HELSINKI AWAITING AIR ATTACK ON GREAT SCALE
Finns Resisting Strongly on Fighting Fronts LIMITED ADVANCES MADE BY RUSSIANS HEAVY LOSSES IN CROSSING FROZEN LAKES (By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, December 4. Helsinki is steeling’ itself against a renewal of aerial attack following the dropping of Russian leaflets yesterday threatening that planes will raze the city unless Finland capitulates. The “Daily Telegraph’s’’ Helsinki correspondent reports that the leaflets threaten an intensive bombardment today from 500 Russian planes stationed on the Estonian coast. The Finnish people, however, have been heartened by the excellent performances of their small but efficient air force, which has been augmented in the last few days by the arrival of 50 Italian planes which were ordered before the war. Under a Government order, Helsinki and the other cities and towns in southern Finland have been largely evacuated. The “Daily Telegraph’s’’ Moscow correspondent says the Red Army has been ordered to secure a victory by December 21, which is M. Stalin’s sixtieth birthday.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1939, Page 5
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