STAL’S ORDER

Grey River Argus, 5 January 1940, Page 7

STAL’S ORDER

TO (RUSH FINNS Blizzard flocks Red Army [Aust, ft N.Z. Cable Assn.] I ROME, January 3. The radioidedares that Stalin has ordered thqßed Army leaders to spare neith r men nor materials in the new eff rt to crush the Finns. lELSINKI, January 3. A blizzart continues to sweep the Karelian Isthmus, immobilising the Russian off hsive dgainst the Mannerheim Lint \ Tlf Finns have now smashed five (if tbfe twelve Russian thrusts betvee* 1/ake Ladoga and the Arctic,; and \ established a better strategic position (along the frontier than at any tinW since the outbreak■ I Scattered Russfcns on the Isthmus front are diggini trenches. The conflict around hen is developing : into trench Southed Offensive

AGAIN Re/uL-SED BY FINNS> [Aust. &Jn.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received January 4, 7.30 p.m. 7 LONDON, January 3. A Finnish communique slates: There has bJn Soviet'gunfire on the Kareiian Istfimus, which P re£ac e d fierce Red Irmy infantry attacks. The Finnish/? artillery and ; - mfantry fire repulse! these' attacks. Other attacks by (he Russians have met a similar fate THE (MOSCOW VERSION. j MOSCOW, January 3A Soviet communique reports: “There hi beeh nothing: of importance to | report. ; .Our ( planes have merely made reconnaissance flights. ’ 300 soviet Lanes engaged DAILY., (Received January 4, 5.5 p.m.) nONDON, January 3. In Finland tne'air/'front exienus over almost; the whole of Finland. The Russians employ .30(1 planes every day, but they have achieved nothing of military importance. FINNISH AIRMEh/RAID ENEMY TERRITORY. (Received Janusry 4, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 3. Finnish aircraft claim to have penetrated far belind Leningrad, and they have dropped within Russia millions of photographically-illustrated pamphlets, 'showing; their humane treatment of the (Russian. prisoners. Finnish pilots lhave attacked tne Russian air-base'at Liinahamari, the port of Petsamc. Apparently they have been using past foreign bombers. FINNS EXHAUSTING THEIR AMMUNITION;

(Received January 4, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 3. The Finns are fighting on no fewer than on eight,/'or including the air and the sea, on ten fronts. They are exhausting their ammunition. _£heir problem of securing fresh supplies is a serious one, despite the captures of ammunition from the Russians which have been made by .the Finns. On the other hand, the Russians seem to possess inexhaustible resources. p POOR;SOVIET EXCUSE. FOR AIR RAIDING OPEN TOWNS. (Received January 4, 7.50 p.m.) ■LONDON, January 3. The Soviet Enibassy at London charging the British Press and radio with “fantastic anti-Soviet inventions comparable to 1919.” The Embassy says that the press and radio have described in most lurid terms alleged large-scale bombardments on the open towns of Finland. It declares: ■ "This is demonstrably absurd when one compares the casualties in a single Japanese ra : d wnn all the raids with which the Soviet is accused.” RUSSIAN LOSSES. •HELSINKI, January 3. A semi-official news agency states that the Russians lost 400 tanks and 150 'planes. during December.