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...field howitzer, truck-drawn, is identical except that it has a split-trail carriage and cannot be broken down into pack loads. These 75-mm.s fire a 15-lb. shell better than 5.3 miles...
...dusk the German torpedo planes came in, skimming the grey, becalmed Mediterranean. One torpedo went by. Another hit the U.S.S. Lansdale square amidships, nearly split her in two. The destroyer began to sink...
Wiry, honor-hungry General Shunroku Hata had used this and other assets, like superior firepower, with seeming skill and a full appreciation of the weakness of his foe. He split his forces into small columns (the two which crossed the Yellow River numbered only 5,000 men), sent them streaking across Honan's ripening wheat fields. Once his wedges had pierced the outer defense belts, he sent them into mushroom patterns. Result: encirclement of Chinese front-line troops. The advance went...
...months the case had rocked Santa Ana, Calif., and the $50,000,000 Army air base there. It had split the town's top social stratum wide open, divided officers on the station into cliques, shaken the loyalties of thousands of cadets in training. Now the feud between Colonel William Abbott Robertson, frosty commanding officer of the base, and Colonel Joseph James Canella, brawny, fun-loving base quartermaster, hit its climax. Colonel Canella was indicted for conspiring to defraud the U.S. Government...
...first acts of the Bolshevik Government in 1918 was to whittle down the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Church was soon split into feuding factions. Biggest chip off the old flock was the schismatic, Bolshevik-supported Living Church whose heresiarch was Alexander Vedensky, formerly an Archpriest (a Russian clerical rank one step higher than a priest). Later Vedensky split with the Living Church, finally participated in an ecclesiastical fusion called the New Church. But as the Soviet Government's flirtation with the Orthodox Church got under way, Vedensky dropped out of sight, in the Russian fashion...