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FAMOUS PROFESSOR A VICTIM. EVACUATION OF HELSINKI. (Received This Day, 1,35 p.m.) HELSINKI, December 1. Firemen, ambulances and officials who had been searching since dawjn for victims found 13 bodies where a direct hit demolished two apartment houses. They discovered the corpse- of Professor Sikonen, the famous electrotechnical expert, amid the ruins of the High School. Bombs went right through the highest buildings. A hundred thousand citizens departed last night. There was no sign of pacnic. A priest held a radio service and exhorted all to do their duty to their countryMeanwhile, the Hanko fortress undauntedly answers the fire from the Soviet warships. Two hundred English and American residents in Helsinki took refuge at Grankulla. A German steamer is en route to Helsinki in order to remove German and Russian residents, but all the Russians are already interned. Russian troops captured a monastery at iPetcliehga, ten miles south of Petsamo.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 45, 2 December 1939, Page 6
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