Nazi Force Lands in Finland

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 103, 2 May 1941, Page 8

Nazi Force Lands in Finland

GERMANS CLAIM SOVIET WAS INFORMED MOSCOW, April 30. The newspaper Pravda says it is reliably reported from Tallin, Estonia, that 12,000 German troops, equipped with tanks and artillery, and carried in four transports, landed at Abo (Turku), in SouthWest Finland, on April 26. and proceeded to Tampere (Tammerfors), farther north, two days later. Pravda’s report _ brought a semlv official statement from Helsingfors that “1300 Germans passed through Finland. The Moscow figures beat all records for exaggeration.” Official circles in Ldndon declared that they had no confirmation of the landing of Germans in Finland, but, according to the Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press, German sources assert that the Soviet has long been aware that feerman troops have been going' northward via Finland and that the latest landing was quite regular. The Swiss News Agency’s correspondent at Helsingfors, the Finnish capital, says that officials deny reports of joint German-Finnish manoeuvres in Finland. The official German Army newspaper for the first time since the signing ol the Russian-German treaty, reminds its readers: “Never forget that Hitler was the first to take up the fight against the Bolshevist terror regime.”