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...Army patrols are well equipped with two automatic rifles, two telescopic-sighted rifles, one machine gun and five hand grenades for every ten men. Said the Finnish Commander: "So far the best equipment and ammunition we have got from any foreign power is from Russia, and we generously give it back, but in a different...
...week the Russian artillery pounded against the Finns' positions. For several miles behind the Finnish lines the frozen earth was ploughed by the Russian guns. The bombardment was so nerve-breaking that even the tough-nerved Finnish soldiers could stand it for only a week at a time before being relieved...
Back in 1788, when the Finns were helping Sweden to fight the Russians, a Finnish woman named Lotta Svärd went to war along with her husband, and, after he was killed, stayed with the Army, cooking for the soldiers and nursing the wounded. What made Lotta a two-time Molly Pitcher was the fact that in 1808, when Russia overran Finland, she volunteered again and served throughout...
Head of the Lottas is a ruggedly hand some, grey-haired, energetic woman named Fanni Luukkonen. Long a temperance worker and schoolteacher, she has traveled widely, has interested herself in national defense, is a member of the board which assembles and publishes official Finnish documents...
Last week Finnish Commander in Chief Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim announced that three Lottas, Lissa Uurasmaa on the Arctic front, Julia Shemeikka and Julia Nerkuu on the Eastern front, had "remained faithfully at their dangerous posts and are the first Lottas to be killed in action." Said he: "In the name of the Army we pay tribute to their memory...