Stockholm, Dec. 3.
Soviet warplanes curtailed operations over Finland today to permit Germen citizens to evacuate peaceably, a Helsinki report stated today. The German steamer Donau is to leave with evacuees tomorrow. When German citizens leave Finland, extensive raids are expected, it was said, and industrial centres, ports and other important towns doubtlessly will be bombed.
Concentration of Soviet troops along the whole length of the Finnish frontier continued this evening and the Finnish Fleet was reported to be gathered, ready for action, between Bange Island and Tallinn, Marshal Baron Karl von Manner-helm, Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Army, spoke to his officers today and was reported to have told them, without hiding facts, that "Finland can lose everything but her honour."—Havas.
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