Word: troop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capture of Tsinan would sever the link between Japan's front lines and her supply & troop landing base at Tientsin, 175 miles north. However, military observers thought that continued occupation of Tsinan by the Chinese would be a foolhardy proposition, for Japanese troops could easily land at Tsingtao, Japanese-held port. 200 miles away on the coast and connected with Tsinan by direct rail. However, the very fact that the Chinese forces dared strike in the heart of Japanese territory was evidence of the precarious position Japan's military machine has now reached in central China...
...second of no less than 20 25,000-ton ships planned for Kraft durch Fretide-no small project since there are now only about two dozen ships in the world which are as big. If built they will give Germany a handsome fleet of naval auxiliaries and troop ships...
...warnings to Adolf Hitler, and then Ribbentrop with Chamberlain and Halifax joined the ladies. Later in the day Der Führer. who was holding his secret Privy Council on Foreign Affairs in continuous session at Berlin as German military radio flashed moment-by-moment technical details of the troop movements, was waited upon by the British & French Ambassadors with identical, very sharply-worded protests. But they were not accompanied by anyone representing Russia, or the U. S., or Italy, or Japan. An agonizing interval of many hours elapsed before incredulous official London fully believed the German occupation of Austria...
Trotsky and his troop, of whom the 21 are only samples, originally began their machinations against Lenin and are implicated in the infliction of a bullet wound upon the founder of the Soviet Union in 1919 which contributed to his death in 1924. Trotsky was a spy in the pay of Germany from 1921 on, notwithstanding that he had just won the civil war for the Reds and continued until 1925 as Commissar of the Red Army, which he created. In more recent times Yagoda, acting under orders from Trotsky, caused three of Russia's most eminent physicians...
...strictly accurate. Marines frequently resort to horseback to cover the 2OO-square-mile ammunition depot at Hawthorne, Nev., but the Peking outfit was the only regularly organized troop...