Word: troop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German patrols are usually armed only with grenades, pistols and knives. Their objective is information. They want prisoners if possible [to learn about French troop dispositions, replacements...
...Russians are dependent upon the 900-mile long railroad line to move troop reinforcements and supplies to the northern fighting front...
...Telegraph explained, when suspicions of German intentions seemed confirmed by reports of troop concentrations, King Leopold summoned his ministers to determine the country's atti tude. Guided by "the views and wishes" held by General van Overstraeten, they decided the following: "1) If the German forces attacked Holland but did not come south of Nijmegen and the Rhine, Belgium would not move; 2) if the German advance were directed south of Nijmegen and especially across Dutch Brabant, Belgium would order immediate general mobilization and declare that her own security was threatened." The German Ambassador in Brussels telephoned Berlin...
...Rain, sleet, snow fell on the Western Front. Rivers rose two feet higher. Mud deepened. Despite continued German troop concentrations and systematic artillery fire, consensus of military observers was increasingly against any Big Push by land this winter...
...recruit a full division of Austrian refugees and send them to fight on the Western Front if Britain and France will announce as one of their war aims "restoration of Austria as an inde pendent State." Already in France with a similar proposal was Austria's onetime Heimwehr troop leader and Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime friend of Adolf Hitler, who recently ordered confiscated 13 castles in Austria belonging to the Prince...