TE Finns today smashed the Russian offensive on this front after eight days of savage fighting without the loss of a foo! of ground.
In crushing the assault they broke up the movement! designed to flank the Mannerheim Line on the east side of the Peninsula, Thus, today the Finns were calm and confident, awaiting the next move on a front a few miles long, where the Russians were making efforts to cross the river at a spot 200 yards wide. Watching through a periscope, it was seen that the Russians were still on their own side of the front.
Both sides have lost heavily. The Russians, it was estimated, have suffered up to 2,000 dead and an unknown number of wounded. The Finnish losses have been astonishingly low in proportion although the losses in numbers have been heavy.
All along the Karelian front 3-inch, inch and 8-inch Russian shells crashed and exploded. Three out of four shells would usually explode, While the fourth would be a dud.
The Finns said that Russians were wasting ammunition and they wanted to know whether the Reds would stage another attack after the strange and grim fight in which a Finnish submarine participated. The Finnish submarine, the wor.d's smallest, with
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