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...other sector of the front, cut through a graveyard on a hill smashed and harrowed into a corpsy pudding by gunfire. The next chapter is a letter from Jerphanion to his wife in which he tells her of the rumor that G. H. Q. is about to form "shock troop" battalions, of his canny hope of getting a job in the rear as an instructor. The camera now turns to General Duroure, who is about to take his regular morning horse back ride...
...Finns did a little raiding of their own. Finnish fliers bombed Russian troop concentrations and supply lines for the Karelian Isthmus. They also raided the captured border village of Terijoki, where Red Finns had set up a "People's Government" and equipped a "People's Army" with uniforms from the reign of Sweden's Charles XII (1697-1718) filched from a museum...
...Russia failed to do anything important with its superior navy. Swedish dispatches claimed the Finns had scored a direct hit on the Ortizabrskaya-Revolutia (October Revolution) when it tried to shell Koivisto. On Lake Laatokka the Finnish submarine Saukko continued to harass troop transports...
...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...