Moscow, Feb. 20.
The strategic importance of the Finnish Kotka Isles was stressed today in the "Krasny Flot," mouthpiece of the Soviet Admiralty, following rumours that the Reich had pur-caused from Finland a small island in the Finnish Gulf about 200 kilometres from Leningrad.
The newspaper stressed that capital-ships of the Deutschland type can incher in good harbours in the Kotka Isles and that such bases may be especially developed for use by seaplanes, German engineers, it says, had built a series of aerodromes in Finland by far beyond the normal needs of that country.
Referring to the remilitarization of he Aaland Isles, the "Krasny Flot" says "German imperialism has obamed the remilitarization of this archipelago."—Havas,
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