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...presentation of demands to Finland more far-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...
...capital of northern Europe. Last week the Marine War Museum in the Admiralty opened an exhibition depicting Russian naval history since Peter the Great, but Russia's naval history has never glowed too brightly. Comrade Zhdanov may just possibly have been thinking about a British fleet off Petsamo...
...must stop. While the grounded Altmark was refloated last week and Norway pondered whether to hand her back to Germany before getting Great Britain to agree to arbitrate the case, the Allies acted. East of the North Cape in the Arctic Ocean, off Finland's lost port of Petsamo and off Murmansk in Red Russia, an undetermined number of Allied warships let their presence be known. Ostensibly they were an extension of the North Atlantic blockade, which stretches to Iceland. They were there to prevent Germany from getting seaborne supplies from northern Russia. Perhaps also they would interfere with...
...ever-increasing quantities, Finland might turn the tide. With Russian bombs falling on the Swedish town of Pajala and Sweden approaching a crisis over help to the Finns, with Turkey growing restless on Russia's southern border, and with a part of the British fleet lying somewhere off Petsamo, Finland's fate might be decided by a hasty word or the accidental discharge...
...with the bombings came the firehose attacks, stubborn onslaughts that were wasteful of men and materials alike. From Petsamo in the far north (where the Russians tried and failed to push on to Hoyhenjarvi) down through the Salla and Suomussalmi sectors (where the Finns stopped them before they got going) and the new front at Kuhmo (where the Finns beat them back with heavy losses) to the shores of Lake Laatokka and the Karelian Isthmus, the Russians attacked simultaneously. The Finns were in their tightest spot since the war began...