Word: karelians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When the Russians first tried to walk into Finland, across the Karelian Isthmus and around the shores of Lake Laatokka, the Finns described the troops they slaughtered as cannon fodder. When Russia's thrusts across Finland's narrow waist bogged down, then turned into the rout of Suomussalmi, the Finns contemptuously pointed out that the drives had been haphazardly planned, poorly supplied. But when, last fortnight, Russia began pounding away on all fronts, there was every indication that this mightiest offensive of the war had been carefully planned, was well supplied, and employed seasoned Red Army troops...
Officials denied Moscow's claims that the line had been pierced, and said that at the western end of the fortifications straddling the Karelian Isthmus in the vicinity of Summa, repeated Russian assaults were crushed yesterday, killing, about 700 Russians...
Meanwhile 12,000 Germans under Gen eral Graf Rudiger von der Goltz had landed in Finland. They took Hanko for the Whites, moved on to Helsinki, pushing the Reds back toward the Karelian Isthmus. The Whites took Vüpuri, the Reds fled into Russia, and on May 16, 1918, Mannerheim rode into Helsinki in triumph...
Another is General Hugo Ostermann, Commander in Chief of the Army and the man credited with directing most of the quick thrusts and counter-thrusts that have so disorganized the Russians. He fought for Germany in World War I. And in charge of the Karelian Isthmus is General Harald Ohquist, who helped to design the series of positions that have come to be known as the Mannerheim Line. Finns say he knows every boulder on the isthmus. So well has he defended it against terrific frontal assaults that the Finns thought up a story about it. A Russian soldier knocks...
...Karelian Isthmus last week General Grigory Stern's fresh Russian troops dug themselves into trenches, while northward from Leningrad streamed more fresh soldiers and supplies. The Russians tried again to flank the Mannerheim Line, were slaughtered at Tolvaj...