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...must merely look at the estimated 4,000,000 Chinese casualties or the movement of 87 universities and 25,000 students to escape Japanese destruction," he said, "to see how much more serious this war is than the Finnish...
...Russians pushed on past Summa, heading toward Kämärä on the railroad. Hand-to-hand fighting was general throughout the isthmus, but except in the Summa wedge the Russians made no gains. Russians trying to advance over the ice toward Koivisto were blasted by the Finnish guns of that fortress. Tanks plunged through the shell-shattered ice. So fierce was the shelling that the Finns' gun-bores wore...
16th Day. The Russians reached Kämärä and hammered against the Finnish right flank that cut them off from Koivisto. Between Lake Muolaa and the Vuoksi River the Finnish lines broke. Muolaa village fell and the Russians poured into the narrow strip of land just west of Lake Muolaa. Around the north shore of the lake they pushed and, with only flat ground ahead, they soon made contact with the divisions at Kamara. This broke the back of the Mannerheim Line...
Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, carrying a black knitting bag, arrived in Kansas City to speak on fashion. "I'm knitting for the Finnish soldiers," she explained...
Although bomb detonations have shattered some windows in his villa, 20 miles from Helsinki, bald, hulking, 74-year-old Composer Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, the Finns' "national treasure," stubbornly refused to leave. Two weeks after the Russo-Finnish war began he left his Helsinki flat for the country. Said friends: "It was the noise [of daily bombings] that drove him out. He has little fear, but the noise was just too unmusical...