THRUST TOWARD HUNGARY

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24368, 21 September 1944, Page 5

THRUST TOWARD HUNGARY

RUSSIANS CAPTURE TIMISOARA (jtac. 7 p.m,V IXJHpbWiEWrt. Jf*, “Russian force* in western ftuiwmv operating in conjunction with JtumgU' ian troops, have captured _ and railway mnctipn oi • says a Moscow commute. i has been activity RWJ ' some local fighting on other i “Russian aeroplane* on MondMT p night msde a mass raid on B\»4apest, ! causing fires and explosion*. - . - Timisoara is about 21 frontier of Jugoslavia and a little more i than '3O miles from Hungary. . i A correspondent of the .British - United Press reporU b*rd fightw| *o® t Carpathian passes, where the Russian* [ are pushing towards Slovakia. The i Germans end Hungamns are l slowly yielding position* to Russian mountain troops. - • S remaining in Finland must be dis- ' SmSd. aSd the Finnish Mmyjeduced to the peace-time establishment, Finland is to pay Russia an indemnity of £75,000,000. spread over she y *“This is one of the hardest days in Finland’s history.’’ said von Born, speaking over the Finnish radio. we, Russia’s* neighbour, must always take reparations was only halfthe symthe Russians originally mentioned during the abortive peace talks m Stockholm last spring. “Even so, he added, sum is relatively heavier than any demand for reparations made upon any country after the last war, Th® result is not what the Finnish people dared hope in spite, of everything. Ideas of what is a just and sensible expedient differ greatly In these times, but we must stick to reality and try to build up our existence with the opportunities remaining.’’ A message from Stockholm says that apparently the Russians do not now ask for the port of Hanko, 55 mues south of Helsinki, which they secured in 1940, ... m “Within 24 hours of the signing of 1 the Finnish armistice Helsinki announced the first move to carry out 1 the armistice conditions,” *ay* R®uter’s Stockholm correspondent, ‘Residents of PorkkaU Promontory (25 miles south-west of Helsinki, and ■ directly opposite Tallinn), which x* i being leased to Russia for 50 years, • have been given evacuation inrtruc--1 tions. Swedish observers point out . that, although Porkkala is at present the northern anchorage of the German minefield closing entry into the I Gulf of Finland, there are no major : military reasons necessitating its lease. • Therefore, the Russian demand for the I area may be regarded as an expres- > cion of mistrust, as the Finns of Porki kala were not mentioned in the Soviet : conditions presented to Finland last . March. This is regarded as the price l the Finns have to pay for the Six A . months’ delay in accepting tike peace ■ i terras." ■