RUSSIAN BARBARITIES
ALLEGATIONS BY FINN GOVERNMENT
POISON GAS AND EXPLOSIVE BULLETS OVERTURES FOR PEACE HAUGHTILY REJECTED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Feb. 15, 2 p.m.) HELSINKI, February 14 The Foreign Minister is sending a Note to all forejgn Governments detailing the alleged Russian violations of international conventions on the conduct of war, including the use of poison gas and explosive bullets against civilians, the terrorisation of open towns, the bombing of hospitals, and the use of prisoners of war and civilians as shields for the Soviet infantry. The Note states that Finland has not taken reprisal* because she does not want to make the chances of peace difficult. The Note emphasises Finland’s repeated overtures for the establishment of a just peace and the Russians’ haughty rejection of them. Furious fighting continue' along the Mannerheim Line. The situation at Summa is still serious. The Finns are holding all vital points. Forty planes dropped 250 bombs on Porvoo yesterday, destroying fifteen buildings and damaging scores of others.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21039, 15 February 1940, Page 7
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