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...Finns have something they call sisu. It is a compound of bravado and bravery, of ferocity and tenacity, of the ability to keep fighting after most people would have quit, and to fight with the will to win. The Finns translate sisu as "the Finnish spirit," but it is a much more gutful word than that...
Last week the Finns gave the world a good example of sisu by carrying the war into Russian territory on one front while on another they withstood merciless attacks by a reinforced Russian Army. In the wilderness that forms most of the Russo-Finnish frontier between Lake Laatokka and the Arctic Ocean, the Finns definitely gained the upper hand...
...week's end these white-clad raiders had not yet reached the railroad. But Finnish fliers managed to bomb it a couple of times, and there were reports of a food shortage in Murmansk...
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...
...front here is ... a vast area of forests filled with Finnish and Russian patrols who are continually meeting and dueling in the bitterest weather conditions of any war ever fought. . . . The soldiers' daily routine is one or two hours of patrol, then back to the headquarters hut where they sleep in a big room for two or three hours, then out again for an hour or two and back for four. This goes on continuously, the men never getting out of their clothes, except to take a Finnish steam-bath every couple of days, when they must undress...