SOVIET DENOUNCED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1939, Page 5

SOVIET DENOUNCED

TIDE OF FEELING RISING IN SCANDINAVIA DEMONSTRATIONS IN DENMARK & SWEDEN. DI PLOM ATIC ACTIVITY IN MOSCOW. LONDON. December 3. Sympathy lor Finland and indignation against Russia is increasingly apparent in Scandinavia. Tlie Premier of Sweden. M Hanssop, today openly expressed admiration tor Finland's stand. Thousands assembled outside a Communist newspaper office in Stockholm, shouting "Down with Russia!” Crowds earlier assembled at the Finnish Legation and sang Finnish national songs. Every window of the Russian Legation in Copenhagen was smashed. A Stockholm message says it is reliably stated there is great diplomatie activity iri Moscow by Sweden, which has macle strong representations regarding the developments in the Bailie. RADIO REPORTS BOMB HAVOC IN HELSINKI. RUSSIAN WOMEN PILOTS ENGAGED. Daventr.v states that, no further bumhing of Finnish towns is reported.l although heavy tiring is reported in; the far north where the Finns are staled to have recaptured Petsamo on (he Arctic coast. The Finns have installed machine-guns in the remaining houses. Proof dial Soviet, women took part in air raids on Helsinki is given in tlie discovery of the remains of a woman in a wrecked plane. Fires are still burning in Helsinki. The shattered and blackened wails of the Polytechnic College are all that remain of that fine structure. About 300 Swedish residents of Finland have returned home. Sweden is showing its sympathy by tlie despatch of ambulances and medical supplies io Finland. About (till) recruits offered for service, in Denmark about 150 also offered for service. Tlie Swedish Government is taking precautionary military measures to cope with any situation that may arise. Germany is defending tlie action of tlie Soviet on tlie ground that it is the; natural outcome of tlie Versailles! Treaty, which tried to keep Russia out of the Baltic. I