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...worth of Harry Winston jewels, two Maximilian minks and five Main-bocher originals) through that hilarious old gin-rummy game, and asked a visiting U.S. Senator's wife: "You want to wash your hands or anything, honey?" She also marked the beginning of her social awakenings by defining "peninsula" as "that new medicine." As Harry Brock, the bullying baron, of junk who tries to buy the U.S. Senate, Paul Douglas was again, as he was for 1,642 performances on Broadway, superbly irascible and boorish...
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported Israeli claims that the whole Sinai Peninsula--150 miles wide at the Mediteranean end and 230 miles deep--had fallen to a successful Israeli pincer movement. The 20,000-man Egyptian force guarding the area was reported in full retreat toward the Suez Canal, where landings by British and French paratroops were expected momentarily...
Meanwhile, Israeli forces advanced into the Sinai Peninsula along a 70-mile front. Unofficial reports still placed an advance Israeli group within 18 1/2 miles of the canal, although the Egyptians claimed they had smashed an Israeli column. Both nations' air forces were brought into the conflict...
...banner of the Republic of China seemed to have peacefully triumphed over the five-starred Red flag. Then an impetuous official ripped down two Nationalist flags in a strongly anti-Communist refugee project in Kowloon, across the bay from Hong Kong island. Riots, fear, death suddenly erupted across the peninsula...
Bloody Sea. But fail they did, and the decision was made to open the passage by capturing the shore. On the morning of April 25, 1915, 60,000 Allied troops headed toward the Dardanelles peninsula in the first great amphibious land assault of modern times. In an age when armored landing craft were practically unknown, British, French and Anzacs went ashore in a flotilla of paddle steamers, trawlers, yachts and river tugs. Scarcely a naval gun boomed to soften up the Turkish beaches before them: the warships at Gallipoli were too busy transporting the troops. The result was carnage...