Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CINCUS-designate Bloch, born to Czechoslovakian immigrant parents in Woodbury, Ky., is a sombre tight-lipped officer who has been cited for meritorious service in two wars, for rescuing Spaniards from Admiral Cervera's burning squadron off Santiago in 1898 and for commanding the naval transport Plattsburg 20 years later. Gobs who wondered whether CINCUS Bloch would be as stern a disciplinarian as CINCUS Hepburn were last week enlightened by his sister, Mrs. Stella Bloch of Bowling Green, Ky.: "He is sensitive, studious, generous to a fault but always ready to fight when teased...
Such a question can only be answered by a show of naked force. The French Cabinet last week answered it by ordering So first line French war planes to leave southern France, squadron after squadron, beginning October 27, for extensive maneuvers over all French possessions in Africa, including the Sahara Desert and French Somaliland as well as North Africa. After these war birds of Paris and the moderate Left have scared the Fascist daylights out of as much of French Africa as possible, the most potent bombers will fly on to impress Madagascar and finally French Indo-China...
...screeched the air raid warning. Japan's bombers had of course taken off from Shanghai, and 13 young Chinese airmen, each piloting a U. S.-built Curtiss-Hawk, whirred up and away into the northwest to meet the invaders. Just as the Chinese disappeared, the first Japanese air squadron came over from the opposite direction, the southeast, flying two miles up, a faintly buzzing swarm of about 40 grey ships in a dazzling blue sky. Faster than anyone could think three things happened. The Japanese power-dived upon Nanking, Chinese anti-aircraft guns on the hills around the capital...
...Embassy-after which natives of Nanking again beamed at sight of the Stars and Stripes wherever shown, made no more insulting noises or gestures. After inspecting Nanking, military experts opined that unskillfully constructed dugouts which collapsed of themselves had killed about as many Chinese as any one squadron of Japanese bombers...
...Asiatic Fleet of some 40 outmoded destroyers, auxiliaries and spoon-shallow river gunboats; 2) the fourth U. S. Marines, a regiment of 1,050 men, which were reinforced from Manila by week's end; 3) British Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little commanding Britain's China Squadron; 4) nine hundred fifty British regulars, and a battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers hastily ferried over from Hong Kong; 5) about 1,000 small sallow French Indo-Chinese and Annamese soldiers; 6) small detachment of Italian Fascists; 7) the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, a brigade of mixed infantry and cavalry consisting principally...