Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sidewalk in droves. Last month they tried marching in a column of 100 at the height of dinner-hour traffic, a move which ended, as it was supposed to, in a pitched battle. Eight policemen were hurt and scores of pickets arrested, including a girl who was held for assault for kicking a cop in the shins. Only contribution to the tactics of industrial warfare was the part played by pickets already in patrol wagons. Systematically as a newcomer stepped in he would be pushed out on the heads of the police. Exasperated by this kind of picketing...
...telephone from Barcelona Leftist Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto granted all these requests except permission to leave Spain, and sent three companies of assault guards to Teruel to see that Leftist militiamen kept order, took no vengeance on Rightist soldiers and civilians "surrendering with honor." By evening, when most of the civilians had been evacuated from the besieged garrison, Lieut. Colonel Rey d'Harcourt, who with his garrison had been on the verge of starvation for six days, surrendered in person. Captives totaled 40 important officers, 2,450 other ranks and about 3.000 civilians. Among the last to surrender...
Able U. S. correspondent on the field in the final Leftist assault on Teruel last week was the New York Tiniest much favored Herbert L. Matthews (once awarded a cross by Fascist Italy). Moving forward on the last day with a supporting column he reported that a sudden change in the weather had almost entirely melted the blinding snows of the first day of the attack, noted a pair of happy dogs gamboling ahead of the grim advancing line of skirmishers, announced that in this entire advance of 50,000 Leftist troops he saw but one foreign officer, a Bulgarian...
...Dinamiteros! Los Dinamiteros!" shouted the troops, and out they tumbled, swaggering self-consciously, weighed down with their only weapons, home-made hand grenades. At dusk a few hours later he was able to see the Asturian Dinamiteros leading the final assault into the city, lit like gruesome fireflies by the flashes of their bursting bombs. That night though a handful of Rightist civil guards remained holed up in the ruins of Teruel's cathedral sworn to die by their guns. Teruel's citizens staged an exuberant torchlight parade through the streets, and captured searchlights floodlighted captured buildings...
...action last week at Teruel, tip of the long Rightist finger which points down from Aragon at Leftist Valencia. While the world awaited a Rightist drive, Leftist troops under General Sebastian Pozas took the offensive. Surging forward through a blizzard in a surprise attack, the Leftists avoided a frontal assault on Teruel itself, heavily fortified by the Rightists for over a year. Instead they sent from north & south two columns accompanied by tanks and planes to nip the line of communications behind the city. By the fourth day Teruel was surrounded, despite counter-attacks from the garrison...