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.(Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) HELSINKI,. March.. 17.
Enjoying a week-end for the first time since November 30, the smartest restaurant was crowded 'with patrons.- Popular dance-halls were invaded. Most men were, in uniform. The streets were lighted last night for the first time for months.
THE KREMLIN TALKS. (Received this day at 12 noon). . HEIiSINKir, March 17. M. Paasikivi received the Press. He. said the -Kremlin -talks were inore formal and cooler than last autumn. "Five meeting? were, held,- in which- the Russians jnalded only a few unimportant points, ®it nothing-on the points which the Figs M. Mhlotov, when the questiofi of Allied help cropped up said: —“We aite not afraid of Britain or France.”
SOVIET DEFENCE. (Received this day at 12.45 p.m.) HELSINKI. March 17. According to a report from Moscow, the Soviet, fearing a general outbreak of war. proposed to build as quickly as possible, a Voroshilov line of defence along the new lluss'ianFinnisli. -frontier.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1940, Page 6
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