Word: fours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land, the Russian attack was launched at four places. In the northern corridor the objective was Finland's ice-free port of Petsamo. Heavy snow prevented the use of artillery here and Finnish counter-attacks recaptured Petsamo after its seizure. Russian prisoners taken were found to be ill-equipped for zero weather; many had frozen feet. Noncombatant Finns fled into Norway in busses camouflaged with bedsheets, were strafed from the air by Red fliers. Some 800 Finnish troops, equipped with skis, stood off the attack of several thousand Russians, but had orders to retire into Norway when Red reinforcements...
...Navy, operating out of Russian and Estonian bases, first seized the four small, unfortified islands-Hogland, Seiskari, Tytär, Lavas-which had figured in Russia's pre-war demands on Finland. Farther west, to protect the vital Aland
...whence plenty of hell will rain on them before they win or lose. One young Finnish fighter pilot was credited in the first two days with shooting down single handed six Red bombers. Finland was said to have lost only two planes in the first four days. But even blunderers must prevail when the air odds are 36 to one (the odds of roulette, without any zeros), if only by blasting out the defender's landing fields. In leaflets dumped on Helsinki, the Russians threatened mass bombing with 800 planes if the Finns did not capitulate at once. Should...
...having a mine-sweeping fleet of its own. Publicly discovered last week was the fact that Robin Inskip, 22, son of Viscount Caldecote (Lord Chancellor in the Chamberlain War Cabinet), was aboard the mine sweeper Aragonite when she was blown out of water last fortnight with serious injury to four men. Safe home in London with his family, Robin Inskip chirped: "A bit of a shakeup...
...want him installed as head of the "Chinese Government" as soon as possible; last week the Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma called on Premier Nobuyuki Abe to urge haste. But even Wang Ching-wei does not trust the Japanese, and he has consistently refused to take office except on four conditions: 1) conclusion of a water-tight peace treaty; 2) return to the Chinese of railroads, customs, native-owned factories; 3) partial withdrawal of Japanese troops; 4) guarantees of eventual complete withdrawal except from North China and Manchukuo. Last week's bold statements indicated that Wang Ching...