Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capital. In the rugged, snow-covered uplands of northwestern Greece, the Vafiades rebels attacked with 23 battalions, according to government estimates. They seemed to have chosen the government-held town of Konitsa, six miles from the Albanian border, for the capital of their new state. The government garrison in Konitsa was completely encircled while hundreds of shells crashed into the town from the guerrillas' 66-mm. guns. Wounded several times, Konstantin Dovas, the Konitsa garrison commander, directed the defense from a hospital bed. At week's end government reinforcements were pouring up the road from Ioannina and half...
...week, only a month and a half after their fall offensive ended, they were hammering the approaches to Mukden again, despite four-foot snow and cold that dipped to 30° below zero. The Reds did not have to storm Mukden, it probably would be enough to keep the garrison cold and isolated for the big push next spring...
...other pastors: Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Southern Baptist Louie D. Newton, Northern Baptist Edwin T. Dahlberg, Disciples' W. E. Garrison...
...save face, Greeks do not like to admit how badly off they are. The young prefect of a district described to me how his town was virtually encircled, how its garrison was outnumbered, how nearby villages were raided nightly, how he was at a total loss to feed and house all the thousands of refugees who had flocked in to the relative safety of the town. He painted a hopeless picture. Finally a British correspondent with me commented that, judging by the way the prefect talked, the guerrillas were winning the battle in this area...
...girls, "sitting erect and in good order," being addressed by a police official. "During this time of our Government's general mobilization," the official said, "you should stand by your posts and remember your duty to your country. [Your part] is as important as city walls and regular garrison troops." They should find out, he added, "what lies within the hearts of your guests and influence them toward .correct thinking." If they discovered a Communist they should "delay his departure until the police are summoned...