SANGUINARY ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1939, Page 8

SANGUINARY ATTACKS

MORE INTENSE CONFLICT IN FINLAND RUSSIANS PRESSING CENTRAL THRUST. REINFORCEMENTS ON BOTH SIDES. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 1 p.m.) LONDON, December 10. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Helsinki correspondent says that while indefcisive but sanguinary attacks have occurred in the southern sectors in Finland, the Russians have continued their push in the two hundred mile central sector, whose objective is OulouThe Finns are rushing reinforcements to Oulou and thence to the front, where there are 10 degrees centigrade of frost. The Russians also are rushing up reinforcements to meet strong Finnish counter-attacks.

FINNISH MINISTER ARRIVAL IN BERLIN FROM MOSCOW. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, December 10. The Finnish Minister to Moscow, with his family, has arrived in Berlin. VIOLENT FIGHTING REPORTED BY THE FINNS. AIR FORCE DESTROYS TANK COLUMN. (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) HELSINKI. December 10. A communique says: “The Taibela attacks continue to be repulsed. Violent fighting has occurred on, all fronts, except Petsamo. The Russians bombed some coastal islands. The Finnish Air Force destroyed a moving column of tanks and armoured cars.”

POISON GAS ALLEGED USE BY SOVIET FORCES. REPORTS BY CORRESPONDENTS. (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) STOCKHOLM. December 10. The Finnish Government claims that 25.000 Russians were killed in the first week of the war and says the Russians used mustard gas north of Lake Ladoga. The “Tidengen’s” correspondent in the Karelian Isthmus says, he saw burns on a Finnish soldier whom doctors certified had been poisoned by mustard gas on Friday. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Helsinki correspondent says the Russians are using, on several fronts, shells containing chlorine and picric acid gas.