Word: portes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land, the Russian attack was launched at four places. In the northern corridor the objective was Finland's ice-free port of Petsamo. Heavy snow prevented the use of artillery here and Finnish counter-attacks recaptured Petsamo after its seizure. Russian prisoners taken were found to be ill-equipped for zero weather; many had frozen feet. Noncombatant Finns fled into Norway in busses camouflaged with bedsheets, were strafed from the air by Red fliers. Some 800 Finnish troops, equipped with skis, stood off the attack of several thousand Russians, but had orders to retire into Norway when Red reinforcements...
Between the Nazi's mine warfare and Britain's reprisal blockade on German exports, effective this week, neutral shipping slowed to a standstill. Dutch ships stayed in port, Belgian too. Cross-Channel mail boats missed their runs or were rerouted below the British mine barrage at the Strait of Dover. True it was that this barrage, and a mine field guarding the Thames estuary, and the British blockade patrol, were what originally forced neutrals to enter British waters for guidance and inspection. But now neutrals had even smaller chance of getting through until British sweepers cleared the German...
...anything to warn the ship? No, he replied, he had no authority to do that. But he telephoned to his fire commander and reported the situation. Did the fire commander do anything to warn the Sirdhana? No, he had first to get an order from the port war station...
Norwegian freighter Solviken, seeking to enter Singapore harbor. She headed for a mine field. Whang went a warning shot from a shore battery across her bows, out came a patrol ship to lead Solviken into port...
...lakes were frozen solid enough to support Army movements, Dictator Joseph Stalin meant to have a Finnish war-unless he was playing a gigantic game of bluff to the very end. Whether bluffing or not, the Finns took no chances. They closed most of the channels leading into the port of Helsinki preparatory to mining, and the little Army on the Karelian Isthmus braced itself against an increasingly probable attack...