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...battered its way into Viipuri. Craftily the Finns fought their retreating battle, leaving small rear-guard detachments to hold up the advance while their main force fell back in good order. A ruined town makes the best of all fortifications, and as the Russians entered the outskirts of Viipuri, Finnish machine guns spat tellingly from the gaping windows of the all-but-demolished houses. The invaders had to occupy Viipuri block by burning block...
...line of low glacial hills running from the shore of Lake Saimaa to Hamina on the Gulf. Along this line the Finns were expected to make their next stand. The eastern end of the Mannerheim Line would eventually have to be abandoned also, with that part of the Finnish Army probably retreating to join the forces north of Lake Laatokka. Apparently the Finns hoped, by thus splitting their Isthmus army, to harass the Russian rear with guerrilla tactics, keep the Russians too busy to organize a drive on Helsinki before spring...
Though there was no sign of a Finnish collapse, not even the Finns could deny that they had suffered a bitter defeat. The Russians had rounded the bend of the Isthmus, were only 150 miles from Helsinki. Before them lay, not a carefully built line of fortifications, but a series of makeshift positions, with half an army to defend them. And while spring's thaw would make the going tougher for the Russians, it would also thaw out their frozen northern army, bring better bombing weather. As if to give the Finns a taste of what is in store...
...Finns could get them from abroad. Against the 10,000 volunteers who have joined the Finns, at least 17,000 Finns have been killed in the battle of Viipuri. The Russians claim to have shot down 191 airplanes since Feb. 11th. This was 41 more than the entire Finnish Air Force at the beginning of the war. And that drive has netted the Russians a great store of small arms. As if to counteract these losses the Finns last week routed the 34th Tank Brigade north of Lake Laatokka, captured 105 tanks, twelve armored cars, six guns, 200 trucks, left...
...Emperor. Fanatically religious, she went to church five times a day, and entrusted Otto's education to three Benedictine monks. Because he might one day rule over many lands, she made him learn many tongues: Hungarian, German, French, English, Spanish, Basque, Croatian, Czech, and "300 words of Finnish." When Otto was ready for a university, his whole family moved to Belgium so he could attend Louvain. Otto learned to live with the austerity of his great granduncle Franz Josef-in a two-room suite like Franz Josef's at Schönbrunn, with books, a table, chairs...