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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20137, 5 January 1940, Page 7

PUSH CHECKED

I KARELIA BATTLE FIRE OF FINNS RUSSIANS REPULSED BREAKING OF ICE ATTACKERS ENGULFED MUNITIONS PROBLEM (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Jan. 5, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON. Jan. 4. A Helsinki message states that sweeping the frozen lakes of the Karelian Isthmus with searchlights, the Finns frustrated an attempt to outflank their positions. Artillery and machine-gun fire tore the Russian ranks and broke the ice, throwing hundreds of the attackers into the water. A Finnish communique issued yesterday stated that the Soviet gunfire on the Karelian Isthmus prefaced fierce infantry attacks which the Finnish artillery and infantry fire repulsed. Other attacks met with a similar fate. Russian Resources The Finns are fighting on eight or, including the air and sea, 10 fronts. The exhausting of ammunition and the problem of fresh supplies, ciespne captures, is serious. The Russians, on the other hand, seem to possess inexhaustible resources. The air front extends over almost the whole of Finland. The Russians employ 300 planes daily, but have achieved nothing of military importance. Finnish airmen claim to have penetrated far behind Leningrad and to have dropped millions of photographically - illustrated pamphlets showing the humane treatment of Russian prisoners Finnish pilots attacked a Russian base at Liinahamari. the port of Petsamo, apparently using fast foreign bombers. A communique issued in Moscow yesterday reported that there nao been nothing of importance in Finland and that planes merely made “reconnaissance flights.”