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...Adolf Hitler was putting pressure on Joseph Stalin to call off the war against Finland...
...Russians were dropping female spies by parachute into Finland...
...Russians.) >-"The foreign agencies allege that Finnish troops cut communications along the Murmansk railway and that this line is now 'completely paralyzed.'... In reality, the Murmansk railway has not suspended work for a single minute." (Possibly true. The Finns have blocked a branch line leading toward Finland, and isolated Finnish patrols have been trying to cut the main railroad, but only one is known to have reported reaching it. That patrol consisted of only a few men, who could not carry much dynamite...
...north-central front began moving westward, heading for Kemijärvi, which a small Russian force occupied momentarily in the first week of the war (TIME, Dec. 18). The Finns gave way. By week's end the Russians were within 13 miles of Kemijärvi, halfway across Finland in one of its narrowest parts, the Finns were bringing up troops and artillery, and another big battle was in the making...
Meanwhile, in fine clear weather the Russians unloosed their greatest aerial offensive since the first terroristic raids of the war. More than 300 bombers, flying high, raided almost every important city of southern Finland, including Helsinki (where the house of U. S. Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld was struck), concentrating on the Turku-Helsinki railroad and the Bothnian railroad terminus of Vaasa. Civilian casualties were small (not more than 15), but many business structures in the smaller cities were in flames, due to inadequate fire-fighting equipment. The planes went as far north as the head of the Gulf...