Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the first mass funeral, nobody found time for more burials. Since several cemeteries were being used as guerrilla strong points, naked corpses were piled up in mortuaries like cordwood...
...demonstrating against the Government's ultimatum ordering guerrilla forces to disarm and disband by Dec. 10. A fortnight ago British Lieut. General Ronald MacKenzie Scobie had conferred with the EAM guerrilla leader, leftist General Stephanos Saraphis, and the EDES' leader, rightist General Napoleon Zervas. Zervas agreed to disarm his followers. Saraphis would not. General Scobie warned all Greeks: "I am convinced that in many parts of this country freedom of the people does not exist. ... [I am prepared to] stand by the side of the present constitutional Government until it has a national army under its banners...
...Chinese Communists . . . have good armies that are now fighting guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in North China. . . . The Generalissimo regards these armies as the chief threat to his supremacy . . . has made no sincere attempt to arrange at least a truce with them for the duration of the war. ... No diplomatic genius could have overcome the Generalissimo's basic unwillingness to risk his armies in battle with the Japanese...
...many reasons for the swift U.S. success, not the least was the Filipinos themselves, whose guerrillas had been harassing Jap command posts, spying on sea movements, running weather stations and flashing messages to U.S. listening posts. Since the fall of 1942, when a weak radio signal was received in Australia from Panay, Douglas MacArthur had been supplying the rebels by submarine. Last week the guerrilla chief on Leyte and Samar, lithe, impassive Colonel Ruperto Kangleon claimed that his men had killed 3,800 Japs in the past year. Kangleon's chief of staff was a U.S PT-boat officer...
When the Germans conquered the Land, Srebnitz left school to join Hlaka's guerrilla band on the Mountain. The Land is presumably Greece but it might be any land fighting for its liberty. The men of the Mountain are not individuals but figures from a poetic legend. Otherwise Irish Lord Dunsany's latest invention is pure adventure story...