WOMEN FIGHT AIRMEN
AXES AND PITCHFORKS THREE RUSSIANS KILLED LONDON, Dec. 3. A pitched battle, in which Finnish peasant women killed three armed Russian airmen, is reported from the province of Antrea, Finland. The Russians were forced down in an abandoned aeroplane field. Boys playing near by warned the township, which was inhabited only by women and children. They surrounded the flyers with improvised weapons—shovels, axes, pitchforks and shotguns—and demanding the surrender of the airmen;
The Russians opened Are on the crowd, which then attacked and killed the airmen
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20122, 16 December 1939, Page 14
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