SOVIET & FINLAND
TERRITORIAL DEMANDS INCREASED
WESTWARD EXTENSION OF FRONTIER.
DEVELOPMENT OF WAR BASE AT VIBORG.
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright, LONDON, March 21.
The Moscow correspondent of the Swedish newspaper “Tidningen” says that the Soviet Union has increased her territorial demands on Finland. The Kremlin informed Dr. Paasikivi when he arrived to ratify the Peace Treaty that it was necessary to extend the Russian frontiers farther westward than was originally planned. The Finns realise there is no alternative but to comply. The Moscow newspaper “Pravda” says that the city of Viborg on the Karelian Isthmus will be equipped as an important war base and will be able to accommodate the largest warships. of the Soviet's Baltic fleet within one month.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1940, Page 5
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