HOSPITALS BOMBED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23599, 7 March 1940, Page 9

HOSPITALS BOMBED

SOVIET AIKCRAFT 14 PATIENTS KILLED 50 DEAD IN SMALL TOWN B,\ Telrjrrnph—Press Association —Copyright (Received March 7, 1 a.m.) LONDON, March 6 More heavy air raids were carried out in Finland by Russian aeroplanes yesterday. Soviet aeroplanes bombed three Finnish hospitals, killing 14 patients and wounding seven. The roofs of the buildings were clearly marked with the Red Cross.

Fifty civilians were killed in one small town, which was severely pounded.

In one of the worst raids of the war the Red bombers swooped on the town, which is in southern Finland, and bombed the hospital five times. They made a direct hit on an air raid shelter and killed 25 women and children who were huddled there. Two hundred people were wounded.

GUNS FOR NEUTRALS UNITED STATES SURPLUS BRAZIL AND SWEDEN (Received March 0, 5.35 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March S In order to bolster up her defences, Brazil has purchased 90 Gin. guns from the Army's surplus, according to an announcement by the Secretary of War, Mr. H. H. Woodring. The guns were part of those Britain sold to the United States at the end of the Great War.

The War Department states that a similar sale to Sweden is probable shortly. To the surplus list haye been added 8000 ordinary and 66.000 anti-aircraft machine-guns, and 272 howitzers.