BITTER COLD FORCES REDS TO RETIRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 5

BITTER COLD FORCES REDS TO RETIRE

SERIOUS FOOD SHORTAGE FINNS REPORT MINOR SUCCESSES DEFENDERS FALLING BACK ON SOUTH FRONT j ' (By Telfigi’aph—Precs Association Copyright) i .lieeeived .l;in. IS. 9.33 p.m. HELSINKI, Jam 17. Bitter cold and lack of fuel and provisions has forced the retirement of a large detachment of Russian troops near ! Sala, and it is reported that the food shortage was so great that the troops were forced to kill and eat their horses. I’ll'- J-inns, before the cold immobilised aelivilivs. iwap. I .lured Kursu, on the road Io Kemittrask. ,\ l-'innis'i comniuniqtie records successful fighting here. The Russians gained slightly on the .--.ouili iron:, vL■ l e Einn.s are falling back to prepared positions in good order The l-'inns were successful near Kilcla. where the |.'iws ; ai s i-etreated, abandoning several guns ami fast tanks. Th,, l-'mns I announce having routed an enemy- eompam- imrih-iast of I,ah.. Ladoga, killing men, destroying two tanks, ami eapliirini: lOH rifles. They also shot down an aeroplane, the occupants of ~ which possesed maps of Sweden. The Russian High Command officially aiimHim-cd that reporis that the Red air force bombed the working-class ipi.-irters in Helsinki are untrue. It never Ims and nevm- i|| 1,,,m1, J ! much less the workine-class quarters.