Word: mud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...date the U. S. public has seen a good many pictures of war-order planes lined up on fields, and shrouded bomber fuselages being loaded on freighters or falling into harbor mud. But aside from aircraft it has seen little concrete evidence of war orders. Last week (see cut) 478 Studebaker trucks on a Staten Island dock in New York Harbor readied for shipment to the Allied Armies, provided the first good view of nonplane war orders in the flesh...
...Japanese soldiers were caked in mud, chest high; their beards were bristling with two weeks' growth; and they were ravenously hungry. The peasants, in fleeing before the approach of the Japanese, had taken their pigs, cows, grain and other food with them into the hills where the Japanese could not follow. All through the valley, tiny Japanese garrisons were mired in mud, unable to communicate with one another, and slowly starving. When off duty, simple soldiers would sneak out of their garrison posts in twos and threes and rove the countryside looking for abandoned chickens and eggs-many were...
...Male villagers were stripped naked, lashed to carts, and driven forward by the Imperial Army as beasts of burden. Japanese horses and mules were beaten to death in the mud; and on any road and all the hills of the valley, one can see the carcasses of their animals rotting and the bones of their horses whitening in the sun. The Chinese peasants who were impressed to take their places were driven forward with the same pitiless fury until they collapsed, died, or were driven...
Dressed as a field marshal, his ungloved hands blue with cold, his boots splashed, King George, unflagging, visited airdromes and pillboxes, reviewed regiments, watched anti-aircraft rangefinders work, trenches being dug, marched in places through ankle-deep mud. As well as with soldiers, he chatted with newsmen, who were permitted to accompany him in rotating groups of five. To oldtime Correspondent Sir Philip Gibbs, he said: "I suppose you feel as I do that this war is a continuation of the last...
...Finally we came upon another officer in a clearing with 30-odd Moors. Though we had gone only two miles, it had taken us half an hour because of the ankle-deep mud in the valleys and the spongy ground in the hills...