FINNS’ UNIQUE ARMY
100,000 MEN ON SKIS SYDNEY, Oct. 25. Dr. Halliday Sutherland, author of the best-selling books, “Arches of the Years” and “A Time to Keep,” has travelled extensively in Finland, and has recorded his impressions of that country in a recent book, “Lapland Journey."
“The Finns,” he said yesterday, “re-1 gard the Russians at barbarians, or j worse, and until the last able-bodied J Finn is shot, Finland will never submit to Russian domination. “Finland has a highly trained, mobile army of 100,000 (it men. It is an army on skis. Every member of this army keeps his uniform in his home; nearby, liiis rifle and, ammunition are attached to his skis. "The army can be called to action instantly by wireless. “I,have watched Finland's army at work. Every Sunday, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., the forests resound with the reports of rifle shots. The men in the army devote this time to war practice. They are deadly shots.” Dr. Sutherland said that everywhere he went in Finland he found a warm friendship for Britain. Germany was feared and distrusted.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 4 November 1939, Page 6
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