Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evidently cut some Japanese supply lines. The Chinese guerrillas have to keep on the move, waging hectic hit-and-run warfare, and messages from their commanders last week were reaching Nanking, the Chinese Capital, as much as a fortnight late. As the chief hit-and-run generals, emerged "Red Napoleon" Chu Teh and "100 Victories" Wei Li-huang. They were harassing the Japanese shoulder to shoulder last week, although four years ago the Chinese Government was offering $100,000 for the "Red Napoleon" alive or $80,000 for him dead; and the "100 Victories" (more or less) which earned General...
Typical of belated but glorious news received by Chinese Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at Nanking last week was this telegram from Red Napoleon Chu: "First the left flank of our army began an attack against Ningwu, which was held by the Japanese and is situated 30 miles west of the important Great Wall pass of Yenmenkwan. After besieging the city for four days we finally recaptured it, taking 2,000 Japanese prisoners...
...red-bereted Carlist militiamen were marching into Gijón's streets under hundreds of white flags of surrender, most of them rudely made from bed sheets. Regardless of their political opinions, crowds on the streets cheered with enthusiasm. For them Gijón's surrender meant an end of bombs and shellfire, most of all it meant food. Even before the fall of Bilbao, Generalissimo Franco discovered that food, of which his part of Spain has plenty, was the best Rightist propaganda he could use. So last week trucks loaded with bread, sausages, corn and rice started...
...small pair of pliers to the effect that both Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini see no difference between a "volunteer" who is fighting as a soldier and one who is fighting as a propagandist-i.e., Der Führer and Il Duce want what they call "the Red Agents of Moscow" also withdrawn from Spain...
Died. Colonel Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, 58, senior partner of G.M.-P. Murphy & Co., World War U. S. Red Cross Commissioner and lieutenant colonel in the A.E.F.; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1921 Grayson Murphy laid the foundation of his financial reputation by skillfully reorganizing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Last year a committee he headed salvaged for debenture holders what little there was to be salvaged from the Kreuger & Toll disaster. Little known outside of Wall Street, Grayson Murphy was not only a Republican who shot grouse in Scotland, but in 1928 a Liberal (meaning wet) Republican...