Word: riflemen
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...visiting riflemen from Hartford are C.W. Loubin, captain; H.J. Doolittle, W.J. Eddy, W. Hall, E.H. Lawton, and L.H. Mitcnell...
...strengthen police reserves. President Hippolito, whose insistence on living in his little cigar store apartment is only one mark of his almost phobic dislike of ostentation, was made to drive to and from the Executive offices, the center of a convoy of eight hooting, speeding motor cars, bristling with riflemen. Second night of the scare, 5,000 Irigoyen followers, who love their elderly President so much that they have given up all party names, call themselves Personalistas Irigoyenistas, paraded through the streets. Just what they were parading for few seemed to know. Told to shout, they shouted Viva Irigoyen! Viva...
...were worn, rubbed to an oily, deep brown. Across their backs were stretched bandoleers full of sharp-nosed cartridges. Thousands of rounds of ammunition lay in neat cases around them. To bivouac the force, peaked, tan canvas service tents were thrown up along orderly streets. To many of the riflemen tenting was new. No novelty was it for 1,000 of the force, members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, who had come from posts as far as Panama, China, the Philippines...
...year. The few U. S. correspondents "on the spot" at Harbin and Mukden, last week, heard that Soviet planes were dropping occasional bombs along the Siberian-Manchurian frontier, 400 miles away, and also that six armored Russian trains were drawn up athwart the frontier city of Manchuli. When Chinese riflemen sniped at the Russian planes, a few pieces of Soviet field artillery were unlimbered and warning shells whined across the border, to fall (intentionally) into empty fields...
...three columns. Right and left closed in on Jiminez like a nutcracker, while the main column under General Almazan himself pressed straight forward. It was impossible to see. A thousand crashes which left the eardrums ringing, and the darkness burst into points of flame. Artillery, machine gunners and riflemen banged away at the opposing flashes. The rebels, with three lines of trenches, held out bravely to the dawn and through the heat of the ensuing...