Red Army Checked

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 304, 26 December 1939, Page 7

Red Army Checked

FINNS RESIST

Heavy Soviet Losses In Three Weeks Of War

DRIVEN TO BATTLE

(United Press Association.—Copyright.— Rec. 11.30 a.m.) HELSINKI, December 24. An official statement summing up three weeks of war states: *"?" aie eno [ m ? us - We UP and scattered entire r.k7n« fire of IFTF'a wh,ch ~ eT L e mercilessly driven into the over 200 tanlc A fei ' de ™; We have destroyed and captured ° tanks : =!, 0 "n8 of planes, dozens of guns and hundreds of machine-guns. Our losses are comparatively slight. breale T «ur d U f B,a " 8 k ave , rCpe f l * dly and violently attempted to break our defences, but have failed everywhere. Enemy pressure aMinTwK- 'k »k 6 £ oinrto - L a kitela Hne. north from Lake Ladoga. kflUd f ÜBB, r nB h ? Ve concentrated vainly. The Russians killed hundreds of c.vi tans m the first day of the war—slaughter which steeled the peoples will and power to resist. SundJv h !^ USB - an !. a L ta n ked tHe CCntre ° f the Mannerheim Line on fhe «te of 200 * ! T & a ? ctor ' wo long for an hour at broke undJr tk r? ,n V 5' n , about 900 men rushed forward, but broke under the Finnish fire, leaving 300 dead.