HELP FOR FINNS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 87, 6 January 1940, Page 11

HELP FOR FINNS

Arrival Of 400 American Planes (Received January 5, 11 p.m.) LONDON, January 4. , ' The Olympic Committee is appealing to sportsmen throughout the world for practical help for Finland, states a message from Helsinki. It states that Fekka Nieme at present leads a ski patrol and the swimmer Borg is serving in the army. Paris radio announced that 400 American planes and American pilots reached Finland this month. A message from Oslo stales that Finland ordered 300 ski sledges, io which Norway is adding 200 as a gift. Five hundred Polish pilots are seeking permission to organize an air force to aid Finland, states a Paris message. News of further aid for Finland has come from Stockholm. Sixty thousand Swedes have agreed to work next Saturday, which is a public holiday in Sweden, and to give their day’s earnings to Finland. The sum raised in this way is expected to exceed £35,000. Fifteen pro-Finnish organizations have been set up in Stockholm, and Swedish newspapers continue to publish appeals for help for Finland in the form, of money, manpower and clothes. A Copenhagen business man, who prefers to remain anonymous, is reported to have ordered 50 ears and heavy lorries to be sent to Finland for conversion into ambulances. —By radio.