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...paper Japan had been granted the use of three Tonkin air bases and permission to transport 20,000 troops on the French-owned Indo-China Railway for a backdoor attack on China. It was to demand permission to transport 40,000 more troops and the free use of the great French naval base at Cam-ranh Bay that General Nishihara made his midnight call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-- FRANCE: Eyes West | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...black when superimposed on the shadow of Italy's sharp little foot dancing through North Africa toward the Near East (see p. 27). And the nations' fears, from the mighty U. S. down to the areas well-educated people had never thought twice about until lately-Buna, Tonkin, Antigua-these fears grew to ominous presentiments of things to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ominous Presentiments | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

SUMMIT OF MT. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11: Over the headwall in a hurry Vorlager beer awaited us and doughnuts for Tonkin in our coffee. And what a girl . . . 1 Haug her once, I Haug her twice, and then I Klister. Oh, Boy! Sohm fun! But she says Seal Skin me alive if I try again. Oh, Shuss, the Pole, Bildstein got her first, and I'm left Tiering my hair in vain...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey and On Pro, (SPECIAL WIRE TO THE CRIMSON)S | Title: HU FLUING HUEY, NOW ON PRO, TAKES A FLING AT SKING | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

...stained teeth. The Indo-China wing of the Kelly-Roosevelt Field Museum Expedition, headed by Harold Coolidge left remote Lao Kay early in 1929. With its impressive impedimenta packed on some ninety sturdy little ponies, tended by their mafous or native drivers, the safari toiled over the ridge of Tonkin and Laos. After several weeks of overland travel, the four American scientists embarked on frail native canoes and floated down the waters of the Nam Hu and later the mighty Mekong...

Author: By W. S. T., | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/16/1933 | See Source »

Before the War, Mangin saw service in Senegal, the French Sudan, the Congo (Fashoda) under Colonel Marchand, in Tonkin, West Africa and Morocco, gradually rising to the rank of Brigadier General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mangin | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

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