Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army was furious with its Government for removing Tientsin negotiations to Tokyo, and has been trying to sabotage the parleys all along. The Army hopes for a holdout, and a breakdown of the Tokyo negotiations. "Such a development," said pudgy, suave Major General Masaharu Homma, Commander of the Tientsin Garrison, who learned to hate the British as an Oxford student, "can only be welcomed. Then we shall be freed of the Government's promise to respect British interests in Asia. The Tientsin Concession can then finally be closed...
...British bull's-eye is Four Feathers (United Artists-Alexander Korda), memorializing one of the most bullish turns British imperialism ever took: the gaudy slaughter at Omdurman with which Horatio Herbert Kitchener in 1898 avenged the massacre of General Gordon and the British garrison at Khartum, 13 years before. For Four Feathers Hungarian Alexander Korda, the Union Jack's most industrious cinematic flagwaver, sent his director-brother, Zoltan, and practically his entire cast to the Sudan, where they stumbled over some of the actual shells Kitchener had left behind, tottered in temperatures of 120° in the breeze...
...divided into 33 divisions (of 30,000 each, and three cavalry brigades). In South China there are three divisions, in Central China 14, in North China 16. This imposing array of warriors and war machines, however, is locked tight to its present conquered territory, engaged solely in guarding its garrison posts and communication lines. Against them Chinese forces in the last six months have won back more towns and outposts than they have lost. Without sending more men to China, the Chinese argue, the Japanese cannot marshal at any one point the necessary strength for a successful offensive. Proof that...
...areas. Each of the 100 regiments snipes off ten Japanese soldiers daily, thus giving a total of 1,000 Japanese deaths daily, or 365,000 yearly, from guerrilla warfare alone. The General claimed that a well-established guerrilla base could tie up 50,000 Japanese in police and garrison duty...
...administration of customs, railroads, and foreign relations. Internally Danzig is autonomous. Thus the treaties which gave Poland an outlet to the sea through Danzig prohibit Polish military occupation of that outlet. On the Westerplatte, a low bank at the entrance to Danzig Harbor, however, is generally harbored a small garrison of Polish troops which guards a Polish ammunition warehouse. Behind those troops is an incident of 1920, when German Communist dock workers held up a shipment of arms to Poland, then fighting for its life against Bolshevik Russia. It was then that Poland saw the light and began to plan...