Word: frontierisms
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This time the Russian Army waited two months at East Prussia's frontier, reorganizing and piling up supplies. When the attack began on Oct. 16, a frightened Berlin reported: "No battle in the east has ever seen such concentration of Russian air forces and seasoned campaigners can not recall a similar surfeit of Russian artillery and tanks...
When Finland surrendered, most of the Germans in northern Finland were dug in near the nickel mines and the Norwegian frontier. Colonel General Lothar Rendulic had two divisions in the far north based on the Norwegian port of Kirkenes (35 miles northwest of Petsamo); three divisions were based farther south on the railroad town of Rovaniemi (65 miles north of the Gulf of Bothnia...
Germany's southern frontier would soon be a front, instead of an area threatened by swift-moving Russian spearheads...
...Frontier Justice. In Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, a magistrate and two miners, drunk and disorderly, were locked up for the night, later met in a nearby court where the magistrate (who had just paid a $5.50 fine himself) lectured his jailmates on temperance, fined them $13 apiece...
Russia's territorial demands had increased since the spring negotiations. Instead of the tip of the Ribachi Peninsula, commanding the approach to far-northern Petsamo, the Russians had now taken Petsamo itself and enough surrounding territory to cut off Finland from the Arctic, restore the Tsarist frontier with Norway. Instead of their lease on Hangö, commanding the Gulf of Finland, Russia took a 50-year lease on the Porkkala Peninsula for a naval base. This brought the Russians within twelve miles of Helsinki. Russia also got back Viipuri, Finland's fourth biggest city. Parts of timber-rich...