Married by the victorious Finns, the Russian armies on two fronts in the north-east continued their retreat yesterday, Reports from the Norwegian tron-tier state the Red Army in the Petsamo corridor is retiring rapidly. Roads in the area are said tered with "abandoned tanks, frozen-up inthe intense. cold, also farms and ammunition, The cold, it believed, has caused more castialties than fighting The Finnish counter-offensive on the Salla front is declared in thoritative circles here to be a "decided victory." Heroic exploit are reported, including the capture of 47 machine-guns by one detach ment. "Another unit claims to have nnihitated a battalion of 000 men, communique states that Soviet atigcks inthe Karelian Isthmus and along the Taipale River have beer Feptlsed with heavy losses, About 350 Russian planes are re~ ied to have taken part i Who: extensive air raids carried out on Thursday, jomphiets" Dropped By Finns Finnish warplanes also were active, but "engaged "in "bomphlet" rather than "bomb. throwing. The propaganda leaflets vere distributed. in the Leningrad region. They Informed the Soviet people that the true nets of the "Finnish conflict wore hidden from them, Marshal Mannerheim, Commander Chief of Finnish armed forces, received foreign press correspondents for the first time today and thanked them for aid already given Finland.
He also expressed the hope that they would inform the world large of the high morale and fighting spirit of hie troops.—Hava,
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