SOVIET AND FINLAND

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 266, 1 December 1939, Page 3

SOVIET AND FINLAND

THE FINNISH ARMY MOBILISATION RBI’ORTB I > ALLEGED FRONTIER CROSSING REPORT DENIED BY FINNS LONDON, Nov. 29. An unconfirmed report states that the general mobilisation of the Finnish Army lias been ordered. Towns have been blacked out. While again denying Finnish trespass on Soviet soil, an official communique issued in Helsinki states that a patrol of six Finnish soldiers sent- to investigate a “mysterious noise” at Pet.same- on. Tuosdki.v, failed to return. The Moscow correspondent of The Times says that in a Soviet radio broadcast, it was alleged that five Finnish soldiers crossed the frontier and fired oil a Soviet- detatchment. The Soviet troops replied, killing two and took prisoner three. A report from Helsinki says that the Finnish military authorities denied the Russian, radio report that J innish soldiers attempted to cross the Soviet Iron tier. The radio- in .Moscow abandoned the usual musical programme to describe the angry mass meetings held throughout. the Soviet alter the denunciation of the R-usso-Finnislt non-aggression pact. The announcer read resolutions passed by factory workers, garrison soldiers and others describing the Finns as “dirty dogs,” "Awns,” and even mure expressive and iusultjng names.