Word: counterattacking
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Rebound in the South. On the Crimean peninsula, both sides agreed that the Germans had strongly counterattacked at points southeast of Simferopol. New York Timesman Daniel T. Brigham, covering the Russian war from censor-free Switzerland, declared: "The mere fact that the Germans in that sector are in a position to counterattack at all is taken to indicate that their situation in Simferopol cannot be considered as desperate as it was first thought to be. . . ." Capping the week was a German High Command claim of recapture of Feodosiya, on the Black Sea coast, one of the first Crimean points reclaimed...
...Chinese faded back, sucking the enemy into a tangle of dispersed units. Soon the battle beat about the city itself. Then at dusk one day, as a pelting rain drove down, the Chinese signaled a counterattack. Artillery fire scorched a crumbling pocket of some four Japanese divisions caught north of the city. Boasting that they had inflicted 52,000 casualties on the enemy in a week, the Chinese rushed a party of foreign correspondents to Changsha to tell the world how the Japanese looked...
Chiang's idea of cooperation in this case was to smack a counterattack at the Japanese. The Chinese claimed they had driven one of three Japanese columns back ten miles...
...expect the enemy to counterattack until the end of April...
Biggest Blethen battle was with Hearst, who invaded Seattle with the Post-Intelligencer (bought in 1921), spent money like water. Carefully laying his counterattack, General Blethen hired new feature writers, artists, fought Hearst dollar for dollar. Hearst lost. When John Boettiger, the President's son-in-law, became publisher of the P.I., Publisher Blethen ignored him as no threat...