CHAOS ON RUSSIAN LINES OF RETREAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1940, Page 5

CHAOS ON RUSSIAN LINES OF RETREAT

Forests Full of Snow-covered Corpses FINNS FIGHTING ON TEN FRONTS PROBLEM OF EXHAUSTING AMMUNITION SUPPLIES (By Telegraph,—Press Association. —Copyright.) , LONDON, January 3. The conditions in the Soviet lines of retreat are becoming' chaotic, while the ruin of the overthrown armies oilers a ghast 3 .spectacle, says the “Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent at Ihe front, dealing with the aftermath of the. battle ol To La, pin He says that countless Russian dead are lying as ther Hl beneath newlv-fallen snow. Shattered tanks and lorries and heaps of debris are found all along the battlefield s mam arterj leading to Lake Algajarvi. There the hillside forests are full of snow-covered corpses, wiped out by machine-guns - . gas masks. There must have been many 1 innish dead, but those have already been removed for burial. . The correspondent of the. Associated Press 0 Great Lritain at Kiantajarvi says that, all that, remains of the 11,000 men comprising the division trapped at Iviantajarvi are -000 wan- ’ derers in the forests and snowdrifts where Finns mounted on skis, relentlessly pursue them.