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...methods and the tactics which made this possible were last week becoming apparent. They could be summed up in one military moral : the Greek Army knew how to use what it had. For example, it is said that one bomb tipped the scale at Corizza. Knowing that Italian reserves were being rushed along a certain road, a Greek general sent for some of the few British Blenheims available to him. They arrived in time, knocked out a bridge over which the Italians must pass, machine-gunned the halted column on the far side. Only one of the three Blenheims returned...
With their mechanized equipment, their heavier and more numerous artillery and their larger number of troops, the Italians naturally stuck to the roads, and the roads run through the valleys and the passes. General Papagos made use of the mountains by moving along the heights to outflank the Italians. His infantry, composed of mountaineers - all Greece is mountainous - knew exactly how to get through hills. Everything fitted...
Only of simple equipment - rifles, hand grenades, bayonets - did the Greeks have reasonably adequate supplies, and of these they made the best. Military experts agree that the bayonet and hand-to-hand fighting are out-of-date in modern war, but the Greeks found use for them. Advancing through the mountains, they repeatedly stormed small positions held by Italian detachments who had been sent out to safeguard the flanks of columns on the roads below. Time and again, Greek bayonet and grenade proved conclusive...
...Noel Marryat Hardy, a D.S.O. and Croix de Guerre man of World War I, who returned to duty last year out of retirement in Switzerland, turned four of his eight 6-inchers loose, and tried to close, full speed. He repeatedly hit the German, who had to turn and use her port batteries when the starboard ones were evidently disabled. But the German kept on running, being a raider, not supposed to stand and fight. She had much more foot than the Carnarvon Castle's 17 knots and so, behind smoke screens, she escaped; but not before she showed...
...most of the 130,000,000 U. S. citizens mid-December is a time to make themselves comfortable for the winter: a time to muffle up in warmer clothing, to eat more warming food, to use more fuel, to read more and listen more to the radio, to look out for colds, and (for 25,000,000 of them) to put anti-freeze in the radiator of the car. Many U. S. citizens go traveling at this time of year, on warm trains across State and national borders; a few of them even go to warmer countries, with no more...