Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must continue to raid Loyalist areas because they have been heavily fortified...
...Parisian suburb of Villejuif (Jew City) there is a police laboratory, part of whose job is the dissection of bombs and fireworks. There last week chemists, army officers and police gingerly examined 197 wooden packing cases, taken in a recent raid on branch headquarters of the Csar, a Rightist organization accused of plotting the overthrow of the French Republic (TIME, Dec. 6). The raid had also netted three Hotchkiss machine guns and 71 automatic rifles, but these cases contained hand grenades. The firing lever of each grenade was held down by a band of paper. Since many were damp...
...narrow streets in the working class district. El Caudillo Franco's headquarters, the artillery general staff, the press and propaganda departments and the general staff headquarters are all within 100 yards of Salamanca's great ornate cathedral, one of the finest in Spain. Proof that the Leftist raid on Salamanca was not an isolated incident but represented a complete change in policy came quickly. In another Leftist raid, against blustering Queipo de Llano's private bailiwick, the city of Seville, five tons of bombs were dropped. 24 people including eleven children and three women were killed...
...panda, named Diana after Quentin Young's athletic wife, was two months old, weighed 13 pounds when captured by native farmers in the Samulin Mountains. Arriving in Hankow in the midst of a Japanese air raid, Mrs. Harkness said that she had caught Diana "so that Su Lin might have a real sister to play with." and that she hopes to catch a third, male specimen, so that Su Lin and Diana will have more than a playmate...
...seaman being hauled to a hatchway. Alley's lens catches a Japanese plane diving to attack, while squinting gunners, one trouserless (see cut), try to stem the attack with antiquated 1917 Lewis machine guns. Both cameras show the crew running to emergency posts at the start of the raid, both film the tattered, bloody sailors leaving the ship, peer into the gaping holes in the Panay's armor, sweep over decks strewn with wreckage. Movietone's nine-minute release concentrates on the hardship of the survivors' overland escape to safety. Universal's 23-minute three...