WIBORG BLOTTED OUT
HEROIC LAST STAND BY
RUSSIANS
LONDON, September 6,
A special correspondent of the "New York Times" who was. permitted to enter Wiborg with the Finnish forces says that of the city of 120,000 people nothing whatever remains. It was blasted to ruins by the Russians before they withdrew.
They left one-man fox holes where Red volunteers made a last stand. They could not be ferreted out by ordinary means, and had to be blasted out by heavy artillery. Death rained upon those defenders till long after the last of them had died in a veritable hell of bombardment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1941, Page 7
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