Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese have made the Peiping-Hankow Railway a fortified zone, with every station an impregnable castle of sandbags and with hundreds of pillboxes between the stations. We guerrillas cannot capture a station without suffering heavy casualties...
...Meanwhile, the Japanese are finding it extremely difficult to penetrate our territory between the railways because we have destroyed all the motor roads and our guerrillas are on guard within ten miles of every railway station. Both armies are now searching for new tactics...
...traveling British peer, went with Lord & Lady Runciman to Prague. He told reporters: "I may stay a month, or it may be three months." The Czechoslovak Government, on discovering that the British Legation staff were turning out in top hats to meet a Purely Private Person at the station, sent their own top hats, and in every observable respect Britain's unofficial mediator became official. His large staff of British Civil Servants released press handouts on crisp sheets headed "From Lord Runciman's Mission." In his first public utterance at Prague the Viscount created a great stir...
Once inside the fortified walls of Canea, the band seized Government buildings, grabbed city officials in their beds. Most of the city's garrison had previously been shipped to summer stations on the mainland. When the remaining troops awoke to find the rebels holding public buildings and the radio station, they bravely barricaded themselves in their barracks...
Tabulated last week, the figures for the period from May 21 to July 1 showed that Berlin's Central Broadcasting Station of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (German Broadcasting Co.) put on the air 922 attacks on the Czechoslovak republic, 194 criticisms of President Eduard Benes or the Prague government, attacked Czechoslovak officials and law courts 172 times, insulted the honor of the Czechoslovak Army 106 times. Henlein party-propaganda broadcasts from German stations during the same period were clocked at 336, the declaration that Communists rule Czechoslovakia...