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...Louis last week duplicated the Bremen's feat of eluding the British blockade, slipping safely down through Norwegian coastal waters into the Baltic and "a home port," from Murmansk. The 8,000-ton Johannlschulte, one of 16 other German refugees at Murmansk, was less lucky. In a blizzard and raging sea somewhere off Trondheim, she lost her propeller, foundered. Her crew of 36 was rescued by the Norwegian Queen Maud...
Arctic Rout. The far northern drive had already been halted last week-but not by the Russians. In the dark Arctic region south of Petsamo the Finns had a real birthday present for Joe Stalin, and they delivered it wrapped in a blizzard. While the Finns were digging in near Ivalo, on their Lapland "Mannerheim Line," preparing to meet the Russian mechanized forces that were rolling southward, a thick, swirling snowstorm enveloped the Russian Army. Tanks and lorries had to be dug out of snowdrifts. Gasoline supply trucks were stalled on the road from the north. The Russians...
...began his invasion last fortnight with these advantages reversed. Instead of a disgruntled ruling class, he faced a nation which, almost to the man, hates the Russians as bloody oppressors.* And instead of clear weather and frozen lakes, Joe Stalin's forces found themselves fighting in a blinding blizzard, which grounded aviation, smashed tanks against half-concealed boulders and granite tank barriers, and gave to the Finns, who fight guerrilla-style in small units, with short, light machine guns and short, razor-edged knives, an almost even break. By the end of the second week...
After two days of air-bombing, a heavy snowfall grounded all planes. The blizzard also impeded evacuation of foreigners from Helsinki and other cities. Most foreigners sought to cross the Bothnian Sea to Sweden...
PINKHAM NOTCH, N. H.--Out of the teeth of the worst autumn blizzard in Mount Washington's recent history, a girl and two youths trudged today, alive and well, to confound forest rangers who had given them only "one chance in a million" to survive...