LANDING IN FINLAND
12,000 GERMAN TROOPS REPORTS FROM RUSSIA NO JOINT MANOEUVRES (United Press Assi .--Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received May 1, 11 a.m.) MOSCOW. April 30 The Pravda says it is reliably reported from Tallin that 12,000 German troops, equipped with tanks and : artillery, aboard four transports, landed at Abo (Turku), in Finland, on April 26, and proceeded to Tampere on April 28. RUGBY, April 30 Official circles in London declared that there is no confirmation of the landing of Germans in Finland, but according to the Moscow correspondent of the American Press German sources assert that the Soviet has long been aware of German troops going northward via Finland, and the latest landing is quite regular. The Swiss Agency Helsinki correspondent says officials deny reports of joint German-Finnish manoeuvres in Finland.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21409, 1 May 1941, Page 7
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