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RED ARMY IN FINLAND STALIN’S REPORTED INSTRUCTIONS. NEITHER MEN NOR MATERIAL TO BE SPARED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) ROME, January 3. The radio declares- that Stalin has ordered Red Army leaders to spare neither men nor materials in a new effort to crush the Finns. SALVATIONIST KILLED THREE SERIOUSLY INJURED. (Received This Day. 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 3. The Salvation Army has announced that one woman Salvationist was killed and three seriously ■ injured when Russians bombed a slum post at Wasa. RUSSIAN LOSSES FINNS SMASH FIVE THRUSTS. TRENCH WARFARE IN SOME AREAS. - (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) HELSINKI, January 3. A semi-official news agency states that the Russians lost four hundred tanks and 150 planes during December. A blizzard continues to sweep the Karelian Isthmus, immobilising the Russian offensive
against the Mannerheim Line. The Finns have now smashed five ol twelve Russian thrusts between Lake Ladoga and the Arctic and have established a better strategic position along the frontier than at any time since the outbreak of war. Scatteiec Russians on. the Isthmus front are digging trenches. The conflict around hei e is developing into trench warfaie.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1940, Page 6
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