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...wells containing the water he required for a desert war. A similar but more elaborate ruse, involving 15,000 dummy horses and a secret concentration of 35,000 troops and 385 siege guns, set up what was probably the greatest Allied victory of World War I. The siege guns tore a gap in the Turkish lines, and through the gap Allenby hurled 9,000 horsemen. It was the last great cavalry charge in military history. In 36 hours, Allenby destroyed two Turkish armies and captured 80,000 men. Six weeks later, Turkey sued for peace...
...control, the other parties urged their followers to return to their homes. It was too late. Near Cannanore, a mob of 10,000 stopped a freight train and looted it. In the capital of Trivandrum an angry throng broke through police lines, then wrecked a railway station. Elsewhere rioters tore up rail track, built barricades across roads and highways, taunted police with the cry: "Shoot us or give us rice!" Police fired warning shots over the heads of the rioters, but no one was killed, though scores were injured in scuffles, and property damage was high...
Stephanopoulos ordered them to stop in the name of the law, but they ignored him. Young King Constantine signed a decree terminating the Assembly, but one bishop contemptuously tore it off the synod gate. Shrugging off a warning from the Ministry of Justice that they were committing a crime by electing and transferring bishops, the Assembly last week kept on sending them off to churches to be consecrated in affluent new jobs. The attendant congregations, instead of greeting the prelates with the liturgical chant of "Worthy, worthy," shouted "Unworthy! Unworthy!" and exchanged kicks and blows with the bishops' partisans...
Since the BRA tore down 14 houses in August, it has evicted no more residents. The Boston City Council has voted to ask the BRA to halt further evictions until the legislature acts on the pending bill...
Underwood was the only person arrested, although scuffles between the two groups of pickets took place all day Demonstrators stood quietly while a group of teenagers grabbed signs saying "Negotiations Now" and tore them to pieces. An Ayer resident offered the pickets a gallon can of gasoline and yelled C'mon, cowards...