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...foreign agencies . . . alleged that in the battle area of Suomussalmi the 44th Soviet Division 'lost 14,000 men.'... In reality, casualties of Soviet troops there have not exceeded 900 men." (U. S. correspondents visited the scene of battle, saw bodies of Russian dead, confirmed Finnish reports of an undeniable Russian rout. The Russians have admitted a "withdrawal." The Finns have never claimed the destruction of more than 6,000 Russians.) >-"The foreign agencies allege that Finnish troops cut communications along the Murmansk railway and that this line is now 'completely paralyzed.'... In reality, the Murmansk railway...
...bull that has been bled and hurt by picadores and banderilleros charges a matador with fresh power and fury,* Russia's lumbering Army, baffled and beaten at Suomussalmi last fortnight, last week hurled itself against the Finns in another sector. Strengthened by reinforcements, a division that had dug itself in near Salla on the north-central front began moving westward, heading for Kemijärvi, which a small Russian force occupied momentarily in the first week of the war (TIME, Dec. 18). The Finns gave way. By week's end the Russians were within 13 miles of Kemij...
What happened, apparently, was that a Finnish anti-aircraft shell had caught the plane squarely and exploded its bomb load, blowing it to pieces." First detailed accounts of the tactics used by the Finns to wreck the Russian invasion at Suomussalmi reached the U. S. along with the first good pictures (see opposite page) of the battlefield. When two Russian divisions (the 163rd and 44th) occupied Suomussalmi in the early days of the war (TIME, Jan. 1), the Finns had only two companies to oppose them. The Finns, aided by their network of railways, quickly brought up reinforcements from...
...central front the Finns continued to harass their invaders, reported the recapture of Salla and the defeat of another Russian division (the 44th) near Suomussalmi. The Finns said they "destroyed" the main Russian force, captured 102 guns, 43 tanks, ten armored cars, 16 anti-aircraft cars with four guns each, 262 other cars, 75 automatic rifles, 47 field kitchens and 1,170 horses...
...44th was said to have been ambushed when it tried to come to the rescue of the 163rd division, reported "destroyed" near Suomussalmi last month. It was reported that the Finns first cut a branch line from the Murmansk railroad, upon which the 44th division depended for supplies, and then surrounded it. In the battle, the Finns claimed to have taken 1,000 prisoners. They believed that they had definitely killed for the winter's duration any chance that Russian forces might cut Finland...