Word: kertes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week walked two gaunt, hollow-eyed newsmen. After 18 months' imprisonment, NBC Correspondent Richard Applegate and I.N.S. Correspondent Donald Dixon were released by the Chinese Communists. With them was a U.S. merchant marine officer, Ben Krasner, captured with them while they were cruising on Applegate's sailboat Kert in international waters west of Hong Kong...
...newsmen who vanished behind the Chinese Communist bamboo curtain more than a year ago were reported released this week. I.N.S. Correspondent Donald Dixon, 26, and National Broadcasting Co. Correspondent Richard Applegate, 38, were captured by a Red gunboat while vacationing aboard their sailboat Kert in waters west of Hong Kong. Along with their U.S.-born captain, Dixon and Applegate were taken prisoner, accused of "intruding into China's waters." Repeated U.S. attempts to have them released failed. This week the Communist Peking radio announced that they and their skipper had been "deported" from Red China and were on their...
...hours later, the so-called "Moroccan War" (TIME, May 11, 1925, et seq.) was again proceeding in desultory fashion. French aviators flew over Riffian mud-hovels dropping expensive bombs. French infantry advanced in the region of Kert conjointly with Spanish troops which moved upon Azib de Midar...