Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago when Spain was Cuba's tyrant. Some 2,000 insurrectos were hiding out in the hills at war with the regime of Dictator Gerardo Machado. They were mostly well-horsed, wellarmed, uniformed in blue denim. They fed at any sympathetic farmhouse. In guerrilla bands they were able to swoop on a village, overpower the Rural Guard, canter off to the hills with arms, food, money. More ammunition was smuggled to them from Mexico by small schooners slipping into the bays of the southern coast. From band to band went couriers, reporting arms shipments and the Government...
...world; now he began to use his new-found power to plague his cast-off family and especially Jose. Jose found himself evicted from his farm; he moved elsewhere; the same thing threatened again. But then Senor Wilson stepped in and effectually removed the threat. In the banditry and guerrilla fighting that the late lean years brought Cuba, fat politico Marco went the way of all politicos, while Jose stayed on on his finca (property), minding his business, begetting children, improving his acres...
...building his Cabinet Premier Maniu was able to include Rumania's other strong man and No. 1 diplomat, Nicholas Titulescu. He, up to last week, had waged guerrilla warfare against the French desire that Rumania join with France and Poland in signing non-aggression pacts with Soviet Russia...
...witness of the Cuban fighting, gives a full, extremely pro-Cuban account of it, compares it favorably with the U. S. War of Independence. According to his figures, the Spanish army finally numbered 200,000 regulars, but it could never come to grips with the ragged, badly-armed Cuban guerrillas, whose policy was never to fight a decisive battle but to wear down the enemy. General Gomez once stated his plan of campaign for the rainy season: "I am going to make the Spanish columns move, move constantly; and I count upon my three important allies, June, July and August...
Seething with guerrilla warfare, Manchuria became Banditland in earnest last week. Civilian passenger and freight traffic was suspended on the Chinese Eastern, vital link in the railways that connect China with Europe. Among refugees pouring into Harbin, chief city on the Chinese Eastern, was Herr Kapitan Roland Strunk, grizzled veteran of the Imperial German Army...