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Like camp followers out for booty or vultures for remains, men whose profession is fighting, or telling others how to fight, combed the aftermath of the Russo-Finnish struggle last week for military discoveries, lessons, curiosities...
...equipped as occupying troops instead of for sheer attack and holding. The elaborate Russian caravans which sought to penetrate Finland's forested southeast corner and central "waist" bogged down of their own weight and complexity on narrow roads. Under the circumstances, the superior mobility of the ten-man Finnish ski patrols actually gave them superiority in effective numbers over the hordes of stalled Russians, a superiority not unlike that of a small wolf pack over a herd of caribou...
...Gustaf Emil Mannerheim has been a soldier for 58 of his 72 years. He served his Tsar as a bodyguard, as a colonel in the Russo-Japanese War, and as the leader of his Uhlans. He fought with brilliant disobedience in World War I, with savage pride in the Finnish civil war. He spent 21 years building a courageous Finnish Army, 3½ months leading it in a death struggle. When such a man must address his troops in defeat, they may expect memorable words. Last week the hardbitten, tired old soldier ad dressed...
...Soldiers of the glorious Finnish Army: "Peace has been concluded between our country and the Soviet Union, an exact ing peace which has ceded to Russia nearly every battlefield on which you have shed your blood on behalf of every thing we hold dear and sacred...
...thank the Finnish Army in all its branches, which in noble competition have done heroic deeds since the first...