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...armistice lay one hour ahead. A private soldier, when he heard, echoed the Helsinki carpenter: "So at last, they have had enough?" The Finnish Air Force ceased flying, though Russian planes kept the air until 11 o'clock, one of their last bombs hitting the statue in Hanko which commemorates Germany's help in liberating Finland from Red Russia...
...reaching in character than those presented last autumn." Paris-Soir printed rumored Russian demands as telephoned from Stockholm: 1) the whole Karelian Isthmus, including Viipuri; 2) all territory northeast of Lake Laatokka, including Sortavala; 3) the northern part of Finnish Lapland, including Petsamo; 4) a naval base at Hanko, plus the whole Hanko peninsula. The demands were said to have been presented in the form of a 24-hour ultimatum. For that piece of reportage, no correspondents were permitted to telephone anything out of Stockholm for 24 hours...
These terms were indeed stiffer than the pre-war demands. Before the war Russia asked only enough of Karelia to put Leningrad out of Finnish artillery range; she said nothing about the Laatokka region, which controls the biggest lake in Europe; and all she wanted was to lease Hanko. Said Foreign Minister Vaino Alfred Tanner, who made quite a name for himself as a phrasemaker as the week wore on: "There is no reason for the Finnish Government to occupy itself with mere talk. Let those talk who like to talk." Across the Baltic in Stockholm, Dr. Juho Paasikivi...
...that modified terms had been agreed upon in Moscow-strangely in the United States Embassy-and that the Finnish delegation was on its way home to win Parliamentary approval. The new demands were said to be considerably easier: Viipuri, Sortavala, and Petsamo would not be taken; and instead of Hanko, Uto (halfway between Hanko and the Aland Islands) would do for a naval base; the Terijoki Government would be abandoned...
...give the Finns a taste of what is in store for them-possibly in hope of cracking their morale-the Russian air force last week made a clean sweep of the south of Finland, sparing only Helsinki, killed and wounded hundreds of civilians in Hamina, Kotka, Hanko, Turku, Lahti, Riihimaki, Kouvola, Tampere, Porvoo, Karjaa...