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Near Lake Kianta the Russians threw their entire 163rd Division into battle, trying again to break through Finland's waist. In a bitter two-day battle the Finns "cut to pieces" the 163rd, pursued its remnants into the forests and toward the frontier...
What war is like in the wastes of north-central Finland was ably described by Correspondent James Aldridge of the North American Newspaper Alliance, who spent two days with a Finnish advance post somewhere between Kemijarvi and Salla. Wrote...
...wounded survive the war in northern Finland, because "lying for 15 minutes in this cold, even if a man is only slightly wounded, means he will be frozen stiff...
...offensive he sent 38-year-old General Gregory Stern, who until recently was commander of Soviet forces in the Far East, gave the Japanese a good trouncing at Changkufeng. (His grocer brother Morris, unearthed in a Los Angeles suburb last week, said: "I don't like it. Finland is a democratic country. Why don't they leave her alone...
Though help was going to Finland, it was not going fast enough. Two detachments of Swedish "volunteers" arrived under 71 -year-old General Ernst Linder, but Italy was reported to be delaying effective help because of German objections. Desperately the Helsinki Government cabled its military attaché in Washington, Colonel Per Zilliacus, to buy planes and send them quickly. Colonel Zilliacus was having a hard time, for most U. S. plants were clogged with French and British orders. And the Finns' greatest need, artillery and small arms, was even harder to buy in a warring world. A good example...