Word: outposted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crown Colony of Hong Kong was founded in 1841 as a base for Britain's opium trade with China. It outgrew its sinister origin, to become an outpost of British comfort, respectability and sound business methods. The British merchant princes who owned Hong Kong tended their beautiful, peaked island as carefully as a well-hedged Surrey garden, determinedly insulating it from the turbulent realities of Asia...
...battle pounded on last week, De Lattre flew into the French outpost of Vinhyen (see map) after it was cut off from Hanoi by the Communists. He wanted to see the battle for Hill 101 himself. He watched two French columns go into a counterattack. Fighting for him, on one flank, there was a detachment of Muongs, hill people from the "Country of the Killing Water," where they hunt pigs with bows & arrows. Now, armed with rifles, they were stalking a Red column. As they edged forward under Communist machine-gun fire, clouds of smoke and dust rose ahead...
...China Foreign Office spokesman last week charged French air and ground forces in Indo-China with "provocative attacks on Chinese territory." Warned the Reds: "Our border troops have been instructed to hold the frontier firmly and to deliver counterblows to the provocateurs." In Moncay, the only remaining French-held outpost on China's border, TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs reported an ominous quiet...
River under artillery fire. This side of the river a Communist patrol spotted us and yelled. We ran and we lost one man there. It was only a quarter mile farther on that an outpost of the ist Cavalry Division fired on us. They yelled 'Halt! Who is it?' and I said it was G.I.s. They said, 'One of you come forward...
...Minh's advancing Communists closed a siege ring around Laokay, last French outpost in northern Indo-China. By one of history's ironies, the Vichy French, with Japanese consent, had built up the fortress at Laokay during World War II. Then, in the postwar years; Nationalist Chinese occupation forces had destroyed it. Now, only partly rebuilt, and held by a thin garrison of Foreign Legionnaires, Moroccans and Vietnamese, Laokay looked untenable. It was under Communist mortar fire. Its abandonment and the retreat of its garrison 160 miles down the Red River valley to the Hanoi-Haiphong beachhead seemed...