FINNS UNHAPPY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1941, Page 5

FINNS UNHAPPY

DESIRE TO END ALLIANCE WITH NAZIS HEAVY LOSSES SUFFERED. FOOD POSITION ALMOST DESPERATE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, August 30. The “Daily (Express” says that the Finns are trying to escape from their alliance with Hitler. Dispatches reaching London report that dissension has broken out between German and 'Finnish troops, and Field-Marshal Mannerheim has made a special visit to the front to settle the dispute. Commenting on the report that Finland is seeking a separate peace, the “Daily Telegraph’s” Stockholm correspondent says that Finland has already lost more heavily in the last nine weeks than in the whole of the previous 14 weeks’ war with Russia. Her food position in the coming winter will be almost desperate. “The Times” Stockholm correspondent says that the idea that when Viborg is captured the war will be practically over is rapidly spreading

throughout Finland. Finland is at present only yearning for her old frontiers and for peace. The German news agency says that Herr Hitler has conferred a bar to the Iron Cross on Field-Marshal Mannerheim. AIR FIGHTING SUPERIORITY CLAIMED BY RUSSIANS. MANY NAZI PLANES DESTROYED. (British Official Wireless.) . (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, August 31. A Russian overnight communique ( states that stubborn fighting continues along the whole front and adds: “On Thursday 29 German planes were shot down for the loss of ten of ours. On Wednesday, according to verified reports, 66 German planes were destroyed, not 41, as previously reported. The enemy has increased his air pressure in' the Leningrade area, where, however, he has met with an equally fierce resistance. During an attack on one of our aerodromes in this area on Wednesday, 23 German planes were shot down'while the Germans failed to find a single Soviet plane on the ground.”