Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...road-building equipment, a communications company with water trucks, two mopping-up units, support from the Air Force, using mostly Breda combat bombers, and from reserves, bringing total strength to about 250,000. This well-balanced striking force drove first for Salûm, five miles across the border...
...troops to garrison them, and granted immediate landing of a limited number of soldiers at Haiphong. But the agreement did not come soon enough to satisfy the fire-eating leaders of Japan's South China Army. Before Major General Nishihara could communicate with them, they had crossed the border at Dong Dang, engaged in a bloody, two-hour midnight skirmish with the French defenders. Next morning Tokyo announced the surrender of the French, and the Japanese marched triumphantly on, while their Foreign Office virtuously announced that the clash "was entirely due to misunderstanding on the part of French Indo...
...Army Air Corps is going further, readying plans for fields at Point Barrow (where Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed), at Nome and probably another near the Canadian border, against the possibility of an air invasion across the top of the world. Advance fields will dot the Seward peninsula back of Nome, the lower Yukon Valley back of Bethel and the tundra south of Point Barrow. This summer the U. S. Army landed at Anchorage the first big contingent of troops the territory had seen in 40 years. The only other sizable garrison in Alaska consists of some...
...spent all my money trying to get back to Norway, I decided to return to France, Crane-Baker related last night. "The only way was through Germany. I shook in my boots all the way through on the train, but I got to Rome safely and crossed the border into France. Two days later Italy declared...
...western border of the Argentine Republic, next to Chile, lies the province of La Rioja (pop. 110,000). Fortnight ago La Rioja's legislature passed a bill setting up a strict press censorship. It banned publication of anything which the chief of provincial police may consider "subversive, seditious, obscene, immoral," or which "lowers, attacks or demerits the majesty of justice." Offending editors, publishers, distributors, even newsboys may be fined or jailed, and the law applies not only to La Rioja's own press, but to papers brought in from outside...