Word: odessa
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...base at Sevastopol, from communication with the mainland. The Russians, far from giving the peninsula up-perhaps remembering that in the Crimean War 86 years ago Sevastopol resisted British and French siege for over eleven long months-rushed reinforcements by sea, prepared to make a bitter stand, as at Odessa and Leningrad...
...landed in the town and killed not only General von Schobert but all his staff and the Nazi-liege governor of the province. Seven days later General Mihai lonescu, Chief of Staff of the Rumanian Army, was reported killed in action as his troops hammered at the walls of Odessa...
This time Odessa has dug in for another bloody event. For trench digging, 100,000 spades have been manufactured in the caviar and sturgeon canning factories within, the past six weeks. Its defenders have been busy manufacturing "Molotov cocktails" (impromptu bombs) out of jam and fish cans; hatchets; crowbars; homemade armored cars. A sign in the telegraph office reads: "We do not guarantee time of arrival...
...charge was a lot less ambitious was suggested by the fact that the Russians did not at once report the capture of many prisoners. But the Germans were forced to retire. If they retired much farther the Russians might recapture the most direct railway line from Leningrad to Odessa, might thus prevent Adolf Hitler from establishing valuable north-south communications east of the Pripet Marshes...
Vital to the defense of Russia is her Black Sea Fleet, which has played a part in the defense of Odessa and dominates the rest of the Sea. Last week Turkey stoutly refused to allow Italian ships to pass through the Dardanelles, and the Black Sea was still a Russian lake. But Russia was obviously worried...