INCREASINGLY ACTIVE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 22, 26 January 1940, Page 7

INCREASINGLY ACTIVE

. FINNS IN THE AIR

ITALIANS IN BOMBING RAIDS

HELSINKI, January 25. .- No fewer than 20 Italian volunteer ■ airmen participated in the bombing- ; of the Soviet naval base of Kronstadt and two of the Soviet bases in Estonia - ■ early this week. The Italians,- who . are highly trained, flew newly-arrived! : modern machines

Finland's small air force is increas* , ingly active. The most outstanding re- '' cent feat was performed by ,a pilot named Jorma, who tackled seven.1. enemy machines and shot down six." . The Finns declare that of 24 Soviet' ■ planes which left the Estonian' bases.;;.' on bombing expeditions in, the > last three days 'only three returned. The others were shot. down. ' '.-.'.

A plane laden with medical supplies has arrived in Helsinki front London. • ■

There are hundreds of young Danes . in the Finnish training camps, while 100 volunteers are leaving Denmark >. every week. Such a course is not , permissible for actual members of thaDanish forces, five officers of which -.. were arrested when about to go 1o Finland from the Kestrup aerodrome. '.{.

Six American volunteer pilots hay« reached Helsinki.-