FINNS UNITED
ABANDONMENT OF CEDED ’ AREAS < NO ACCEPTANCE OF RUSSIAN RULE. CRUSHING ANSWER TO SOVIET CLAIM. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, March 25. The proud unity of the Finnish people and their no less extraordinary discipline in the face of a humiliating peace, is being demonstrated in reports of the orderly wholesale evacuation of the ceded areas, despite the difficulties of transport and the seriousness of the already existing refugee problem.
It is reported that Hanko has been handed over to the Soviet without a single one of the many thousand inhabitants remaining to live under Russian rule. This popular movement is a crushing answer to the Soviet claim to be liberating the Finns from the Helsinki Government.
It is also reported that Finland has handed a Note to th.e League of Nations expressing her thanks for the help which the States members found themselves able to accord her in resisting aggression, and asking for League assitsance in the work of reconstruction.
A Washington message states that Finland has ordered five modern torpedo boats from the United States since she signed the treaty with Russia. She is also buying defensive armaments, apparently preparing to oppose possible further Soviet attempts to acquire Finnish territory.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1940, Page 5
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