Alarming and doubtless exag-goraled reports are now beginning to Circulate in Moscow and are begin hing to gain credence in the absence of any oficial denials or details what Is taking place in Pintand, tates the Moscow correspondent of "The Times, "These reports from abroad put Red Army casualties. at between 25,000 to 30,000 dead, and between 30,000 $0,000 " wounded, "frost-bitten, il, captured or deserted, Figures of that kind do not vopresent a calamity for an army 's9 large as the Red Army, but they lead to much table which does not rebound, to, the credit of the réxime, "The reports from the Finnish war sectors must have done considerable damage to the prestige of the Soviet Union as a miliary' power," "The Times" correspondent continues, The Soviet Government's policy of secrecy also prevents it from refute ing the most recent reports. of ser ous reverses in Central and Northern Finland, the ons parts at which thelt troops had made progress, "The latest reposts from Finland suggest that the Red Army may be
any hope of vielory until the spun, mable to reopen an offensive with by which time, mulch may have hap pened to improve Finland's position.
"It cannot be doubted that, the Soviet Government expected to have liquidated Finland's resistance before the weather became severe, and their failure may have internal and polit cal repercussions," the correspondent
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