Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ukrainian report charged that on June 14 a Greek civilian and six soldiers had sneaked across the Albanian border to whitewash the pyramidal frontier marker No. 23. Said the report: "Our patrol of Trustoniku ordered him not to whitewash it, but as the civilian did not obey, our soldiers fired at him. After an exchange of shots lasting for 30 minutes, the Greek soldiers withdrew to their post of Llapanica, wherefrom they started machine-gunning our soldiers. Our patrol did the same. There were no casualties...
...bell-ringing incident: "Three Greek soldiers of Shon-Morise section secretly entered into our frontier ringing a hand bell to give the impression of a flock of. sheep." But the Albanians were not deceived. "Actually they were reconnoitering our partisan frontier forces. One of the soldiers of our patrol, as soon as he heard the ringing of the hand bell, went to see what was happening. As soon as the Greeks saw our soldier they fired at him, intending to kill him. Our soldier, saving himself, took position and with his two other comrades have fired twice and forced...
...explorers who reached what is now Minnesota, Holand believes, were members of a long-range patrol dispatched from a semi-permanent settlement somewhere to the east. This settlement, he concludes, was on the present site of Newport, R.I. Its citadel was none other than the eight-columned, cylindrical ruin commonly known as the Old Stone Mill, still standing in Newport's Touro Park...
...solution for Ottawa was: extend Canada's fishing rights clear out through the continental shelf, and thus bring Quero under Canadian jurisdiction. A simpler solution: patrol the Bank to protect the rights of Canadian fishermen. Last week the R.C.M.P. "cruiser" French was out belatedly on just such an assignment...
More than 20,000 British troops in maroon berets clamped a cordon around Tel-Aviv, flower of Zionism, while patrol boats sealed the harbor. The all-Jewish population of 200,000 was put tinder a 22-hour curfew. Then the troops moved in with tanks and armored cars, and searched every house, every person for evidence of terrorist activity. In Tel-Aviv hospitals, army doctors X-rayed plaster casts to make sure their wearers were not faking...