Word: retook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Striking quickly from the eastern side of the Lunghai Corridor, the mobile Chinese captured for a night the walled town of Tancheng, almost 15 miles back of the farthest advanced Japanese line. With their forces at Nanlakow thus threatened, reinforced Japanese troops retook the town, but realized that the wily Chinese by this stroke had succeeded in lengthening what was already for them a too extended southern Shantung battlefront...
Marching By musically relates how first the Austrians and then the Russians took and retook Lemberg in the stirring days of 1915. During one of these swaps a handsome young Austrian (Guy Robertson) is wounded and left behind. Iron enters poor disabled Mr. Robertson's soul when he notices the lecherous glances with which the base Russian colonel is denuding Actress Desiree Tabor, a soprano with whom Mr. Robertson is in love. She is an Austrian countess. Somewhere during this part of the proceedings a file of Muscovites tramp in, begin singing "Light up! Take out your pipe...