LAWS OF WAR
VIOLATIONS BY RUSSIA ALLEGATIONS IN FINNISH NOTE. CONTINUED HEAVY FIGHTING. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) HELSINKI. .February 14. M. Tanner is sending a Note to all foreign governments detailing alleged Russian violations of international conventions on the conduct of war, including the use of poison gas and explosive bullets against civilians, the terrorisation of open towns, the bombing of hospitals and the use of prisoners of war and civilians as shields for Soviet infantry. The Note states that Finland has not taken reprisals. because she does not want to make the chances of peace difficult. The Note emphasises Finland’s repeated overtures to;- the establishment of a just peace and Russia's haughty rejection of them. Furious lighting continues along the Mannerheim Line. The situation at Summa is still serious. The Finns are holding all vital points. Forty planes dropped 250 on Porvoo yesterday, destroying fifteen buildings and damaging scores of others.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1940, Page 8
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