VIBORG BATTERED
RUINED & DEVASTATED CITY BUT DEFENCE STILL HOLDING FIRM. POSITION ON ISTHMUS NOT REASSURING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.5(1 p.m.) LONDON. February 26. The British United Press Viborg correspondent says the evacuation of Viborg’s remaining citizens continues. The people are undismayed, as white-clad soldiers move up from the opposite direction, to occupy new lines ten miles south of the city. Whole blocks have been burnt down and the ruin and devastation exceeds anything seen in Spain, but the Railway Station is intact and trains are running. A Finnish communique announces that. Russian attacks were repulsed at many points. A spokesman in London admits that Finland’s position on the Karelian Isthmus is not reassuring and adds that the Russians have swung their front round and that the Finnish line has been redrawn to meet it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1940, Page 6
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