Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thundering over Eastern Inner Mongolia while Emperor Hirohito spoke of wool & apples, a squadron of His Majesty's bombing planes made what they called a "reconnaissance." When the bombers returned to their base they had dropped their bombs, mostly in Chaoyang, the gateway to Jehol. This bombing was most unfortunate, Japanese Press spokesmen said, but what else could bombing planes engaged upon a peaceful "reconnaissance" do when wantonly fired upon by Chinese soldiers from the ground? If they fired, the Chinese marksmen brought down no Japanese plane. But the Japanese bombs killed scores of Chinese, wrecked the ordnance factory...
There were plenty of other split pates in Germany last Sunday. In Ketschdorf, near Breslau. a squadron of regular cavalry was called out to capture a band of 150 Communists who had barricaded themselves in an inn after waylaying a truckload of Nazis. There were brawls in Berlin, Cologne, Munich. The situation was serious enough for both Chancellor von Papen and Adolf Hitler to go out to East Neudeck and confer earnestly with President Paul von Hindenburg. First reports were that martial law was about to be declared throughout Germany. Correspondents waited but no announcement appeared. Another story was generally...
Most popular pictures of the year were Forbidden and Attorney for the Defense (Columbia); Five Star Final and The Man Who Played God (First National, Warner); Bad Girl and Delicious (Fox); Tarzan and Grand Hotel (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer); Shanghai Express, and The Smiling Lieutenant (Paramount); The Lost Squadron and Common Law (RKO) ; Frankenstein and Spirit of Notre Dame (Universal). Scarf ace (United Artists) cost most ($800,000) to make...
Club for the expressed purpose of determining the best air route across the Atlantic. But spade-bearded General Italo Balbo, promoter of the conference, was not really looking for information. He was well satisfied with the lane from West Africa to Brazil across which he had led a squadron of ten seaplanes last year. General Balbo had something else on his mind: a proposal that all nations open their airports to international commercial traffic as seaports admit ships of all flags. The delegates were without authority but could direct sentiment...
Died. Admiral Franz von Hipper, 68, commander of the German scouting squadron in the Battle of Jutland; of apoplexy; in Altona-Othmarschen, Prussia. Encountering superior British cruiser forces under Admiral Beatty (who had defeated him in the battle of Dogger Bank), Admiral Hipper outmaneuvered them, inflicted a terrific battering, but was forced to flee when the rest of the British Grand Fleet steamed up. Earl Beatty said last week: "He was a great fighter and a great fellow...