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Next day the bombers came back and altogether southern Finland got three raids in a week. Helsinki's citizens, who do not scare easily, amused themselves during one alarm by potting one another with snowballs. During another they watched a Finnish anti-aircraft battery pot one of the visiting bombers. Cabled New York Times Correspondent Harold Denny: "We.saw a flash of fire in the sky, blotted out immediately by a mushrooming blob of black smoke, and then scraps of debris began falling. A moment later we heard a roar...
...Finland was worried last week lest reports of her recent annihilation of two Russian divisions lead other nations to think she needed no help. But help on a small scale became more concrete each day. The French Government announced that not only was it shipping material to the Finns but that Italy and Spain were also sending arms, airplanes and volunteers via France - in Spain's case, shipping Russian material that had been captured in the Civil War. (This was promptly denied in Madrid.) Argentina authorized the shipment of 50,000 tons of wheat to Finland, that country...
Outnumbered six to one, Finland above all needed fighters, and a few of these, too, arrived. A company of Danish volunteers joined the Swedes already under arms...
...report of the rush of volunteers to Finland past the French censor, the Paris bureau of the New York Times executed a neat journalistic backhand...
Reported the Times: "Due to the fact that Switzerland is now closed to skiers, there is a marked tendency on the part of winter sports enthusiasts to go to Finland. These tourists comprise all nationalities, including Poles, White Russians and Czechs exiled from their habitual vast skiing grounds. The Finnish Tourist Agency, which still remains open in centrally located offices on the Avenue de l'Opéra, reports it is doing a brisk business, with steadily rising interest in Finnish tourist resorts. Reports that volunteers are leaving here for Finland are emphatically denied...