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...British did not deny using the cards. They said that the leaves had been used to set fire to military stores standing in open dumps, in arsenals, in railway cars on sidings, in trucks, or in woods. Sincerely regretful of the costly blight which had come upon Propaganda Minister Goebbels' roses, and refraining from indiscriminate bombing of Berlin despite urgent popular pull for it, the R. A. F. further pointed out that it had bombed scores of authentic military objectives, such as potential jumping-off spots for an invasion, railroad centres like Hamm, Ehrang (near Trier), Osnabr...
...paper Japan had been granted the use of three Tonkin air bases and permission to transport 20,000 troops on the French-owned Indo-China Railway for a backdoor attack on China. It was to demand permission to transport 40,000 more troops and the free use of the great French naval base at Cam-ranh Bay that General Nishihara made his midnight call...
Dictators have bulletproof railway cars and last week Carol Hohenzollern, royal dictator of Rumania for the last two and a half years, barely escaped alive from his country as lead spat against the armored sides of his speeding private train. The loyalty to this Hohenzollern of a simple Rumanian stationmaster at Timisoara was all that saved Carol II from the wrath of his bitter people...
Enraged, Iron Guardsmen swarmed aboard another locomotive in the Timisoara railway yards, forced the engineer at pistol point to chase the Hohenzollern special. Like Keystone cops, other Guardsmen piled cursing into Timisoara taxis, bounced off full speed in a wild chase to head off the train at Jimbola on the frontier...
Before & After. During the whole agonizing abdication crisis Hungarian troops, led by Regent Horthy on a white charger, were slowly moving into Transylvania. Tens of thousands of Rumanian peasants were being shunted to new homes. They and their chickens and ducks overflowed Rumanian railway cars so tightly jammed that most of the human and animal freight got in & out of windows instead of doors. Small bands of Rumanian soldiers and petty officers announced they would resist the Hungarians by waging guerrilla warfare in the Carpathians, but none of these bands caused the occupying Hungarian forces much trouble...