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RUSSIAN ATTACK MANNERHEIM LINE FINNISH ARMY STAND INVADERS KEPT OUT ENCIRCLEMENT PERIL DAMAGE BY PLANES (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Tress Assn.) v (Reed. Jan. 3, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 2. Messages from Helsinki state that a reorganised Russian army, under General Stern and numbering 200,000 men, launched a great frontal attack on the Mannerheim Line in a blinding blizzard, but failed.
One hundred thousand Finns, onethird of the total army, are holding the assailants at bay, despite the tactics of the Russians in pressing in simultaneously on both wings and the centre in the hope of preventing the Finns transferring reinforcements to threatened points. The Finns shot down seven Russian planes. Meanwhile the Finns are moving swiftly on the Kuolojarvi front and threaten to encircle and annihilate 10,000 Russians. A Copenhagen message quotes an unconfirmed report that the Finns cut off .10,000 Russians from their bases at Petsamo and Murmansk after defeating the invaders at Nikkelby, a mining centre of the Petsamo area. Aeroplanes damaged 50 Finnish towns, mostly militarily insignificant.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20136, 4 January 1940, Page 11
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