general headquarters

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Spaniards, upon taking stock of Abd-el-Krim's former general headquarters at Ajdir, became aware that the Riffian war lord had furnished himself with many of the commonplaces of European existence.

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The explosions shook the city and French general headquarters, less than 5,000 yards away.

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"Can nobody," asked the Daily Mirror, "dampen the airy-fairy optimism of the military spokesman at general headquarters in Cairo?"

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The general headquarters, based in central Kosovo, consists of a dozen or so men who control the political, civil and military operations of the 3,000 to 10,000 rebels.

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An official statement issued by general headquarters in Vienna on July 18 says: On the Bug River, in the region of Sokol, our troops drove the enemy from a series of stubbornly defended places.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 by Various