The Archive · 1939

Soviet Airwoman Shot Down

Berne, Dec. 3.

The body of a young woman was found in a Soviet warplane shot down by Finnish anti-aircraft batteries after it had mercilessly machinegunned Finnish civilians in Helsinki, the "Basler Nachrichten" and "Neue Zurcher Zeitung" reported today. The iS planes machine-gun bullets had claimed some twenty victims, mostly women and children, the Stockhol correspondent of the Basle new: paper asserted. The other Swi newspaper threw some more light on the subject, revealing that the plane when shot down was over Finnis!

Karelia All Swiss newspapers, in sympathy eric editorials, today emphasized the valour and efficiency of the Finnish soldiers in withstanding the massive Soviet machine of armed forces—

Havas.

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