Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jose Gonzalo Escobar, the Mexican rebel leader who has retreated with Fabian cunning half the length of Mexico, made a stand last week at Jiminez. It resulted in what Minister of War Plutarco Elias Calles called "the bloodiest hour in Mexican history...
...very well are such confident, prophetic words, but at present the Mukden Arsenal is working overtime to produce enough artillery, rifles and ammunition for the latest Chinese civil war. So perfect and efficient are copies of the famed French "75" field gun now made in Mukden, that if ever the arsenal is set to copying motor cars it may prove difficult to tell a "Baby Dragon" from an "Austin Seven." Similarly, tractors are made in Soviet Russia so exactly like those produced by Henry Ford- even to the name plate - that simple peasants to whom they are sold never know...
...recent resignation of Marshal Feng from the post of Nationalist War Minister (TIME, April 8), strengthened the rebels' confidence that he would aid them against the Government; but as battle lines were drawn, last fortnight, Feng remained steadfast, and when definite confirmation of this reached Hankow, last week, the house of cards collapsed. Despatches indicated that Master Mind Chiang had kept Marshal Feng's allegiance by promising that he and his peculiar Private Army shall be allowed to occupy and police the rich Chinese province of Shantung. Though the rebels were utterly routed at Hankow on the north...
...Wallace drifted from newsboy to sea-cook and back again. He worked for a milkman, a florist, a printer, a mason; turned up in the Army while still in his 'teens. In South Africa he resigned from the military in favor of newspaper work, and during the Boer War coded many a scoop to his London paper, much to Kitchener's embarrassment and the censor's discomfiture. The war over, Wallace was appointed editor of the Transvaal's largest newspaper, and on the proceeds he played with notorious bulls and bears of the Johannesburg market...
...investment. In addition to its extra-railroad activities, Canadian Pacific has asked the Dominion Parliament for authority to construct 1,200 miles of branch lines and expects to build some 465 miles during the present year. Expansion plans centre around the Saskatchewan district and may result in a "war" with Canadian National which has considered the Saskatchewan territory as particularly its own. Should hostilities result, the Canadian Pacific has assets of about one and a quarter billion dollars...