A TREMENDOUS TASK
REHABILITATION
HOMES AND OCCUPA-
TIONS
ORGANISING OF EVACUATION
(Received March tls, 12.50- p.m.) HELSINKI, March 14. A hundred men, women, and children started by foot, car, lorry, and train to cross the new boundaries to strange homes in what remains of their Fatherland. Their homes are now in Russia, but none of them wished to live under Bolshevik rule. They took cattle, pigs, horses, and such belongings as they could gather. The Government faces a tremendous task in attempting to move as much property as possible and to find new permanent homes and livelihoods for 470,000 evacuees from the ceded areas, most of which had already been evacuated owing to the war. A further 140,000 evacuees must return to their
homes when bomb damage is repaired, sixty thousand cattle must also be moved from the vicinity .of Lake Ladoga and from the Isthmus of Koivisto. The Minister who is organising the evacuation said that they would try to keep neighbours and communities together, but there were grave social problems ahead. All available rolling stock is being sent to south-east Finland, all cars have been requisitioned, and all drivers called up. The army is to move back at the rate of 4£ miles a day.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 64, 15 March 1940, Page 7
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207A TREMENDOUS TASK Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 64, 15 March 1940, Page 7
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