RAIN OF BOMBS
CELEBRATION OF STALIN’S BIRTHDAY SAVAGE RAIDS ON FINNISH TOWNS. WORKING-CLASS DISTRICTS SUFFER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) HELSINKI, December 21. Stalin’s airmen celebrated his birthday by raining 600potind high explosive bombs on Finland’s chief southern towns, destroying two Helsinki hospitals, besides damaging three seriously and injuring patients too ill for evacuation. Raiders simultaneously bombed several towns within a twenty-five mile radius from the capital, attacked Hanko and its approaches, machine-gunned two Turku-Helsinki trains and bombed the Porvoo and Turkus working class districts, setting fire to many homes and. it is believed, killing and wounding many. They are also reported to have swooped on the important industrial centre of Tampere, with similar results. They visited Wasa, which is three hundred miles from the nearest Russian air base. Planes were very active on the Karelian Isthmus, bombing Wiipuri and also participating in the battle for the Mannerheim Line, which entered on its third week with daylong onslaughts by infantry, artillery and tanks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1939, Page 6
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166RAIN OF BOMBS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1939, Page 6
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