Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgian border. The French IX Army wheeled right, into position in the Ardennes Mountains. They settled down at Arlon near the Luxembourg border before the Germans got there. The British Expeditionary Force, 200,000 strong and placed in the centre, rolled smoothly out of the Sambre Valley, heading northeast for Liege and the Albert Canal which its advanced forces reached, festooned with flowers from Belgium's women, within 48 hours. The French I Army on the left made for the Albert Canal. The French VII Army, mechanized, whirred up the West Flanders highways through Antwerp to Dutch Breda...
...sixth was still intact and in action around Narvik. Some 12,500 strong, based on Kirkenes (550 miles by sea northeast of Narvik), it was the best equipped, having been made ready for action during Finland's trouble last winter. Last fortnight Nazi air scouts flew even up to Kirkenes and dropped a few preliminary bombs, preparing to obey their Fiihrer's order to make his conquest of Norway complete...
...mere "expressions of opinion." This week Sir John will ask the House of Commons to enact "A Bill To Make Further Provision and Punishment For Treachery," imposing death as the penalty for serious cases of spying. Detectives this week were busy trying to catch up with quislings who plastered northeast London with stickers urging everyone to listen to "the new British broadcasting station" on a wave length which turned out to be Hamburg. The Churchill Cabinet, predicted leading British Communists, will shortly suppress the Communist Party. The Government decreed a $1,750 penalty for the new crime of exporting from...
Laerdal. Boldest Allied penetration was at Laerdal at the head of deep Sogne Fjord, 90 miles northeast of German-held Bergen and 140 miles northwest of Oslo. This was the landing closest to Germany, also closest (130 miles) to Stavanger, Norway's biggest air base, now German...
...vast Red Russia's hammering attack on little snowbound Finland opened as usual on all fronts last week. Soon after dawn, Red bombers appeared over interior cities, methodically dropping demolition where it would most damage communications and transport, incendiary charges where they would burn homes and civilian morale. Northeast of Lake Ladoga,* Red tanks and infantry tried to make headway where three of their divisions had been whittled to bits. As usual, they were driven back. At Taipale, Vuosalmi and along the Vuoksi in the centre of the Karelian Isthmus, tired Finnish defenders stood firm under fresh concatenations...