GARRISON SAFE
WITHDRAWAL FROM BJORKO. EFFECTED UNDER COVER. OF BLIZZARD. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) HELSINKI, February 27, A Finnish communique admits abandonment of the Bjorko Island fortress. The heroic garrison was short of supplies and crossed the straits over the ice, under cover of a night blizzard, and reached the Finnish lines.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1940, Page 5
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