After several

Assassinations

Battalion

Was assigned

Food control

System of ration

Convoys

Gate checks

Full scale

Tactical began

Artillery mortars

And aircraft

The plan

To bomb and shell

The swamp

Day and night

Driven out

Into ambushes

They were

Well prepared

To stay

Indefinitely

Food parties came out

Occasionally

Civil population

Afraid to report

Plans were modified

Reduced to night time

Ambushes continued

Nassau

Remained location

No food

No communications

With the outside world

35 killed

In the end

Of emergency

Nassau

The end