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...same tactics worked at Suomussalmi, past which a Russian column was thrusting across Finland's narrowest part toward Uolu on the Gulf. In a four-day battle the Finns cut the roads leading from Suomussalmi church to the frontier, then stormed into Suomussalmi village, routed Russian tanks, and trapped a Russian force they estimated at 10,000. If the Finns could prevent this force from working in conjunction with the columns to the north and south, Russia's Bothnian threat would be ended and the lost columns could be starved, frozen or carved to death...
...more too. In Tunisia some troops were held in barracks, while others moved up to the fortified line near the Libyan border. French submarines patrolled the Tunisian Coast. The French Mediterranean fleet of 44 warships moved suddenly into the naval base at Bizerte, at the entrance to the narrowest part of the Mediterranean opposite Sicily. Carrying out "spring exercises" not far away were 92 men-of-war of the British Home and Mediterranean Fleets...
French troops "reoccupied" a strategic strip of territory in the Red Sea area, establishing six garrisons there. This zone, facing the narrowest point of the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, was ceded to Italy in a Franco-Italian treaty of 1935. The treaty was never ratified by France and was denounced by Italy two months ago. In Paris it was pointed out that Italy had never occupied the zone thus hinting at France's right to retake...
...before close of school for the summer. . . . It was only toward the end that the headmaster, the Rev. Endicott Peabody, learned the topic under discussion, descended with outraged screams and howls upon the entire program, called everything off and retired to his study mopping his clerical brow over the narrowest call of his career. The lads had selected as a subject: 'Which of its graduates, Richard Whitney or Franklin D. Roosevelt, has brought more discredit to Groton...
...contrasted with the relatively fixed positions of the stars. This wanderer, christened "Object Reinmuth 1937 U. B.," appeared to be several miles in diameter.* Its orbit was calculated from the streaks. Last week, after all danger was past, Johannesburg astronomers announced that in October the earth had had its narrowest escape from collision with a celestial body of such size in astronomical history...