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...news came from Washington yesterday for William J. Parker '43, latest undergraduate volunteer for the Finnish Army...
...March issue of the "Open Road for Boys," Jaakko Mikkola, Crimson track coach, has written an article entitled "Sons of Finland." He discusses the role of the Finnish youth in peace as well as in war, and presents interesting sidelights on his daily life...
Into its fourth week went the battle of Viipuri and Finland's second city was now in the battle line. Finnish artillery, wheeled back from the main positions of the Mannerheim Line, spat at the Russians over the heads of Viipuri's defenders. Behind Karelia's beleaguered capital, along the 30-mile stretch of lakes and canals between Lake Saimaa and the Gulf of Finland, other workers were building new defenses. Few people doubted that if Viipuri fell Finland would still fight...
...left, the attack beat against the Finns' right flank guarding the Gulf and the fortress of Koivisto. Over the clean new snow, waves of Russians crouching behind their tanks swarmed over the Finns' weakened positions. Above the fog 200 Russian pursuit planes circled to keep off Finnish aircraft. On the 21st day of battle the Russians reached the Gulf. Koivisto was isolated...
...Duke of Wellington's siege of San Sebastian in 1813. Ajax No. 5 (Nos. 4 & 6 played no part in history) was a wooden, 60-gun, steam ship of the line. She took part in the bombardment of Bomarsund Fortress in the Aland Islands (then Russian, now Finnish) in 1854 ("Crimean" War). Smallpox killed more British sailors there than did Russian cannon, so the British left. Ajax No. 7 was a sister of the Iron Duke. She served at Jutland, and was scrapped under the Washington Treaty...