Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks of holding off repeated thrusts at their Mannerheim defenses in the Karelian Isthmus, the Finns last week began to retake ground previously lost to the Russians. By week's end detailed accounts of fighting became available. Trying to flank the Mannerheim Line, the Russians organized a big attack along the west bank of Lake Laatokka, where the Taipale River flows into the lake. First they had to cross the river, and a Finnish soldier told the United Press's Webb Miller what happened to 500 Russians there...
...reach the Gulf of Bothnia. Last fortnight one of these columns was reported to have captured Kemijärvi and to be bearing down on Rovaniemi, which lies on Finland's Arctic Highway. Last week the Finns rushed troops north from the isthmus and in a surprise attack recaptured Salla, cutting this Russian column off from its base, leaving it marooned somewhere on the edge of the Arctic Circle...
Died. Carl Edgar Mapes, 64, able, hardworking, non-orating, longtime Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. His last words: "I wish I were home [Grand Rapids, Mich...
Died. Dr. William Irving Sirovich, 57, New York's eloquent, dressy, perpetually carnationed Congressman from the Lower East Side; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Died. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, 61, President (the 16th) of Panama, longtime champion of Pan-American solidarity; of a heart attack; in Penonome, Panama...