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...Russian casualties mounted. The Finns, too, left many dead, but the Russian push was so disorganized that the Finns began to talk of the battle as the "biggest victory" of the war. Foreigners in Helsinki, who had doubted that the Finns could resist a determined drive to flank the Mannerheim Line, were amazed at the strength of the Finnish mobile defense. To the Finns it was just another example of the efficacy of their Commander in Chief's standing order to his Army: "Hit them in the belly." Well does Field Marshal Mannerheim know that supply is Russia...
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim has been preparing for war against Russia ever since his Government refused to let him lead a Finnish White Army against Petrograd in 1918. To his implacable hatred of everything Red may be attributed some of Stalin's nervousness over the security of the U. S. S. R., which was a remote cause of the present Russo-Finnish war. To it Finland certainly owes her continued independence, for the defense tactics that have so amazed the Russians and the world were planned long before Russia invaded Finland last fall. And the man who planned...
What Became of Gustaf. Baron Mannerheim has almost nothing in common with the average Finn except a highly developed individualism. The Finns came to their country from east of the Volga. They were trappers, woodsmen and farmers, people who never had much and could take a lot of punishment, who, though their country has been ruled by both Sweden and Russia, were never subdued by anybody. The first Mannerheim of record was a Swedish merchant named Marheim, of Dutch or German descent, who died in 1667. His grandson picked up a title and his son, who was named Carl Erik...
...Nikolaev Cavalry School in Russia proper and came out a second lieutenant in 1889, aged 22. Two years later he wangled a transfer to the Tsar's Chevalier Guard. After his marriage to Anastasia, daughter of Major General Nikolai Arapov of the Tsar's suite, Lieutenant Mannerheim's advance was rapid. He became a first lieutenant in 1893, a second captain in 1899, a captain of cavalry in 1901. In 1904 he went off to fight in the Russo-Japanese War as a lieutenant colonel of dragoons, returned two years later a colonel with three decorations. Meanwhile...
...Colonel Mannerheim was marked as a coming man in the service of the Tsar. That year he was picked to head a sort of glorified spying expedition through Asia to Peking. Purpose of the trip was to learn how hostile mandarins and officials had accepted the outcome of the Russo-Japanese War, to pick up useful military data for possible future use. The Mannerheim party traveled 8,750 miles on horseback, lost two Cossacks from the hardships of the journey, had many adventures. Colonel Mannerheim kept the Dalai Lama waiting to receive him while he carefully shaved and dressed, made...