FINNISH AIMS
DESIRE FOR SECURE FRONTIER
LONDON, September 19.
British subjects arriving in Lisbon from 'inland express the opinion that Finland will continue to fight till she possesses the strategically valuable territory of eastern Karelia, which would cut off the Russians from Murmansk.
The Finns, it is said, realise that they have already lost more men than in the Russo-Finnish war, and that the Germans are likely to undertake the final assault on Leningrad themselves,
using a division which was brought from Norway. This division is most skilled in overcoming fixed defences. The fighting north of Ladoga will be left to the Finns, who will thus extend Russia’s defences by one-third. It is the reasonableness of this arrangement which has killed the tentative peace moves. The Finns do not like the German “new order,” but fear that a Russian victory, in the absence of an Anglo-American guarantee, would wipe them off the map.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1941, Page 6
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