OVERWHELMING ODDS
FINLAND’S URGENT NEED OF HELP. EMPHASISED IN LONDON. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 29. Increasing attention is being paid in the Press to the position of the fighting on the Mannerheim Line, where the Finns are opposed by odds of 40 to 1. The “Daily Telegraph” says that for friends of freedom all over the world the urgent question is whether the men and armaments required to strengthen the Finnish lines will arrive in time. The newspaper recalls that the estimated number of volunteers Sweden could furnish does not exceed 10,000, and notes that its own correspondent in Finland puts the number required by Finland at a minimum of 30,000. Volunteers, the “Telegraph” adds, are on their way from this country and from others, but many more are needed, and at once. Finland has done all that heroism could do to save herself by her own exertions. Every free nation owes her a debt for her example and her exposure of the menace of tyranny. There should be no delay in payment. Time and the ■ change of war are unforgiving.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1940, Page 5
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