ITALIANS EAGER TO FIGHT RUSSIANS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 289, 7 December 1939, Page 7

ITALIANS EAGER TO FIGHT RUSSIANS

' NEW INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE

FASCIST AVIATORS FLYING FINLAND’S NEW PLANES

STUDENTS PETITION AMBASSADOR

[By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] Received Dec. 6, 10.20 p.m. NEW YORK, Dee. 5. The New York Times Rome correspondent states that hundreds of students have petitioned the Finnish Ambassador for permission to fight the Russians. Italians are reported to be flying the Italian planes recently sold to Finland. It seems that another international brigade is being formed, this time against Communism. The Government is not acting officially hut apparently is not objecting to Italians volunteering. Undoubted/ thousands of Italians would spontaneously- volunteer.

FINNS CAPTURE SIXTY-FOUR TANKS

SUCCESSFUL RECONNAISSANCE 1 FLIGHTS

Received Dec. 6, 11.5 p m. LONDON, Dec. 6. A Finnish communique says l hat 64 Russian tanks were captured and 200() Russians killed in a single fight. Finnish reconnaissance flights have been successful, although two planes have been shot down. The Russians are using dum-dum bullets. Leningrad discounts the Finnish claims, admitting the loss of four aeroplanes but no tanks. It is reported from Berlin that Germany is not intervening in the Russian-Finnish dispute. The Times’ .Moscow correspondent, is of opinion that the Finnish campaign will cost Russia 15,000 dead. A Copenhagen message says that the Russians occupied Kuolajarvi, according to the National Tidende’s Helsinki correspondent, as a result of which military authorities are of opinion that the move marks the beginning of a new Russian offensive designed to cut Finland in two.