FIRES IN HELSINKI.
CAUSED BY INCENDIARY BOMBS. RAID KILLS 200 CIVILIANS. LONDON, December 1. Helsinki to-night is ablaze with fires from incendiary bombs, which have broken the total black-out. Rescue work is progressing rapidly. The population is completely calm, although harrassed parents are frantically searching for their children.
It is believed that at least 200 were killed in a third air raid on the main railway station, which was crowded with women and children preparing to evacuate the capital. Wiipuri is also burning in several parts, and air-raid sirens were sounded in Turku, Finland’s second largest city, as the roar of high-flying aeroplanes was detected. The Government announced that it was remaining in the capital to fight with the people. Twenty buildings were still ablaze in Helsinki at midnight. . All trains are jammed and a vast pilgrimage on foot is in progress to the snow-covered woods,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 45, 2 December 1939, Page 5
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