The War Day by Day
MONDAY February 12— The first party *of New Zealand troops after disembarking at Suez, reached camp late in the afternoon. * # # Hundreds of deaths reported from Europe as a result of the terrible cold. # «= Activity on the Western Front was held up by the extreme cold< * * * '• 1 The Finnish defenders of the Mannerheim Line reported to be withstanding a bombardment- unprecedented since 1915. Russian divisions totalled 50,000 men." ‘TUESDAY February 13- , A British cruiser reported to have sunk the German freighter Wolfsburg, of 6201 tons. A huge new Soviet army believed to be transported north from three Russian areas to the Finnish frontier. wedntssdait February 14— The Finnish lines, still intact after the heaviest concentration of fire ever seen on the 12-mile front. The -Russians . expended 300,000 shells a day for several days. ’ ,=
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Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3668, 15 February 1940, Page 4
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