HELP NEEDED FOR FINNS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22936, 5 February 1940, Page 7

HELP NEEDED FOR FINNS

BRITISH NEWSPAPER COMMENT (BRITISH OIHCUI -WIRELESS.) RUGBY, February 3. The need for help for the Finns is the subject of British newspaper comment. The “Daily Herald” says: “If heroism and national Will power can save a small nation, Finland will be saved, but hoW long can .even these stout virtues hold out almost unaided against unreasonably superior numbers?” The “News-Chronicle’s” comment Is expressed in the headline “Finland must not lose.” ... The special correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says; “If the civil morale is to be maintained there must be more aircraft to fight off the Russian raiders. Also the Finnish army, which has been continuously on a tactical offensive under the most arduous conditions since the beginning of September, must be given a rest,” ■, . Prominence is given to an interview at Helsinki in Which Sir Walter Citrine, leader of the British Labour delegation to Finland, paid eloquent tribute to the magnificent stand made by the Finns, but emphasised the urgent need for help, adding that a continuance of all possible assistance from Britain could be looked for. Sir Walter Citrine also remarked on the difference between the damage done by RusSiatt bombers to workers’ quarters and to mill--tary objectives—the former suffering most as a result of indiscriminate bombing from a great height intended to demoralise the civilian population.