Word: viipuri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women & children, put out the city's lights, pocked the airport and factory section, wrecked the new Technical Institute, but in two days of bombing did not succeed in impairing communications. Thermit incendiary bombs* set the west end of Helsinki ablaze. Other prime targets were the ports of Viipuri, Kotka, Hangö, Turku and Vaasa, the big power plant at Imatra, gas mask factory at Lahti. After unloading their bombs, the planes swooped to machine-gun their objectives. Finnish anti-aircraft guns and fighting planes shot down a dozen or more Red attackers, whose pilots expressed surprise. They...
Fiercest ground fighting was at Suojärvi, northern end of Finland's upper defense line in Viipuri Province (formerly Karelia). Here the Russians evidently advanced in close formation for the Finns told of shooting down two entire companies (800 men) with "machine pistols," a Chicago-type sawed-off machine gun, reputedly capable of 250 rounds per minute. A Finnish soldier, speaking over the radio, said: "I don't believe the Russians are used to us seal shooters. Compared to a seal's head in the water, they [Russians] are almost too big a target. You hardly...
Islands by which Russia could bottle up the Bothnian Sea, Finland revealed that it had laid mines-illegally, but without eliciting complaint from the only legally interested party, Sweden. Russian ships shelled Viipuri and moved out through the Gulf past Helsinki to attack Hangö, "The Baltic Gibraltar." Finland's little fleet, centred around the shallow-draft pocket-battleships Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen moved cautiously to meet them. An attempted landing was repelled at Porvoo. When the Red ships came within range, the fortress at Russarö guarding Hangö opened fire. One Soviet destroyer was reported sunk, one damaged...
...during the week children, mothers, the sick and aged were rapidly evacuated from Helsinki (see map) until this capital of 300,000 was half empty. Viipuri was also evacuated and blacked out nightly to match Helsinki, as though Soviet bombing raids were expected. A fleet of 21 Soviet planes was seen roaring over the Gulf of Finland, with Soviet warships cruising just outside Finnish territorial waters, and President Kallio promptly closed all Finnish ports in the Gulf. The entire Finnish merchant marine-Finland has the largest fleet of sailing ships of any nation-was ordered to take refuge away from...
...most important place in Finland last week was not Helsingfors (Helsinki), the capital; not the seaports of Vasa (Vaasa) or Viborg (Viipuri), but the farming village of Lapua. The Finns who speak Finnish and the Finns who speak Swedish all spoke of Lapua last week, as did all of Finland's 624 newspapers and magazines. Acute observers saw emerging from Lapua a minor Mussolini, possible Dictator of the country, by the name of Vihtori Kosola...