Word: isthmus
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...widely supposed that Germany agreed to recognize some Russian interests in the Balkans, most probably in Rumania's Bessarabia and in eastern Bulgaria and the Isthmus...
...Finns did a little raiding of their own. Finnish fliers bombed Russian troop concentrations and supply lines for the Karelian Isthmus. They also raided the captured border village of Terijoki, where Red Finns had set up a "People's Government" and equipped a "People's Army" with uniforms from the reign of Sweden's Charles XII (1697-1718) filched from a museum...
...middle of the isthmus, near Punnuojoki, the Russians attacked in waves. The Finns stood their ground behind their granite-slab defenses, finally sent them running. The Finns said they took 33 tanks at Loimola and on the isthmus, three of them null In 17 days' fighting they claimed to have captured 250 Russian tanks...
Central Front. Russia's most potent threat to Finland came, not from the isthmus, but from four columns which penetrated the 485-mile frontier between Lake Laatokka and the Arctic Circle, striking westward at Finnish railheads and roadheads, trying to reach the Gulf of Bothnia. Last fortnight one of these columns was reported to have captured Kemijärvi and to be bearing down on Rovaniemi, which lies on Finland's Arctic Highway. Last week the Finns rushed troops north from the isthmus and in a surprise attack recaptured Salla, cutting this Russian column off from its base...
From Maine down to the Isthmus...