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...Isthmus just north of Leningrad, a Russian artillery barrage and tank attack preceded the infantry advance. Unlike the Poles,*the Finns were ready with anti-tank guns and heavier field artillery. They claimed to have smashed up 54 juggernauts in five days as they fell back on their fortified Mannerheim Line. At Terijoki, seat of the new Red puppet Finnish "Government" (see p. 26), they left land mines which they claimed blew up thousands of Russians...
Estimates were lacking on the number of men Russia was ready to hurl against the Mannerheim Line and the other three points of resistance, but the first few days' fighting sounded more like regiments than divisions, a series of holding attacks to fix the defenders in positions, set them up for more crushing blows. The Finns said 40,000 of their men were standing off 80,000 Russians. Except at the Mannerheim Line, which the Salmi and Suojärvi attacks were evidently calculated to outflank, Finnish tactics were guerrilla retreat, using forests and lakes (not yet frozen solid...
...march to the North Sea, evinced great sympathy, mobilized men on their eastern borders, but were accounted unlikely to fight. Answer to the first question seemed to reside in the iron-hard souls and bodies of the Finns. Their Commander in Chief, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, struck their battle note as follows...
Fiction. The frontier incident was news to the Finnish Government. Border outposts were telephoned; the only noise reported on the frontier was that of Russian soldiers practicing trench-mortar firing and hand-grenade throwing. President of Finland's National Defense Council Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim toured the border that day and heard of no firing. A Finnish Government spokesman concluded that the entire incident was "completely untrue." At Helsinki the Government had no intention of ordering troops to retire from a frontier fairly jammed with Red Army contingents. To withdraw from back of their fortified line would...
Every Finn looked not so much to General Osterman as to the greatest of living Finnish commanders, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, 72, now National Defense Council President, who remained quietly at Helsinki. In the sporadic fighting between the Finnish Army and the Red Army in the months just after the Russian Revolution Baron Mannerheim "saved Finland," and for a time he was Regent when it was not yet sure that the country would become a Republic. In the 19th Century Finland was a Grand Duchy with the Tsar of Russia as its Grand Duke...