MUNITIONS FOR FINNS
ALLIED SUPPLIES
230 BRITISH PLANES
(Received March 9, 1.15 p.m.)
PARIS, March 8. Britain has sent 230 planes to Finland, • ;
England and France have dispatched the following, of which at least twothirds have already arrived:—4os planes,.9l6 pieces of artillery, 2,500,000 shells, 5000 light machine-guns, 124 machine-guns, . 150 anti-tank rifles, 450,000 bombs, 1050 submarine mines, 10,000 anti-tank mines, and between 50,000,000 arid 60,000,000 cartridges.
France so, far has sent to Finland 175 planes, 496 guns, 400 sea mines, 5000 machine-guns, 795,000 shells, 20,000,000 cartridges, and 200,000 hand grenades.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 59, 9 March 1940, Page 13
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90MUNITIONS FOR FINNS Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 59, 9 March 1940, Page 13
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