Word: troopship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farewell Again (London Film) expertly applies the Grand Hotel idea to a British troopship. The 23rd Royal Lancers, homeward bound on H. M. S. Somersetshire after five years in India, are informed by wireless that they are to have but six hours ashore in Southampton, must then push off again for patrol duty in the Near East (''Sorry men, but if we're going to own an empire, we've got to pay for it"). Well-managed cameras bustle about sketching, vignetting, peering into lives affected poignantly, happily, comically, by this upsetting circumstance, bring each little...
...three small bombs came crashing down on the ship, shell-shocking three passengers, wounding six of the crew, killing one, damaging hull and deck. Shanghai's Mayor 0. K. Yui promptly admitted Chinese responsibility, promised fullest redress: four bombers had mistaken the liner for a Japanese troopship. Washington immediately cabled Ambassador Johnson to make a vehement protest...
...high good humor the Moroccan rebels launched their invasion of Spain proper. A troopship loaded with Legionnaires put in at Algeciras near Gibraltar. A rebel torpedo boat shelled the undecided garrison at La Linea, which thereupon joined the revolt. But when La Linea citizens, watching black Moorish troops march into barracks, refused to disperse, the Moors mowed them down with machine guns, blasted them with hand grenades, left La Linea's streets littered with dead. In thousands of commandeered cars, the rebels pushed north, fanning out along the railroads leading toward Madrid...
With great pride last week the War Office pointed to all the home comforts of its latest troopship, H. M. S. Dilwara. Intended for ferrying men to India and Egypt, it is completely air-conditioned, contains a cinema and game room and as a special attraction a gaudy nursery for the children of married soldiers. All the hobby horses carry the blanket insignia of famed Indian cavalry regiments...
...Togo was captain in an up-&-coming navy. In the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) it was Togo who fired the salvo that was Japan's declaration of war. But the first incident that got him international headlines was not pretty. He halted a Chinese troopship, ordered the soldiers to take to the boats, sank the ship when they refused, made no attempt to rescue them. At the Battle of the Yalu, where the Chinese fleet was shattered, Captain Togo won his share of glory, brought his ship through without a single casualty. Before the war was over...