Word: troop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week not far from Shanhaikwan, the only city inside the Great Wall of China held by Japan. When nothing came of all this booming, Japanese suggested that the roar of China's guns (possibly firing blanks) was a bluff "to scare off our observers and cover large Chinese troop movements into Jehol...
Purifying Politics. At Tokyo, War Minister Araki flashed off orders to Mukden last week which sent 35 Japanese troop trains thundering down upon Jehol. While far off battles raged-with Japanese victories a foregone conclusion-he could review with warm satisfaction the manner in which since last spring obstacles to "The Way of the Perfect Emperor" have melted away. Obstacle of doubt at home. Obstacle of interfering white folk abroad...
Thirty-five troop trains had bellowed down from Mukden, Japan's Manchurian war base, to the borderlands of Jehol where railways end. Japanese, though they have never held Jehol, claimed it as part of their puppet state "Manchukuo." Last week Japanese were pained by what seemed to them the ignorance of Western editors in printing such headlines as this in Manhattan's Herald Tribune: JEHOL INVADED BY JAPANESE, CHINA LEARNS. On the contrary, Imperial Japan claimed to be "repulsing" from Jehol soldiers who by their mere presence there were clearly bandits and invaders of Manchukuo...
Last week, with the Black Horse Troop in solemn attendance and a group of First Citizens as special guests, the Chicago Historical Society opened to the public its spic & span new $1,000,000 Colonial edifice in Lincoln Park...
They did not have to wait that long. High up through the peaks and gullies of the Atlas Mountains swung the troop train of 14 cars. It had been raining for days. The roadbed was soggy, treacherous. Between Zelboun and Turenne the train jumped the rails, hurtled 250 feet down to the bottom of the rocky ravine...