AIR ATTACK
ON RUSSIAN NAVAL BASE LED BY ITALIAN VOLUNTEERS. MANY FIRES STARTED. A Daventry broadcast early this morning stated that Finnish planes, led by Italian volunteers, have bombed Erjo, the island taken over from Estonia by the Russians as a naval and air base. The planes succeeded in starting many fires. A Finnish reconnaissance plane later flew over the island and confirmed that fires were raging. Anti-aircraft fire met the planes, but none were damaged. Finnish planes have also been active in the far north. A big petrol dump was destroyed by bombs near Murmansk, and railways behind the Russian lines were successfully bombed. Finnish ski patrols derailed a supply train proceeding to Murmansk and killed a number of Russian soldiers. MORE ATTACKS REPELLED RUSSIAN FLANKING MOVE FAILS. (Received This Day. 10,15 a.m.) HELSINKI, January 4. Sweeping the frozen lakes of the Karelian Isthmus with searchlights, the Finns frustrated an attempt" to outflank their positions. Artillery and machine-gun lire tore throunh the Russian ranks and broke the ice, throwing hundreds of the attackers into the water.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1940, Page 5
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