Word: bosnia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guerrillas against occupying Axis troops grew hotter as the weather cleared. From Yugoslavia's island of freedom (TIME, May 25) came news last week that General Draja Mihailovich's Army, now grown to a total of 200,000 men, had swooped down to attack Axis columns in Bosnia, then had retired again to craggy hideouts. In Croatia, deserters from Pavelich's Axis-puppet army were forming "Green Cadres" to harass the German. At Metkovich, Dalmatia, guerrillas derailed an Italian troop train, brought Italian casualties in Yugoslavia to a total of 5,000 men in five months...
...crushing Mihailovich's "invisible" mountaineers. Symbol of resistance. Mihailovich drew new recruits from all the Balkans. Possibly he had 200,000 men in all. But he was not invulnerable. At week's end, the exiled Yugoslav Government in London announced that his troops were hard pressed in Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro. Hopeful of arms and help from somewhere, somehow, Mihailovich himself radioed that his position was "critical...
...went to Croatia, Dalmatia, Bosnia, Old Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro. She climbed mountains, visited Roman and Venetian ruins, tuberculosis sanatoria, Turkish mosques, shrines, churches, monasteries, tombs, hovels, homes. She talked with intellectuals, professors, lawyers, peasants, poets, censors, soldiers, politicians, anti-Serb Croats, fanatical Serb nationalists, Bosnian Moslems and unassimilated Turks...
...There are two Yugoslav "armies" in the field, numbering between 80,000 and 100,000 men. One, largely composed of Regular Army units, which never surrendered, is fighting in eastern Serbia near the border of Bulgaria. The other is operating on the borders of Bosnia in western Serbia. From Bosnia fully 1,000,000 Serbs have been driven by Dr. Ante Pavelitch's squads of terrorists, the Ustaschi. Most of the men refugees have joined the Chetniks in the hills...
...Britain by sending a telegram of sympathy to the Boer leader, Oom Paul Kruger. He refused to renew the Reinsurance Treaty with Russia, through which Bismarck had protected Germany's rear for adventures in Western Europe, and further alienated Russia by supporting Austria's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908. He blocked French seizure of Morocco for a while, rattled his sword at France...