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...Helsinki, capital of Finland, faces were sombre last week. No bombs fell: the pretty, deadly silver ships that droned far overhead passed the city by. No enemy warships threatened the mined, ice-locked harbor. No hostile army was within 200 miles. A tense, ominous quiet settled down over the capital as its inhabitants waited for news of the great battle that would decide the fate of Finland...
...blood-soaked snow and frozen muck of the plain south of Viipuri, Finland's Verdun, a sleepless, exhausted and incredibly brave Finnish army had for twelve days withstood a mighty offensive by the best & biggest army that Russia could put into the field. Not since Marshal Haig sent tens of thousands of Britons to their slaughter at the Somme in 1916 had a high command been so prodigal of its men. Stung by its failure, in two months of bitter warfare, to subdue the stubborn Finns, apprehensive that outside help might make the Finns unconquerable by spring, Soviet Russia...
...their tanks ground over the bones of the dead that strewed the battlefield. So jammed were their roads and railroads with fresh troops and supplies that they left their wounded to freeze to death where they fell. The Finns retreated cautiously, carrying their wounded with them, for to Finland's tiny army every man was precious. How many men the Russians used, nobody knew. It did not matter; they had all they could deploy and replacements for all who fell. From the other fronts they had to defend, the Finns could spare a bare 100,000 to man their...
...between the chain of isthmus lakes and encircle Lake Muolaa. This action, if successful, would flank the defenders of Summa. At the same time the Russians hit both ends of the Mannerheim Line, along the Taipale River on the east and, on the west, across the frozen Gulf of Finland in an effort to silence the murderous batteries at Koivisto. The Russians used tanks, armored sleds, infantry shields and flamethrowers. Finns estimated the Russian artillery dropped 300,000 shells in 24 hours...
...Russia, in picking on Finland, roused the ire of millions of Americans, most of whom know Finland only as the nation...