RUSSIAN LOSSES
TANKS-PLANES KARELIAN BLIZZARD CHECK TO FIGHTING SALVATIONIST KILLED BOMBING OF SLUMS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press 'Assn.) (Reed. Jan. 4, 2.50 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 3. A semi-official Finnish news agency in Helsinki states that the Russians lost 400 tanks and 150 planes during December. A blizzard continues to sweep the Karelian Isthmus, immobilising the Russian offensive against the Manncrheim Line. The Finns have now smashed five of 12 Russian thrusts between Lake Ladoga and the Arctic and have established a better strategic position along the frontier than at any time since the outbreak of hostilities. Scattered Russians on the isthmus front are digging trenches and the conflict in that area is developing into trench warfare. The London authorities of the Salvation Army have announced that one woman Salvationist was killed and three seriously injured when the Russians bombed a slum post in Wasa. WIN AT ANY COST ORDER TO RUSSIANS (Reed. Jan. 4, 2.50 p.m.) ROME, Jan. 3. A radio broadcast stated that M. Stalin has ordered Red Army leaders to spare neither men nor materials in a new effort to crush the Finns.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20137, 5 January 1940, Page 11
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