Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French and British diplomats fenced with Italy last week on the problem of withdrawal of foreign volunteers in Spain (see above), French and British staff officers had deliberated a situation even more critical in the Balearic Islands. Secret agents at Palma, Majorca had noted unusual activity among the Rightist garrison and the 20,000 Italian troops quartered there, reported that an attempt was about to be made to seize the Leftist island of Minorca. The British and French have been thick in the western Mediterranean ever since the Spanish civil war began, and the New York Times was authority...
...morally invalid because exacted under duress, that the Imperial Japanese Government last week issued the following urbane and reasoned 550 word official statement which would not deceive a Vermont woodchuck or a Georgia possum: "The present Sino-Japanese affair originated in an unwarranted attack by Chinese forces on Japanese garrison troops legitimately stationed in North China under rights clearly recognized by treaty...
Only 18 miles southwest of beleaguered Gijón another siege was ending its 14th month, but in this case the roles were reversed. At Oviedo, once a city of 70,000 people, a Rightist garrison was still holding out against a circling force of Asturian miners who have sworn to capture and kill Oviedo's commander, General Miguel Aranda "if we have to get him over the dead bodies of our own children...
Just before the beginning of the present war Miguel Aranda was in Madrid but he hustled back to Oviedo on orders from General Franco, took over the garrison of 2,000 men and seized the city. Ruthless Miguel Aranda may be, an able officer he certainly is. Spurred on by personal hatred for Aranda, forces of 8,000 and 10,000 men have besieged Oviedo, furrowing its streets and battering its houses with as many as 3,000 shells a day-while the Asturians still had munitions. For many weeks the city and its garrison were entirely cut off, every...
...murdered early this month, whereupon Japanese Admiral Hasegawa promptly demanded indemnity and the withdrawal of Chinese troops to a distance of 20 miles from the International Settlement. When the Chinese expressed distaste at being ordered out of their own country, the Japanese piled sailors ashore to reinforce their permanent garrison and the fighting began...