RUSSIAN ATTACKS
FIVE DAYS' BATTLE yERY COSTLY ACTION
EFFORTS TO DEMORALISE THE FINNS
(Daventry Broadcast.) LONDON, Friday Night.
Tonight's Finnish communique says that all Soviet attacks north-east of Eake Ladoga have been thrown back with very great cost to the Russians. The Russians attacked yesterday along the ice of one lake and on a river in the Karelian Isthmus. There hqs been patrol activity on the central front.
The Russian attempts to batter through on the flank of the Finnish defence are apparently still going oh, but are now reported to be slowing down after five days' fighting. Sir falter Citrine and other members of the British National Council of Labour, who are investigating war conditions in Finland, reached Helsinki yesterday. Judging from the* air-raid damage seen, it seems certain, Sir Walter states, that the Russian bombers concentrated mainly on demoralising the civil population.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 23, 27 January 1940, Page 13
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