KARELIAN STRUGGLE

Grey River Argus, 18 January 1940, Page 7

KARELIAN STRUGGLE

FINNISH ARTILLERY Makes Good Practice [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] HELSINKI, January 16. A thousand bombs and over’ a thousand heavy shells struck Bjorko, which is the site of the Finnish heavy naval guns guarding the right wing of the Mannerheim Line. i Fighting on the Karelian ..Isthmus was confined to artillery activity. The Finns destroyed the Soviet field headquarters, wiped out two patrols, totalhng eighty men, and halted two Soviet battalions, which were attacking the Isthmus, and. disrupted the supply arid mechanised columns.

FINNS BOMB ENEMY TROOPS.

RUSSIAN SPIES CAUGHT.

(Received J'anuary 17, 7 p.m.) HELSINKI, January 16. A Finnish communique states: — Forces of seventy to eighty Russian planes bombarded the interior towns of Finland to-day. Finnish airmen to-day bombed enemy troops. The Finnish Government has conducted a counter-espionage campaign. This has resulted in the execution of a number of Russian agents. The German Commercial Attache at Helsinki has resigned in order to join the Finnish Army. ALL OPERATIONS. HELD UP BY THE COLD. (Received January 18, 1.43 a.m.) t HELSINKI, January 17. The cold has virtually brought to a standstill the military operations, and has also paralysed naval operations. Soviet Report FINNISH LOSSES IN ATTEMPT TO RECONNOITRE (Received January 18, 1.43 a.m.) LONDON, January 17. A Leningrad communique states: There have been scouting activities at Murmansk and Gregoriev, and clashes of infantry units at Petrozavodsk. There has been minor artillery lire on the Karelian Isthmus. Our patrols have repulsed an enemy attempt to launch reconnoitring operations on a wide front. The enemy suffered great losses. “Our aircraft has made reconnaissances, and has bombed railway junctions and military objectives.

Swedish Papers ADVERTISE FOR RECRUITS FOR FINLAND. (Received January 17, 10 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, January 17. Large advertisements have appeared in the Swedish press calling on young Swedes to volunteer for service in Finland. BRITISH SOVEREIGNS SUPPORT FINLAND. (Received January 17, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 16; Their Majesties and Queen Mary have contributed to the Finnish fund, ed loans be made through the exportimport Bank, a reconstruction of the Finance Corporation. RELEASED CAPTAINS. LONDON, January 16. British' captains from the Graf Spee arrived at Tilbury, and have gone to London under military orders.

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