Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guerrilla warfare, which has been troubling the Japanese for years, in China, has already begun in their occupation of the new territories they have conquered, according to a Berlin broadcast Monday, quoting Japanese newspapers...
...many of the Kazaks and their animals died in the desert, but the caravan finally came into the long panhandle of Kansu Province. Kansu was not better than Sinkiang. The Chinese Moslems did not welcome their coreligionists from the west, and for two years the Kazaks fought a constant guerrilla war. Desperately they decided to move on, as Tartar tribes have done since time immemorial...
Draja Mihailovich's fiery army of 145-150,000 former Yugoslav regulars, Serb Chetnik guerrillas, Croats, Slovenes, Jews, Bulgarian and Austrian deserters, has often been called a guerrilla force. It usually fights in small, separated groups like guerrillas. But General Mihailovich has a radio sending station. His forces have countless portable radio receiving sets of the former Yugoslav Army. His war is not impromptu guerrilla warfare. It is an organized, continuous raiding operation-mobile, swift, deceptive-which in years to come will undoubtedly rank as an epic...
This story of war in China, readable at any time, is of a particular interest now which rates it high on U.S. best-seller lists. Its chief characters: a rich man, a Buddhist, a girl. Its setting: the: cities of Peking, Shanghai, Hankow, and the guerrilla-landscapes between. Its dominant theme: some of the effects of war upon the human spirit...
...Russian persistence showed signs of stiffening as Adolf Hitler's armies struggled to establish a winter line sufficiently strong to hold until the next thrust at Moscow, planned for the coming of warm weather. But Soviet military leaders claimed that German morale faltered as Red strategists dusted off guerrilla techniques unused since the first Finnish campaign: ski troops to scourge the ski-less, fleeing enemy; night raiders to swoop down on exhausted, sleeping soldiers; propeller-driven sleds mounting cannon and machine guns...