NEWS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1940, Page 6

NEWS BY RADIO

FINNISH PLANES OVER LENINGRAD

LEAFLETS AND PHOTOS DROPPED. STORIES OF RECENT FIGHTING. The following Daventry reports have been rebroadcast by the New Zealand National stations: — Finnish planes flew over Leningrad and dropped leaflets setting out the reply of the Finnish Foreign Minister to M Molotov. Photographs of Soviet planes shot down were also dropped. Russian planes raided the town of Tornio at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia. 350 miles from Helsinki. Two planes were shot down. A railway bridge two miles east of the town was damaged. Russian planes also raided Oulu, on the main railway system, apparently as part of a Soviet plan to attack railways and harbours with a view to stopping supplies. How the Finns routed the Russians in a recent engagement on the central front is described. The Finns had no artillery and worked in small patrols, first destroying the field kitchen, then supplies and the convoys. Captured Russian tanks were quickly sunk into the ground and made into excellent 'pill-boxes. Further aid for Finland is beinggiven by 60.000 Swedes, who have agreed to work next Saturday and give their wages. amounting to about £35.000, to Finland. It is expected that a Bill will be introduced in the United States Senate providing for a loan to Finland of £25,000,000 for the purchase of war supplies and armaments. THE WESTERN FRONT. The weather on the Western Front has improved. Allied planes carried out feur flights over Germany, penetrating to a depth of 250 miles. Many reconnaissance and photographic flights were carried out over the Siegfried Line. Patrol activity is reported in no-man's-land. The French broke up two German detachments. The Germans suffered heavy losses. Polish forces are expected to- be ready to take the field with the Allies at the beginning of the spring.