Siberi in, Caucasian, Moscow Garrison Men Being Brought to Karelian Front Helsinki, Dec, 30.
RESH troops from the Moscow garrison were reported to have been thrown against the Mannerheim Line today as a snow storm marked the 25th day of the momentous battle of men against fortifications.
The Moscow troops are composed of the same big men often exhibited the Red Square parades, and among them are the representa ti ies of the best of the Red Army.
Pursuing the tactics of exerting unremitting pressure at several points simultaneously, the Russians og assaulted the Karelian Isthmus front.
Heavy new concentrations were also massed at various points.
Today's assault on the Mannerheim Line marked the end of the first month of war between the Russians and the Finns.
Neutral military observers here estimated that the Russians had lost at least 100,000 men, dead, wounded or incapacitated by frozen limbs, and more than 300 tanks and 250 planes without achieving any important military successes despite the fact that the weather conditions had generally favoured the Russians.
Heavy pressure against the Finnish defence system at various points on the 60-mile Isthmus front in the form of an uninterrupted rain of shells fon the back areas, was followed up yesterday by a crucial battle on the Mannerheim Line. The Red Army wax reported to be massing large bodies of troops, estimated at over 100,000, behind their lines astride the main Leningrad-Viipuri road in preparation for new assaults Everything points to an accent: tion of the battle in new degrees of intensity with the frontal surge rected toward Viipur largest. city, which fan' industrial and shipping cet For over three weeks the Sovi almost unceasing efforts to tu the lett end of the Mannerheim Line have broken down and now the main force of the Russian drive has been diverted to the Fight end of the li before Thus far the extreme right ex of the Mannerheim system hi yan Gulf of Finland by con Loivisto Island, which also inland, bombarding "Russian This accounts for the Red Army chiefs' desperate effort to knock out these batteries, some having guns as Targe as ten inches, by aerial bombings, More than 500 air bombs have been dropped on Loivisto Island without putting the gims out of condition.
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