established a protectorate over the Indo-China Kingdom of Annam, France has claimed the Paracels because they formerly came under the sovereignty of Annam. Until last week, however, she made no move to occupy them...
...billion and a quarter in silver is approximately one million 1,000-oz. bars, each ounce worth $1.29 at the Government's statutory price, or 43? on the metal market. A thousand ounces is 62½ lb. To move a million such bars, a fleet of trucks was needed, and last week Mrs. Ross awarded her contract to Peter James Malley Jr., 38, of Manhattan, son and grandson of Irish truckers, who bid her 15? per bar for the 50-mile haul. Mr. Malley hauls most of New York City's whiskey, also dyes and chemicals. He figures...
...Bersaglieri are famed for their ability to move for hours at a steady trot. However, no nimble-footed sharpshooter was brash enough to forge ahead and when the startled populace at Faenza rushed into the streets to welcome Il Duce, he was still in the lead. Congratulating the Bersaglieri on their condition, he gave their commander 3,000 lire ($157) to buy them special mess kits...