Word: telpaneca
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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Guerillas & Gorillas Sirs: Your footnote to the effect that guerillas at Telpaneca are "not to be confused with gorillas, huge apes" is just another insult to intelligent readers which so disgusts a very great number and makes them regret that TIME, which might be so very, very good, is so very, very amateurish and rotten. VERY SORRY SUBSCRIBER Book-Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, Mich...
Next day, in a four-hour affray at Telpaneca, 140 guerrillasš under General Salgado, armed with machine guns and high explosive bombs, attacked a garrison of 20 marines and 20 of the Guardia Nacional. One marine was killed and one mortally wounded; but upon the field of battle the rash guerrillas left 20 dead, carted off 50 wounded, retired into their strongholds...
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