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VOLUNTEERS ENROLLING IN LONDON GOING SOON TO FINLAND. MANY PARACHUTISTS KILLED LONDON. February 8. England has not allowed Finland’s cry to remain unanswered, university students, former officers, public school boys and even housewives are enrolling at the recruiting office of the Finnish Legation and will soon go to Finland. This morning’s dispatches from Helsinki state that the Russians .maintained their pressure on a 15-mile sector of the Mannerheim Line but gained only one mile and a half opposite Summa. Tile Finns killed and captured 71 parachutists, including female spies. The Finnis headquarters unofficially stale that the Russians have lost since the outbreak of the war 564 tanks, 308 aeroplanes, 203 guns, 294 machine-guns, 552 lorries and motor-cars and other material.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1940, Page 5
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