Word: guerilla
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...give rise to international complications, Secretary MacDonald sent by special messenger a cleverly equivocal note to Consul Dominguez. "In that statement," he said, "the term 'Mexican General' was used in no way referring to the genuine Mexican generals who have shown ability and valor, but to the guerilla generals in Mexico, who for many years have infested that country to its detriment...
...only one U. S. journalist has had the manly gumption to go jungaleering in Nicaragua and cable home true details of the war now being fought between U. S. Marines and the indomitable Nicaraguan guerilla, General Augusto Calderon Sandino (TIME, Aug. 1). The unique jungle journalist is Carleton Beals, now special correspondent in Nicaragua for The Nation, liberal, trenchant, enterprising Manhattan weekly review. Although Correspondent Beals was both prolix and tediously descriptive of scenery in his early despatches, it is now possible to cull one excellent purple passage and then get down to the solid news of the first interview...
...commanding the 1,200 U. S. Marines in Nicaragua, issued a general exhortation to "untiring exertion" by Marines during "the next two months," because after that the rainy season will set in and thereafter it would admittedly be impossible to subdue the forces of General Augusto Calderon Sandino, hardy guerilla & patriot, now indomitably in arms against U. S. intervention...
Even acts of supreme violence lose their power to shock when repeated a sufficient number of times at a sufficient distance. Ever since the French League Mandate was established over Syria (1922) the rebellious Druses and other savage natives have been selling their lives dearly almost daily in guerilla attacks upon the French Army of Occupation. For eight months the French garrison at Damascus has bombarded that city or its environs almost nightly (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.). Scarcely a morning dawns that French airplanes do not drone aloft to release bombs. At Aleppo, Horns, Hama, Seraand, Suedia and Salkhad...
...hard to realize in this country. Huge numbers of the inhabitants of Asia Minor, Syria, and the Caucasus were left homeless and without means of support or sustenance due to the destruction wreaked upon the country by the coming and going or armies and the devastation of guerilla warfare...