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...undersigned who 20 years ago was fighting for the liberty of Finland under Field Marshal Mannerheim, as a staff member of the German auxiliary force of the late General von der Goltz, takes the liberty of pointing to the fact that much could be done to relieve the fighting troops next summer by supplying them with Rubbing Flit in individual pocket containers. Worse than the cold of the winter season is the mosquito plague in the eastern lake district of Finland, which is liable to enhance the sufferings of war and even to bias the morale of the best educated...
...Paris last week Finnish Minister Dr. Harri Holma told newspapermen that unless Finland gets more help quickly Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim's army is "condemned to death." In Helsinki sturdy old President Kyosti Kallio once more offered to negotiate "an honorable peace." This was no more than Finland had been offering since the war began,* but it proved to the Finns who are getting hurt in this war that their Government is always willing to negotiate. And Minister Holma's scare talk was less a cry of desperation than a part of the Finnish campaign...
...growing Finnish strength, Russia let loose a terrific attack.Soviet bombing planes in mass formation unloaded their bombs over seaports and rail centres, killed an estimated 150 civilians in three days, and reportedly bombed Viipuri's ancient cathedral. At the same time the Soviet Army tried to storm the Mannerheim Line by a direct frontal attack...
HELSINKI--The Finnish high command tonight announced that the stonewall defenses of the Mannerheim Line are hurling back Red Army blows at four points on Lake Ladoga to the Gulf of Finland in the fiercest fighting...
...most of the quick thrusts and counter-thrusts that have so disorganized the Russians. He fought for Germany in World War I. And in charge of the Karelian Isthmus is General Harald Ohquist, who helped to design the series of positions that have come to be known as the Mannerheim Line. Finns say he knows every boulder on the isthmus. So well has he defended it against terrific frontal assaults that the Finns thought up a story about it. A Russian soldier knocks at the gates of Heaven and St. Peter opens the gates. "So you're dead...